Confessions of an Evil Flipper
07-04-14 | 10:42 AM
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Auchen, I knew you were a great writer, but didn't realize you were an artist as well. Fabulous read. Enjoyed every word of it!
07-04-14 | 12:04 PM
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This could easily be the start of a work of fiction. 
Or might it be classified as non-nonfiction? 
In any event, it even has promise to be picked up by the Lifetime or Discovery Channel networks as the next hit reality series. "Tales of the Flipper" or "One Bike Never Too Many" or "Flippers Gone Rogue" or "To Flip or Not To Flip?"
Or might it be classified as non-nonfiction? In any event, it even has promise to be picked up by the Lifetime or Discovery Channel networks as the next hit reality series. "Tales of the Flipper" or "One Bike Never Too Many" or "Flippers Gone Rogue" or "To Flip or Not To Flip?"
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07-04-14 | 12:10 PM
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I turned you into to the LAB, Auchen. They are sending their SWAT team who will bust down your front door with a battering ram made from a Schwinn Varsity. They will bind you with black zip ties, many of them, and force you to watch while they load all of your bikes and hoarded parts into a van. They will leave you with a rusty Huffy mountain bike with a chain frozen into a zig-zag shape and a saddle with a rotting cover. Yes, and grip shifters that no linger click. They will be watching you from that point on. Watching you.
And he has is own reality TV show now???
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07-04-14 | 12:13 PM
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07-04-14 | 03:09 PM
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Auchen, the best posting EVER on any message board, and with hand-drawn illustrations, too! Thanks!
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1995 Bianchi Campione d'Italia, 1995 DeBernardi Thron
My C&V Bikes:
1972 Bottecchia Professional, 1972 Legnano Olympiade Record,
1982 Colnago Super, 1987 Bottecchia Team C-Record,
1988 Pinarello Montello, 1990 Masi Nuova Strada Super Record,
1995 Bianchi Campione d'Italia, 1995 DeBernardi Thron
07-04-14 | 03:32 PM
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[MENTION=111548]kehomer[/MENTION], [MENTION=159681]Bianchigirll[/MENTION], [MENTION=175208]gaucho777[/MENTION], [MENTION=128687]JJPistols[/MENTION] , [MENTION=137164]southpawboston[/MENTION] , [MENTION=190292]daf1009[/MENTION] , [MENTION=359104]CroMo Mike[/MENTION] -and anyone else I missed - Thank you all for your kindness and understanding. I feel that I have been vindicated for all my past transgressions.
Time to start on some new ones!
Time to start on some new ones!
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07-04-14 | 04:58 PM
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What's really bugs me about the price of old bikes is how everybody with an old POS bike now feels it is worth good money. If you go on CL these days you'll see an abundance of people convinced their old 10 speed Huffy or Free Spirit with rotted out tires, rusty chain and rock hard brake pads is now a collectors item and worth well over $100. Heck, people even seem to think their 90's era department store mountain bikes are worth something. It's one thing if your old bike is an Elgin or a Cannondale or even a Schwinn. Those are all bikes with value stemming either from their quality or their collectiblity. Just because something is old though does not make it either good or desirable.
07-04-14 | 07:59 PM
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Garages and basements across America and around the world are stuffed with OLD bikes. Their market value is seriously diminished by abundance alone. Consider other factors, and it goes to near zip for most of them. 
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1972 Bottecchia Professional, 1972 Legnano Olympiade Record,
1982 Colnago Super, 1987 Bottecchia Team C-Record,
1988 Pinarello Montello, 1990 Masi Nuova Strada Super Record,
1995 Bianchi Campione d'Italia, 1995 DeBernardi Thron
My C&V Bikes:
1972 Bottecchia Professional, 1972 Legnano Olympiade Record,
1982 Colnago Super, 1987 Bottecchia Team C-Record,
1988 Pinarello Montello, 1990 Masi Nuova Strada Super Record,
1995 Bianchi Campione d'Italia, 1995 DeBernardi Thron
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