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Steel Charlie 08-16-23 10:24 AM

I Hate This Place ! !
 
Populated by a pack of demented enablers !

I don't even want to talk about it

mrv 08-16-23 10:29 AM


Originally Posted by Steel Charlie (Post 22986297)
Populated by a pack of demented enablers !

I don't even want to talk about it

... I beg to differ.

Maybe if you had one more double butted lugged 4130 ChroMo bicycle? I can help you out! I have a lovely Trek420 I'm sure is your size!

cheers!

squirtdad 08-16-23 10:35 AM


Originally Posted by Steel Charlie (Post 22986297)
Populated by a pack of demented enablers !

I don't even want to talk about it

you need a full hand
  • British 531 build,
  • Italian sl/slx build,
  • Japanese build....tange no 1 or miyata triple butted,
  • a custom bike,
  • and one wild card (french, swiss, mtn bike, 3 speed some thing quirky cool)

AdventureManCO 08-16-23 10:42 AM

Let's talk about Huffys and I'm sure you'll be cured in no time.

Kai Winters 08-16-23 10:45 AM

meh, don't care...

SurferRosa 08-16-23 11:07 AM


bikingshearer 08-16-23 11:16 AM


Originally Posted by Steel Charlie (Post 22986297)
Populated by a pack of demented enablers !

I don't even want to talk about it

You say that like it's a bad thing . . . . :innocent:

Bad Lag 08-16-23 11:41 AM


Originally Posted by Steel Charlie (Post 22986297)
Populated by a pack of demented enablers !

I don't even want to talk about it

Anyone who rides 50+ year old bikes is surely demented. The thing is, the people here, with their advice and recommendations and parts supplies, truly have enabled me to continue to ride my bike and I will be able to ride that bike for the rest of my life.

I'll just say THANKS for that and, indeed, we don't need to talk any more about it.

RiddleOfSteel 08-16-23 01:09 PM

I am giddily, dementedly helping keep old (and newer!) bikes on the road. Obviously I am a terrible humanitarian, though not as terrible as the guy who sends all the leftover-hoarded low-rent (for the US) parts to Africa to keep their stuff going. Don't know why he keeps coming back to Bike Works every Warehouse Sale!!!

gearbasher 08-16-23 01:13 PM


Originally Posted by squirtdad (Post 22986305)
you need a full hand
  • British 531 build,
  • Italian sl/slx build,
  • Japanese build....tange no 1 or miyata triple butted,
  • a custom bike,
  • and one wild card (french, swiss, mtn bike, 3 speed some thing quirky cool)

I guess I have a flush. 5 Italian bikes. TreTubi, SLX, TSX, TSX, PRX.

panzerwagon 08-16-23 02:58 PM


Originally Posted by gearbasher (Post 22986519)
I guess I have a flush. 5 Italian bikes. TreTubi, SLX, TSX, TSX, PRX.

No love for Cromor? :rolleyes:

Korina 08-16-23 03:10 PM


Originally Posted by panzerwagon (Post 22986628)
No love for Cromor? :rolleyes:

Cromor only pawn in game of life.

gearbasher 08-16-23 04:09 PM


Originally Posted by panzerwagon (Post 22986628)
No love for Cromor? :rolleyes:

Never owned a Cromor. I had 5 SLs and a Genius pass through my hands or should I say under my crotch.

John E 08-16-23 04:14 PM

How many have littermates, like my two Siegers, which are only 27 serial numbers apart? :)
Going mostly original parts and patina on one, resto-mod on the other.

John E 08-16-23 04:15 PM

American, Austrian, British, French, and Italian, and I did ride a Japanese bike for 20 years. :)

MaxKatt 08-16-23 05:44 PM


Originally Posted by Steel Charlie (Post 22986297)
Populated by a pack of demented enablers !

I don't even want to talk about it

_—————

Could be worse. They could be deplorables.

3alarmer 08-16-23 08:20 PM

.
...Cromor is the best, or they wouldn't call it Cromor

jethin 08-16-23 08:31 PM


Originally Posted by gearbasher (Post 22986519)
I guess I have a flush. 5 Italian bikes. TreTubi, SLX, TSX, TSX, PRX.

sorry man, that’s a casa piena.

squirtdad 08-16-23 09:31 PM


Originally Posted by Schweinhund (Post 22986357)
Demented, I concur, enablers, nah, we're all hoarders to some extent. some people hide it better.
BTW, I have the perfect British frame and fork for your CV acceptance build.
Handmade, British, Reynolds 531.

and the correct response is: What size? :D

bfuser5783920 08-16-23 09:35 PM

Yep, I’m with you! Sell all my funky Campy machines for one Chinese plastic bike…that’s what I’m talking about!

Lascauxcaveman 08-16-23 10:43 PM


Originally Posted by 3alarmer (Post 22986838)
.
...Cromor is the best, or they wouldn't call it Cromor

Cromor is OK, I guess. But it's no Tenax.

Or maybe it is? :foo:

bwilli88 08-17-23 12:06 AM


Originally Posted by squirtdad (Post 22986305)
you need a full hand
  • British 531 build,
  • Italian sl/slx build,
  • Japanese build....tange no 1 or miyata triple butted,
  • a custom bike,
  • and one wild card (french, swiss, mtn bike, 3 speed some thing quirky cool)

72 Witcomb & 72 Geoffrey Butler
No Italians yet
Centurion Pro-Tour, oops Tange 2 but what the heck!
J Henry Tandem
Gazelle OpaFiets by way of Cambodia then to USA built with SA 5 speed and drum brakes front and rear.

P!N20 08-17-23 04:35 AM


Originally Posted by panzerwagon (Post 22986628)
No love for Cromor? :rolleyes:

Matrix to keep the x theme going.

joesch 08-17-23 05:23 AM

Recommend a stable of diff bikes that covers multiple use cases (road, street, gravel, mtn) and diff frame types (steel, Ti, AL, CF)

1989Pre 08-17-23 06:29 AM

It's not really a disorder, so you may not actually be sick (the jury is still out on the rest of us, here). I have U.S., Taiwan, France, Italy and Britain. Now all I need is Lotus, Malvern Star and N.S.U. and I'll have Japan, Australia and Germany. I asked the United Nations, and they said what I was doing is perfectly fine.



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