I spend too much time looking at bikes/parts on the internet.
07-15-05, 12:49 PM
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I spend too much time looking at bikes/parts on the internet.
Whenever I'm sitting at home and kinda bored, I'll surf around the internet and look for good deals on components, or look at bikes and try to decide what I want to buy when I've got a bit more money. Currently, I want to get one of these, but I might change my mind by the time I have $3000 to spend on it. I'll probably never save $3000 anyway, I'll keep blowing it in small chunks on parts and upgrades for my current bike.
07-15-05, 01:04 PM
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Originally Posted by notfred
Whenever I'm sitting at home and kinda bored, I'll surf around the internet and look for good deals on components, or look at bikes and try to decide what I want to buy when I've got a bit more money. Currently, I want to get one of these, but I might change my mind by the time I have $3000 to spend on it. I'll probably never save $3000 anyway, I'll keep blowing it in small chunks on parts and upgrades for my current bike.
(If I'd have 3000 bucks to spend on a bike I'd go with a Kona Coiler Deelux).
07-15-05, 01:30 PM
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There's other things to do? (well, besides actually riding )
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when i am really bored i just try to put togather the best bike, like pick out the most expensive components. and then i add it up, and say"wooooow." i never saved any of my creations, i will the next one i put togather.
07-15-05, 01:44 PM
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Originally Posted by zx108
when i am really bored i just try to put togather the best bike, like pick out the most expensive components. and then i add it up, and say"wooooow." i never saved any of my creations, i will the next one i put togather.
I build up $7,000 bikes all the time.
07-15-05, 06:26 PM
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Originally Posted by zx108
when i am really bored i just try to put togather the best bike, like pick out the most expensive components. and then i add it up, and say"wooooow." i never saved any of my creations, i will the next one i put togather.
I guess im not the only one. Haha. I do it all the time on BeyondBikes.com
07-15-05, 06:52 PM
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Heh.. doing that actually saved me a chunk of money recently. I had a RockShox Reba Team with PopLoc (ok, not exactly a _dream_ fork, but nice) in my shopping cart at Jenson, left over from some 'fantasy shopping'. Anyway, a few days later, they jacked the price up by $150, but because the item was already in my cart, I was able to check out at the old price, plus the 10% discount they had at the time.
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07-15-05, 07:49 PM
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Originally Posted by notfred
Whenever I'm sitting at home and kinda bored, I'll surf around the internet and look for good deals ...
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"The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man's metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well." Ivan Illich ('Energy and Equity')1974
07-16-05, 08:48 AM
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Originally Posted by edf825
Bicycle porn. Hells yeah.
