Yeah Aaron you were totally in the right, don't sweat it. Sounds like drugs to me (not that it makes it better).

I passed on a sweet very similar Look this morning at a garage sale. The price, asked for with a straight face: $1650. Because I sure keep that much in cash while garage saleing.

I offered $170 with an equally straight face.

Ride report time:

I took it out for a spin today...nothing too major...I'm not a fan of the SRAM stuff, nothing new there, but it sure worked well. The bike is almost unnervingly light...it's lighter than my Merlin (or at least the build is; the Merlin has some older, heavier parts and heavier wheels) but I didn't enjoy the ride as much...it was less firm and more twitchy. I felt a lot more road vibration, and that was surprising given it had gatorskins. It felt more Colnago'ish on the one good descent I got going on with it. It climbed nicely, but I don't think it out performed my Merlin.

Overall...nice experience, but nothing jaw dropping either. Truthfully, I was expecting more because this was the lightest wheel set I've used. Perhaps it was the Gatorskins - I really don't care for those tires much.

Interesting and instructive story, thanks for sharing. I, too, have tolerated some sketchiness in my dealings with people who needed my help, so I'm not making any moral judgements here. But in my experience whatever level of sketchiness you tolerate in a transaction (or other relationship) simply resets that level of sketchiness to "normal," from which it can only climb.

I guess I'd tell the kid look, I wanted the bike, I bought the bike. If I decide to sell it, I'll give you a call. Now bug off.

but hey... I got that Zonda's!

That wasn't the cause...but I digress.


It turned out OK, but a hindsight Look clearly says risk-benefit analysis made this a non-starter. I really do feel badly for him, but at the same time I'm not his father or friend and I went through a good bit of grief at that point. I would clearly not be a good banker.