Originally Posted by
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If I recall, the bike looks great but when examined closely, is found to be one of those vehicles that were to be retired via an earlier economic stimulus initiative, where papers were signed after the PO certified, under penalty of perjury, that the entire contents of the provided fast-setting concrete mix container were in fact poured into the frame, or until the frame was full.
Many such cycles clog the Craigslist listings, since the cycles were never required to have been subsequently crushed, as were the cars with similarly-treated engine blocks.
It gives one the willies to think of what our local police departments must have committed to do to earn their share of the stimulus money.
But no one ever discusses that.
that's funny. That was a big fiasco but seems to have been forgotten now. I remember I was unfortunately in the market for new van at the time and walking around a Toyota dealer I couldn't figure out why they had all these ok looking cars that looked a bit under my price range. then I realized they all had something like c4c or cc on the windshield.
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