Lucky... and hoardy.

Like me.

Selling the polished Litespeed classic. It fit and rode nice....

Mine was a 1991/92 also. One of a kind as far as I could figure out. Three S's on top of the fork crown. Never saw another with that type fork crown. True Temper tubes.

Still missing my cannondale black lightning. Sold it to a friend and he's not ready to sell it back. Bastard. He doesn't even ride it.

No, no regrets here :-)

In 1984, I was buying a nice frame and I had it narrowed down to a Paramount or a Richard Sachs. I bought the Paramount, nice frame and I still have it- but would be totally cool to have a mid 80s Sachs.

I passed up a nice Waterford 50th anniversary Paramount being sold in La Jolla early this year in my size for under $1000. It was too similar in configuration to my Tommasini - instead of having 1 gorgeous Italian classic steel steed with friction shifting and not very wide range gearing, I would have had two - one Italian Classic, one American one. I have since used the same cash to buy both my Trek Y-foil, and my Paramount PDG Series 7 with a modern 9x3 wide range drive train. Not as elegant for sure, but each of these serves a purpose for me that the Waterford Paramount would not have - at the expense of the eye candy.

I turned down a pair of tickets to "The Last Waltz". Not a huge regret though.

Not riding for more than 30 years.

Okay, how would you translate it?

Good one! In my case, not riding for about 10 years after getting my driver's license.

I regret selling my '68 Camaro SS/RS while in college 35 yrs ago.

I wish I still had my 68 fastback Mustang with the cobra engine that was an exact duplicate of the one Steve McQueen drove in Bullet. Boo hoo. I can't believe I sold it in 1981 for $2000. Damn...................

"Things without all recourse should be without regret. What's done, is done."

Hmm. I think I'd have to rewrite the whole thing as well ;)

Selling a decal-less '73-ish Gitane TdF I had bought for $75 - had high-flange Nuovo Record hubs with tied and soldered spokes, and it was FAST, but I was pursuing PX-10s. That was a great bike ath handled well, and I shoulda kept it. What a maroon ...

Selling a c.1958 Raleigh Lenton Gran Prix that was box stock - the ONLY change was a replaced inner tube.

Biggest regret - selling the 531-tubed Raleigh that was probably an early Competition or not so documented Gran Sport. Had traces of lagoon blue and white under the many layers of housepaint and rattlecan blue, black and green. Nervex Pro lugs, relatively plain box crown, Huret tips and dropouts, no chrome, some minor dents - but it was free, plucked from a trash heap by the side of the road, and JUST my size. It even came with a set of Stronglight 93 cranks with a 42T ring someone had drilled. I built it up as a single speed, then it was a 10-speed, then a 14-speed, then a fixed-gear ... it was the perfect mad scientist experimental platform, it rode well, it handled bigger tires, it was stealthy, and it was just a great bike. Alas, in an ill-advised drive to simplify my life by reducing what I own, I sold it via ebay to some guy in Canada. I still miss that bike ...

I threw my Zefal "double shot" floor pump in the trash due to a gasket leak. It had 2 different sized barrels each with their own plastic gaskets on the plunger. I looked for replacements but never found any. About a year later was looking on French bike parts (Zefal dealer) website "XX Cycles" and saw the gasket kit available for $3! I was bummed because, that pump, when functioning properly could take a bike tire up to full pressure in like 15-25 strokes.

Who said that Ed? I concur.

I only have one regret. And it involves one of the most beautiful women I have ever known. Half Japanese, half Korean. A model.
And the most genuine, sweetest girl I've ever met, aside from my wife.
Long before I got married.
And an opportunity presented itself which took me completely by surprise.
First and only time in my life I was too drunk to ….do it.
That, I regret.
Not much else.
Bikes? Feh...

Beat Me To It...
 

...my exact first thoughts.




I have no regrets with regard to "things", except holding them too closely. My regrets center around people...

Shakespeare.

Another of my 'favorites' from him, "There is the soul of goodness in things evil, would men but observingly distill it out." I just used that one not 15 minutes ago in discussion with a neighbor. Mum having her Masters in Shakespeare probably primed me ;) .