Originally Posted by bigbossman
I like the hunt to find them, and I like to wrench on them. I love the mechanical/engineering aspect of them. But once that is done, I lose interest in them and sell them off so I can buy and wrench some more. I almost never keep them for myself, and if I couldn't flip them I probably would stop acquiring them - unless I found sonmething special.
I feel the same way as the Bossman. I used to work in a bike shop more than 30 years ago. Loved it then but didn't get back into working on bikes until last summer. I too never keep any of the bikes I find for myself until about a month ago when I got a FREE Trek 760 with Campy "Victory" components from a guy in Berkeley. It wasn't exactly my size but I couldn't let this one leave. I'm still working on it with parts from here and there. Anyways, my wife likes that I work on bikes as a hobby as long as the stuff around the house gets done.
