The enemy has been identified...
05-02-07 | 07:07 AM
#1
The enemy has been identified...
...and the Vintage Bicycle Liberation Front (VBLF) is enlisting recruits. What's our plan of action?
https://philadelphia.craigslist.org/bik/322758213.html
https://philadelphia.craigslist.org/bik/322758213.html
Don't want that old bike anymore? This art student does!
Reply to: sale-322758213@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-05-02, 3:38AM EDT
Do you have an old bike sitting and growing rust in your basement? Maybe it's bonding with dust bunnies in some corner of your apartment? Locked to a pole outside and hasn't been lovingly ridden in months? Maybe you just have a bunch of old bike parts sitting around that you have no use for anymore. Maybe that hot pink bike you rode as a kid is still sitting in your garage at home and your parents want to get rid of it. Perhaps you know a group of crazy kids who have decided that it wasn't cool to be bike messengers anymore.
Well you may not want these things anymore, but I do! I need a good variety of bikes and bike parts for an art project that I plan to complete this summer. So if anyone has any kind of bike (really, ANY kind, any size, even ones that look horrible and might have had a hacksaw taken to them. I don't care). Don't leave that sad old bike sitting by it's lonesome for the rest of it's life. Donate it to an artistic cause!
I am more than willing to come and pick up the bike/parts wherever you may be stashing them (as long as they arn't hidden in say, wisconsin...) Thanks in advance!
Reply to: sale-322758213@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-05-02, 3:38AM EDT
Do you have an old bike sitting and growing rust in your basement? Maybe it's bonding with dust bunnies in some corner of your apartment? Locked to a pole outside and hasn't been lovingly ridden in months? Maybe you just have a bunch of old bike parts sitting around that you have no use for anymore. Maybe that hot pink bike you rode as a kid is still sitting in your garage at home and your parents want to get rid of it. Perhaps you know a group of crazy kids who have decided that it wasn't cool to be bike messengers anymore.
Well you may not want these things anymore, but I do! I need a good variety of bikes and bike parts for an art project that I plan to complete this summer. So if anyone has any kind of bike (really, ANY kind, any size, even ones that look horrible and might have had a hacksaw taken to them. I don't care). Don't leave that sad old bike sitting by it's lonesome for the rest of it's life. Donate it to an artistic cause!
I am more than willing to come and pick up the bike/parts wherever you may be stashing them (as long as they arn't hidden in say, wisconsin...) Thanks in advance!
05-02-07 | 07:37 AM
#2
The Legitimiser
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From: Southampton, UK
Bikes: Gazelle Trim Trophy, EG Bates Track Bike, HR Bates Cantiflex bike, Nigel Dean fixed gear conversion, Raleigh Royal, Falcon Westminster.
If he was anywhere near me, I'd call the guy, offer him all the crappy worthless department store MTB's that I always have on hand, in exchange for him letting me take a look at what he gets given, so he doesn't cut up anything great. Then I'd offer to share the money we made on any nice things he got that I was able to sell.
05-02-07 | 07:51 AM
#3
Originally Posted by Sammyboy
If he was anywhere near me, I'd call the guy, offer him all the crappy worthless department store MTB's that I always have on hand, in exchange for him letting me take a look at what he gets given, so he doesn't cut up anything great. Then I'd offer to share the money we made on any nice things he got that I was able to sell.
(Have to admit, though, it's a clever plan!)
05-02-07 | 07:56 AM
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Hey, is this tolfan?
If this person is not a BF member--they need to be!
East Hill
If this person is not a BF member--they need to be!
East Hill
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05-02-07 | 08:07 AM
#5
The Legitimiser
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From: Southampton, UK
Bikes: Gazelle Trim Trophy, EG Bates Track Bike, HR Bates Cantiflex bike, Nigel Dean fixed gear conversion, Raleigh Royal, Falcon Westminster.
Originally Posted by JunkYardBike
Traitor!
(Have to admit, though, it's a clever plan!)
(Have to admit, though, it's a clever plan!)
05-02-07 | 08:29 AM
#6
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Originally Posted by East Hill
Hey, is this tolfan?
If this person is not a BF member--they need to be!
East Hill
If this person is not a BF member--they need to be!
East Hill
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05-02-07 | 08:39 AM
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From: Madison, Wisconsin
Bikes: 2000 Litespeed Classic, 1984 Schwinn LeTour, 1998 Gary Fisher Marlin, 1969 Hercules, 1977 Sekai 5000 Superlite, 1993 Koga-Myata TerraLiner, 2013 Trek Farley.
Turning junked bikes into art? Sorry JYB, I like it!
This isn't the enemy ... the enemy drives on four wheels.
Too bad the art student won't come to Wisconsin. We have a lot of junked bikes here in Madison. And ones that should be - including a couple I ride!
This isn't the enemy ... the enemy drives on four wheels.
Too bad the art student won't come to Wisconsin. We have a lot of junked bikes here in Madison. And ones that should be - including a couple I ride!
05-02-07 | 09:02 AM
#8
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From: Oklahoma City
Bikes: Canondale LL Bean, Criterium; both MY Schwinn Volare's, Voyageur 11.8; Holdsworth; Bob Jackson; Raleigh Super Course Mk II and Super Course Racing USA; Trek 1500
The "art thingy" is a simple rue. He's a vintage bike nut trying to cash in! ha ha
Last edited by OrangeOkie; 05-02-07 at 09:47 AM.
05-02-07 | 09:22 AM
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From: Belgium
Bikes: ca.1975 Gitane Interclub - 90's Colnago Master Competition- ca.'84 Merckx Corsa - '77 Groene Leeuw - ca. '78 Guerciotti - ca.1984 L'Express - 1974 Gitane 'Super Olympic' - Peugeot 1981 PXN10 - 1975 Peugeot PR10 -1974 Norta -1974 Peugeot PX10 LE
(sigh) art students - now there's an old almost forgotten enemy! (Yes I must admit, in some things,
once a punk, always a punk).
once a punk, always a punk).
05-02-07 | 09:24 AM
#10
Originally Posted by Sammyboy
My way, everybody wins. Art is a good thing, and too many dept store MTB frames in my garden isn't!
But ART aside, I recall seeing a site that showed how to make a bike trailer out of old forks and a couple other frame parts welded or bolted up.
I lost the link.
Seemed like a way to make something useful (and it could become artistic, too, like a third-world jitney) out of junky old scrap metal donors. After all the practical use has been wrung out of them, the really useless leftovers can be made into sculpture...or whatever. It might even give some art students a practical career path (spoken by a former art student).
05-02-07 | 09:26 AM
#11
Originally Posted by OrangeOkie
The "art thingy" is a smple rue. He's a vintage bike nut trying to cash in! ha ha
05-02-07 | 09:45 AM
#12
Originally Posted by BlankCrows
I agree. That's a helluva scam. Not even a picture of any sample artwork in that ad. Most artists love to show off their work.
05-02-07 | 10:20 AM
#13
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From: Amish Country
Bikes: have about 30 bikes right now
Thats not me east hill. I am thinking about giving the guy the scrap I was going to take to the metal yard.I sell bikes on the philly list sometimes and could take the stuff along on the next sale run. If he is a collector or shop scaming I would like to know. If he is for real I would like to cut a deal to save any classics worth saving.
05-02-07 | 10:52 AM
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Lanky Lass
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Originally Posted by tolfan
Thats not me east hill. I am thinking about giving the guy the scrap I was going to take to the metal yard.I sell bikes on the philly list sometimes and could take the stuff along on the next sale run. If he is a collector or shop scaming I would like to know. If he is for real I would like to cut a deal to save any classics worth saving.
East Hill
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