Originally Posted by
Dudelsack
When you buy a bike, you may think at the time you have found the ultimate machine, a bike for the ages, the last one you'll need for the rest of your life.
In two weeks you'll want a new bike anyway. It will be N+1.
Rinse and repeat until you run out of garage space.
There is a brief period of respite while you modify, adjust and add goodies to your new acquisition. For those of us who are into classic and vintage bicycles this period of acquisition can last for weeks or months. We may scatter the new bike and spend time cleaning, polishing and evaluating each part of the bicycle. There are many trips to eBay or the C&V forum to get the replacement for each component that is found to be wanting. This is not to say that if a dirt cheap barn find drops in our laps we won't snap it up and place it in line for rehabilitation but for the time being we are mostly happily distracted from the constant need for N+1.
Right now I am happily thrashing the new to me, Team Fuji!
Once it is roadable and ship shape in Bristol fashion, the monkey will once again be on my back.
