This Christmas my mom gave me a check for $100. I started getting the itchy CL finger, and the next thing I knew I had bought a touring bike. I had this idea of trying to use the money my mom gave me and buying successively better and better bikes, until I got something I really wanted. Even though it's not "bike selling season", I decided to throw caution into the wind and list up the fully serviced bike. To my surprise, it sold within a few days of listing it.



Before I had even sold that bike, I already had another "in my sights".. I could tell from the pictures it was in good condition, but I was blown away when I saw it in person. This bike needed only a customary tune up, and was quickly sold, again within just a few days of listing the bike. On a cold day in the middle of the first storm we've seen here in California all winter.



I feel like I could have held out for more money on the second bike, but I'm glad I didn't because literally the night I sold that bike (to someone who was so excited about it they were grinning from ear to ear), I went and bought the closest thing I could think of to calling a "grail" bike for me.. a DBR Axis TT.. Diamondback's titanium frame mountain bike from the early 90s. As a big Diamondback fan, it's exciting to get a hold of their highest end frame they ever offered, and also to join the titanium club



I was imagining myself buying and flipping bikes all summer long and making some crazy trade or something, but in the end it only took a little seed money and flipping two bikes to end up with enough cash to justify buying something that normally would be way out of my price range.. and I still have $100 left over. So I'm back where I started! And I have another bike in my sights.. I mean how else am I going to afford the bling to put on this frame?