Why? I need your input
05-05-08 | 06:50 PM
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Why? I need your input
I am super cautious about my belongings and really love to take care of them. I just got a new road bike Bianchi Fremont and there are some small scratches on it (dropout and small small others) for some reason i just look at them and get mad and just really get irritated, i really want to be the type of person that doesn't obsess over how pretty it is as long as it functions and rides well, i need your input and some encouraging words to help me get over this. Thanks guys.
05-05-08 | 06:53 PM
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Out fishing with Annie on his lap, a cigar in one hand and a ginger ale in the other, watching the sunset.
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From: South Florida
Bikes: Techna Wheelchair and a Sun EZ 3 Recumbent Trike
Easy.....
Accept the inevitable and realize that your bike is going to get scratched and dinged, or seal it in a nitrogen filled glass display case from a museum and never ride it again. Doesn't sound like much fun, does it?
Scratches and nicks are simply character and make it YOUR bike.
Accept the inevitable and realize that your bike is going to get scratched and dinged, or seal it in a nitrogen filled glass display case from a museum and never ride it again. Doesn't sound like much fun, does it?
Scratches and nicks are simply character and make it YOUR bike.
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. “He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”- Fredrick Nietzsche
"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." - Immanuel Kant
05-05-08 | 06:54 PM
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From: Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
Bikes: Douglas Touring Cross Wise, Urbanite Fixed Gear
Honestly, just ride a lot more. Eventually here will be a lot of scratches on your bike, and you just will stop caring. I was pissed when my friend knocked over my bike and it scratched the top tube, now I really don't give a **** at all.
Time, I guess.
Time, I guess.
05-05-08 | 07:05 PM
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Easy.....
Accept the inevitable and realize that your bike is going to get scratched and dinged, or seal it in a nitrogen filled glass display case from a museum and never ride it again. Doesn't sound like much fun, does it?
Scratches and nicks are simply character and make it YOUR bike.
Accept the inevitable and realize that your bike is going to get scratched and dinged, or seal it in a nitrogen filled glass display case from a museum and never ride it again. Doesn't sound like much fun, does it?
Scratches and nicks are simply character and make it YOUR bike.
05-05-08 | 07:46 PM
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bikes are meant to be ridden, not preserved in a show room. ride your bike and have fun. if you want to preserve the newness of your bike, take a lot of pictures and store them on your computer so you can look at it whenever you want, and then you can go look and your scratched and worn bike and take satisfaction in knowing you ride hard
05-06-08 | 12:24 AM
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From: alief houston texas
Bikes: masi speciale fixed (urrringe), haro f1 (black), haro x2 (red)
you'll baby it for a while but you'll accept scratches. if you care a whole lot then get lil touchup paints from autozone... dunno if those work or not...
wait no no touchup just ride it.
wait no no touchup just ride it.
