Originally Posted by
Booger1
I have a custom made 1978 Shogun touring bike(531 triple butted triangle,double butted everything else) that I've ridden everyday for 32 years,still going strong.It only has a few hundred thousand mile on it....LOL!
It cost $500 in 1978 money,worth every penny.It's been just about everywhere west of the Mississippi,never let me down.A grown man is going to cry if/when I have to part with it.
On the other side of that coin, I bought a custom-made, lugged steel, disk brake, multi-surface touring frame earlier this year and rode it exactly twice before returning it for a refund, due to failure of the fork.
I had hoped it would be the last bike I bought for a long, long time, if not my life, but sometimes things don't work out the way you plan.