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Old 01-03-08 | 09:54 PM
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Egads I've just wandered into the thirtysomething forum!





I regret not keeping my full Micronauts, G.I. Joe, and Matchbox car sets. I also mourn the Chainmail D&D, AD&D, and Traveller complete rules I gave away. Met these writers, Eastman and Laird. They signed and gave me an early print of something they called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I traded later for a mint copy of Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns (signed) sold it for $50.00. I do not regret, however, giving these things away and moving on to bikes and girls.

I miss my first bike. It was stolen the first time I ever snuck away to meet my first gf at the mall. I guess that first kiss made up for it.

I still miss the bike more than her. It was my first ten-speed, I felt like a badass.
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I regret not keeping my full Micronauts, G.I. Joe, and Matchbox car sets. I also mourn the Chainmail D&D, AD&D, and Traveller complete rules I gave away. Met these writers, Eastman and Laird. They signed and gave me an early print of something they called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I traded later for a mint copy of Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns (signed) sold it for $50.00. I do not regret, however, giving these things away and moving on to bikes and girls.

I miss my first bike. It was stolen the first time I ever snuck away to meet my first gf at the mall. I guess that first kiss made up for it.

I still miss the bike more than her. It was my first ten-speed, I felt like a badass
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Old 01-03-08 | 10:00 PM
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UGH!!! Makes me sick seeing that knowing how it ended up.

That shot does remind me of it's mixed-breed poor trash cousin...

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I guess I regret stripping that one of it's "600" glory and letting it slightly rust and letting the decals rub off making it spell "ASSO"
my treviso had campagmano it it.

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Old 01-03-08 | 10:03 PM
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Broke up with a gorgeous fiancé in November. And she was even sort of ok with the whole bicycle thing!



And I'm not (quite) thirty (yet)!
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Old 01-04-08 | 02:04 AM
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I was styin' in 1990. Had 3 different girls waiting at the finish...all wanting my Ocean Pacific shirt from 1979. They tore it off me...it was the last I ever saw of it.
At least something good happened that day!! having that shirt stolen I mean!!
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Old 01-04-08 | 07:57 AM
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my treviso had campagmano it it.

Awww, look at that short little head tube. Isn't it cute?
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Awww, look at that short little head tube. Isn't it cute?
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Old 01-04-08 | 08:09 AM
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I've recently discovered that I can be pretty comfortable on a 58cm top tube with a 120mm stem. In another three years, when I replace my current frame, I might downsize to get a shorter head tube to get a bit lower
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I don't know what I could have been thinking. Hell, I don't know what she was thinking either...
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Old 01-04-08 | 12:13 PM
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I officially regret not fulfilling my ex-girlfriend's wishes when, in the heat of passion, she screamed out "**** my ***!"

I don't know what I could have been thinking. Hell, I don't know what she was thinking either...

That's called "backwards thinking" Bob. Good call.
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