Why do you want that bike?

[The History Man]

This is turning into four yorkshiremen.......

i did the Leicester Mercury evening round mon-sat 64-70 papers and two bags on a sunday morning.

 

[Stressed]

I would've been a foot taller but for the Sunday round

 

[BoyBurning]

I got 3.50 a week, five days after school, plus Saturday morning. If I covered the morning I got an extra 2 quid a week as were less houses. Route was around six miles with a swap to pick up second bag for last ten or so houses. After a year of being flawless I got taken to one side, and very solemnly told that they were so impressed with my efforts they were going to give me a raise of fifty pence a week. Four quid didn't buy much back then. Took me a year saving up for my Onza pedals, and the day after I fitted them I blew up my xt rear mech. Thirty seven quid I had to borrow off the folks that day. My first experience of being in debt.

 

[mk one]

Ah, paper rounds, all that has stuck with me is memories of cold, dark, wet mornings, dressed in full non-breathable waterproofs with a bag full of large papers, most with magazines inside. Did get to borrow a bike once, rod brakes, though the bag was so heavy it was unrideable, at least in the direction i wanted to go.

Oh, and the bikes i have at the moment are pretty much a mix of bikes i saw in catalogues and magazines bitd and ones i have discovered since which i just wanted to try/compare to others.

 

[al]

I just like weird sh*t me.


al

 

[yakboy]

I just like weird sh*t me.


al

Well said

 

[longun]

I got 2.50 for a sunday.... . Shoulders paying for it now haha

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Lol you guys didn't deliver papers in a Canadian winter... Try dragging the Saturday suppliments through several feet of snow at 6am, before the plows have been around! I wouldn't dream about subjecting my kids to that, but I definitely learned about earning a dollar.

As for reasons to buy, how about wanting the higher spec sibling of the one you had? I had a Hardrock, now I'm hunting Stumpies.

 

[pw_pw_la]

I was in the looking for a project; midlife crisis; what about building the bike you always wanted as a kid camp?

Now I'm in the spend all my day on here; got three more builds lined up in my head; wishlist getting longer by the day; bank account empty camp!

Cheers boys.

 

[raidan73]

“I always wanted one but couldn’t afford it” is well out in front. I think I’ve probably wanted a bike based on almost every category listed, though have never really felt the urge to try and find the first mtb I owned, an 88/89 Raleigh Chinook