Down to just two bikes - sorry, 3 bikes

[FMJ]

You have baseball bats over there?

 

[Neil]

You have baseball bats over there?

Only for decorative purposes.

 

[incorrigible]

What's the over/under on the time it takes till the thread title is changed to "Down to just two bikes - sorry, 3 bikes - oops, 4 bikes"?

So... if I'm reading you correctly, you're kinda saying the thread title can be like trying to play pin the tail on the donkey, when the donkey is psychotic, has just taken a cocktail of speed, crystal meth, tren and LSD, and has just been wellied in the nards by a sadistic sociopath with a baseball bat... and it's just seen a carrot... and it's a full moon...

I see what you mean.

Sure, I get it. Not just your average game of pin the tail on the donkey. More like chasing the donkey. Yep, chasing the unpredictable, twitching, spastic, hallucinating, methed-out, psychotic, rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth donkey from Hell with Tourette's Syndrome.

I understand that heroin addicts go through a similar experience referred to as "chasing the tiger", meaning that they're always trying to reach that euphoric height of their first heroin high, but that high is as elusive as a tiger, and try as they might, the addicts just can't catch that tiger.

Similarly, as much as I chase the elusive retrobike unicorns of my youth, and even though I've managed to catch many of them, the thrill of the hunt and the euphoria of the capture when middle-aged doesn't nearly compare to the experience of being a twenty-something young man and riding an MTB with passion, anger, and seemingly unlimited strength and endurance, yet I still hold out hope that the next retrobike I find on eBay or Craigslist will fill that void and scratch that itch. Meanwhile, bystanders, outsiders and other non-MTBers will simply look upon me with the same pity with which they would look upon a homeless heroin addict, and refer to my seemingly futile endeavor of going broke while buying one old bike after another as "chasing the donkey". They may even hold me up as an example to their children: "Look at him", they'll say. "He has more bikes that he will ever ride, but he'll never be as happy as he was in his youth, and yet he continues to (fingerquotes) 'chase the donkey' ".

Guilty as charged. You may well see me on a street corner someday holding a cardboard sign that reads "will work for NOS Deore XT parts", while passersby scream "donkey chaser" at me and laugh as I eagerly stoop to pick up the worn XT thumbies and tattered BioPace rings that they toss at my feet; useless items of trash to them, yet priceless objects of pure gold to me.
:facepalm:
Ready for my first meeting of DCA: "Hi, my name is Frank, and I'm a donkey chaser".

 

[66 triumph daytona]

Re:

Brilliant.

 

[Neil]

Re: Re:

Brilliant.

Absolutely - he picked up the baton and it was "Run, Forest, Run...!!!"

From little sparks, form true forest fires!

 

[clockd]

Re:

Can I ask how you did it?
I have been on this site for ages, amassed a huge inventory of basically high end .... Crap.
I walk into my garage, do nothing and walk out with a headache.

I have every dream bike and also everyone else's dream bike.

I have started selling off some bits and bikes but parting with them is tough work

Can you offer any advice ?

 

[Mike Muz]

Re: Re:

Brilliant.

+1

In a Richie Hall kinda style

Making me on a boring morning at work

cheers

Mike

 

[Neil]

Ready for my first meeting of DCA: "Hi, my name is Frank, and I'm a donkey chaser".

The first step, as always, is knowing and accepting that you've got a problem.

Don't worry "We're all gonna make it, brah" (and look what happened to him... can't help but see some parallels, though)

 

[Mike Muz]

Re: Re:

Can I ask how you did it?
I have been on this site for ages, amassed a huge inventory of basically high end .... Crap.
I walk into my garage, do nothing and walk out with a headache.

I have every dream bike and also everyone else's dream bike.

I have started selling off some bits and bikes but parting with them is tough work

Can you offer any advice ?

There's only two options here .

1-Decide to keep them . Think about it no more

2-Karma the lot , it will go quickly , giving you no time for sentimentality

So , to conclude , enjoy riding them all !

I do with mine

Mike

 

[legrandefromage]

Re: Re:

Can I ask how you did it?
I have been on this site for ages, amassed a huge inventory of basically high end .... Crap.
I walk into my garage, do nothing and walk out with a headache.

I have every dream bike and also everyone else's dream bike.

I have started selling off some bits and bikes but parting with them is tough work

Can you offer any advice ?

Switch off and cull dispassionately

or think of yourself as custodian and pass them off to people who will look after them for another 5 years or so.


*I have a complete DX groupset waiting for 'that' frame - not sure what frame but its definitely a 'that' frame.