Exactly, and people being what they are often don't make good choices.

My point to the ones who feel "all" or "most" people are bastards/d-bags is that some may be, but you'll be a happier person if you can remember that being miserable is their problem, and learn not to make it yours.

BTW, I was born and raised in St Pete and still live there part of the time. Getting too damn hot for me most of the year though.

Well now I have bigger problems to complain about, like not being able to go to Spokane next week after all. My friend's dad got rid of his last buddy pass of the month last week & I jyst got the dough for the ticket today :( AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH LETDOWN OF THE CENTURY!!! Maybe sometime early next semester before it gets too cold. Goshdangdiddlydarnit!


Hey small world, my dad grew up in St Pete & he went to/my brother goes to Stetson School of Law.

That's too bad. When you do get here, we'll get you out for some good riding for sure.

Yeah, but its a wet heat! Oh, wait a minute, that doesn't work does it??:D Yes, its hot. I always say I get tired of the three "h"s - heat, humidity, and hurricanes - then I head north in August to get a break.

Do it if you can man, sometimes it is less expensive than living in the US. You may never have another chance outside of school to do something like it. I was also a screw up in high school, and got really lucky getting into OU. I didn't understand life can be serious business when I was in high school, and did tons of stuff I probably shouldn't have, killed a lot of brain cells, and never went to class. It was a good time though, and is part of what made me who I am today.

I came to Germany first in 2005/2006 with an exchange program, I met my girlfriend (future wife, but don't tell her yet ;P), and ended up coming back. I now study medicine at one of the best medical universities in the world for 104 Euros per semester!! My parents, hard work, and a bit of luck (or whatever), came together to make my current situation possible, but none of it would have ever happened had I decided to stay in Oklahoma. Now I am saving a ton of money by not going to med school in the US, and have a mini mountain to ride on as my backyard =)

i really really like how this thread turned out. it makes me smile.

*Sniff*

It should be a Hallmark Special.

'Night John-Boy . . . .

:hug:

One time I bought a pair of Oury lock-on grips from an online company that also sells on Ebay. Then for some reason all the talk about supporting your LBS I read about every now and then here and elsewhere made me feel a bit guilty. So on a matter of principle, I cancelled my Ebay purchase, and the shop was very gracious to do it. (I still do business with them from time to time.) I then went to the closest LBS that I've frequented in the past for their services. They didn't have the Oury grips in my color but said they could get it for me. It was a few dollars more--no big deal. I was told it would come in a few days or next week (don't remember). It ended up coming in a bit later than expected, and on top of that I paid a bit more. I wasn't very impressed. Many, many years ago when I was relatively new to online shopping, I purchased expensive parts from them. Looking back, I could have saved loads of money if I knew about online prices.

Many of us want to support our LBS, but we also want to be money-wise. I'll purchase some stuff every once in a while from a bike store because it's more convenient or they carry it, but also to establish relations. But shopping online gives me more buying power.

I've bought a bunch of Alivio stuff, 8-speed drivetrain components etc., basically things that have fallen out of favor in recent years (all new btw) on fleabay, really cheap.
Higher end stuff not so much.

Thinking back on the bike I put together in January, every part but the tires and chain wound up being ordered online. Of those parts I bought online, I checked local bike shops first for everything but the headset spacers.

The chain I purchased locally wound being up exactly twice the online price - the most expensive part of the drive train in fact, and I bought a nylon water bottle cage there also, just because I liked the shop owner.

Marzocchi Micro TST 44 for $320 shipped from huckandroll, granted a kind member here gave me the code to a $50 off coupon for the site so it was really $370 (at the time it retailed for something like $630). Can't remember how much my XCT535 frame retailed for but I got it for $350 shipped from wheelworld, I want to say the frame was originally in the mid $600s or so?

The last closeout deal I saw at my LBS was a Dart 3 fork for $90.

Say it isn't so. Generation X is a bunch of pampered, whiny, incompetent, ingrates. I deal with it everyday. Same reason shows like "Insider", "Biggest Loser", "Swamp People", "Fashion Star", and "IceT loves Coco" are on TV. Same reason Obama is in office. The average person is uninformed, ignorant and incapable of correcting themselves. Buy something on the internet and if it is junk or you can't install it then live and learn. Pay a 100% markup at your local LBS because the owner had no business plan when opening and can't manage his inventory or payroll but then feel good about yourself for supporting the local guy. Fine. BTW, if you don't like the internet, move the f*** to China.

http://robinbrown.co.uk/wp-content/u...-facepalm1.jpg

Hell of a first post there champ.

Yeah, and you're not whiny at all...

I got my 520 by means of lay away at my LBS, since then I've been preparing for my CC trip this fall. The only things I've got offline are the things they didn't carry, Tubus racks, Ortlieb bags. Everything else I've gotten from them even if I could save a few bucks online. I even delivered a pizza on my bike,(I cook pizza for cash), last week. The first time anyone has ever brought them a pizza on a bike! The Mechanic rebuild my front hub for free, even though I offered to pay, and he told me right before I leave for my trip to come down to his house and he will show me how to fully take apart my bike and put it back together again. Going to my LBS is generally the highlight of my week, I work 60 hours at a low wage job saving money for my CC trip. They know I'm not rich and always work with me when they can, and I always bring them my business. If I only got things online I wouldn't have the extra's you get from being loyal to a LBS. Expert advice and what not!
When I move to Oregon I'll find another shop and be just as loyal, all part of the fun!

You see gentlemen, here we have another tragic textbook example of what happens when the subject is deprived of all forms of human love and affection. Truly sad.

You must be old as dirt to be whining about Gen X.

but they are happy, unlike a certain grumpy gus.......( who seems to be trollin')

Yeah, good one. Just because I don't hang around posting on forums all day doesn't mean I'm not informed.

No. I just get tired of every person born before 1960 complaining about technology. "Well Goooooolleee Andy I was just down at the fillin' station with ****er playin' on the two-way radio." People shop on the internet. It's easy, convenient, and many times cheaper. Time for the old B&M stores to tighten it up or go the way of Borders Books and soon to be Barnes & Noble.

No but I bet my paying my taxes this year has partially lined your wallet.

What has big ears, a large pointy nose, & lives under a bridge?

This guy^^

no, but spewing all that crap does. (still think you are trollin', but it's fun to respond)

Not as funny as the Road Cycling forum
 

I came here looking for mt. bike information. How can anyone pass up a thread titled "How to be a jackass"? I should have passed it up because the OP was lacking BG panties regarding rude customers. I have a nice road bike purchased locally from a shop I can appreciate. Good prices, great service and competent staff abound there. Throw in a flame about the post and as I said it's not as funny as the Road forum. But I should have said Generation Y, not X.

I usually buy something at the lbs when I stop in, but not always. Typically if I ask them for advice I'll buy something from them. The most recent time I didn't but that was because it was a "bring your bike back in and we'll see what size you need" kind of thing (a FD shim that I knew what size I wanted but they weren't sure whether the numbers on the part were for the size of tubing or size it'd shim it to with the shims they had laying around) and I haven't had time to bring the bike back in yet.

So now we observe the subject (which we will refer to as bdswest) in a desperate attempt to justify his maniacal ravings, indeed in an effort to convince himself that he is an emotionally healthy, well adjusted individual. However, with heartbreaking predictability, he accomplishes quite the opposite, only managing to reveal the true extent of his psychosis.

This type of individual is pathologically incapable of heeding the first lesson of the proverbial man trapped in a hole, unable to climb out:

Stop digging.

Kind of reminds me of Pete Fagerlin, but completely lacking in credibility & purpose.

So basically just another troll:lol: