Originally Posted by
Mad Honk
My progress on the Horror build was significantly impeded today by the War Department who insisted on my helping with widow cleaning. No bike work and a trip to the auto shop to do a four wheel brake replacement and again tomorrow for four new tires. It is a good thing I am a mechanic with mechanic friends or labor would kill me. Brake parts with my discount were $400 and tire are $1300. I am thinking my bike addiction is far cheaper than the cost of keeping a vehicle on the road. Cost for this repair would have been over $3K had I not been able to work in the repair shop for free. I am not complaining mind you but just saying my bike work had to take a back seat for a while. Smiles, MH
Right? Anytime I start getting into the costs of life
anywhere that are far and away from vintage bicycles, it is definitely refreshing going back to the bikes, and just how ultimately cheap they are. It would be a different game were we doing the electro-e-power carbon battery-shift bikes of today, but time has passed us by and, for the most part, the costs as well!
One time I added up all my bike purchases and averaged them out. I think it came out to somewhere around $80 a bike. Now, that might have changed with some of the later additions like the Crapamount frame, the Super Record donor bike and my latest green Trek 930. The Huffente blew the whole thing out of the sky...we don't even talk about it
But all those expensive ones are brought back down to earth w/ things like the
Clang find Trek, and some other gets from the co-op.
Mrs Le Grande has still been pretty sick, so we are still laying low over here, but I'm hoping I can make some good progress on the beauty queen this weekend.