I only bought gas once since getting injured. The station attached to the grocery store has the lowest prices around plus I get a discount for buying groceries. When I filled up last time I got 40 cents off per gallon so I paid $5.29. It has gone up since then but it might have gone back down a little. Over $6.00 all over town.

I'm no expert, but that could be the book value of stuff that's been depreciated out.

Back when I first collected watches in the 1990s, Mrs. GJ wanted to have them appraised by a jeweler so we could insure them. The appraisal was nonsense, though, because the watches had little intrinsic value and only really had value to collectors.

Could be.

What assets would a bike builder have - some tubes, component parts, tools? Very little value in that kind of stuff at garage sale prices. Probably buying materials and parts as needed, so no big stockpiles.

The last couple times I rode from home during the week, I ran afoul of the "kids getting out of school" traffic. Too many cars, and probably not paying enough attention to the old guy on the bike. Alameda de las Pulgas has SIX schools in what amounts to the last 2.5 miles of my return trip, and it seems like they stagger their inmate release times to make sure the traffic jam lasts a long time. What this adds up to is that if I don't get out on the road before about 1 PM, I WILL be stuck in that traffic.

I cannot wait for school to be out for the summer!!!

Anyhow, because of this, the last two days I rode ITG, having missed my window. Yesterday I did the Greatest London Loop, which include s the Leith Hill climb, which I gather is sort of a benchmark climb for people living in the South of England. I hadn't intended to, and I sure didn't think I was going to, but I managed a PR on the climb, which I've done at last 10 times before. Gratifying, since I'm not getting any younger! Turns out there is some advantage to having been fat and lazy for years, in that I can still snag PRs at 68, because I am faster and more fit now than when I was younger!!



Kinda ironic that it was a sunny day IRL, but I got rained on in the virtual world.

Yeah - it would cost a lot to replace with new, but may not have a lot of current market value. Torches, miters, framing jigs. Litespeed back in the 90s was doing a lot of very specialized tube shaping, but I don't know how much Lynskey was doing on their own and how much they were having done. Saddest line for me was where it said their troubles started when David Lynskey got sick. Small companies that are very dependent on one or two key people, who are not getting any younger, seem very vulnerable.

I believe that Ti welding requires VERY specialized equipment, plus fancy machines to miter the tubes, Probably quite expensive.

ya i figured they had a pretty sweet shop. and that it was worth something (in its current condition).

have any of you guys ever played with a programmable CNC? We used to have one here back in the scrappy days when most of the rev was from writing for grants. They are pretty sweet.

We know.

The kid had it coming to him, I'm sure

Expensive to buy, but cheap when you sell.

Buy low sell high

Drew from Engin in Chestnut Hill has different machines for each part of the frame. One of them is a lathe from the Department of the Navy that is from the 1950s. He gave Eileen and I a tour of the shop, which is in his parents’ former carpet cleaning business. Pretty amazing. I believe he now mostly machines parts for others.

I don’t know how many (If any) bikes he’s building these days.

Sage advice.

buy and hold for a long time. low/high dont mean much when u zoom out the lens

Is he slowing down? I suppose I can look at Bilenky.

Southbound Service Plaza on the Northeast extension of the Pennsylvania turnpike. Sunoco gas.

Which was $5.50 at the local Sunoco.

Not bankruptcy advice.
Yes, but if the equipment is all several years old they may have claimed most of it was depreciated out for tax purposes according to amortization schedules. Not bankruptcy advice.

Slow night. Everyone must be napping.

Nope. But today I learned you're not allowed to take a nap in a U-haul.

“Customer and any Authorized Driver shall not: Use Equipment as a residential dwelling (as defined by law in the applicable jurisdiction) or for residential purposes, including sleeping in Equipment, using Equipment as living or napping quarters, congregating with others in Equipment, or any other similar conduct consistent with using Equipment for residential purposes;”

How is quarters defined here? Does a passenger dozing off in the seat count?

I always wondered about motorhomes and conversion vans. Surely it’s not legal to sleep in the back while moving.

It's not?