I'm a once a week kind of a guy...you?

[Dr S]

Like Neilll I was just a few months ago just a one bike guy until I found you lot. In just 8 weeks I have spent and absolute fortune and hundreds of hours scanning the Evilbay for bits. I'm now up to 5 bikes, only one is complete, I still have so much to spend and learn

It was Ok at first, just a laugh. Then started looking at all the stuff I wanted as a yoof but couldn't afford. Started dabbling a little, its cool, I can stop anytime, then started finding I needed more and more. Couldn't sleep, started selling other stuff to fund my habit. Then you start the lies....' I'm doing my tax return love' The secret meetings in laybys with pockets full of cash.

Fast forward a year and I will be living in a box on the street with no woman and no home but with the nicest goddam Funk you ever did see

 

[cchris2lou]

It takes me 45 min in the morning to check all MTB forums , ebay etc...

 

[Pickle]

I think in summery, we all really need to get out more......

 

[Anthony]

No, this 'need' for closure is just theory, the reality is that you have a fertile mind and you enjoy experimentation, so why should you stop?

The closure thing is just guilt talking, but why feel guilty about being obsessed? Obsession is a good thing. If it wasn't for obsession, nothing would ever get invented, including these PC things we're all playing around with. Don't knock it.

 

[kingroon]

I think in summery, we all really need to get out more......

"Out more" as in Outside? Actually, I'm not feeling too well, might have to go home

 

[Sithlord]

Buying selling RIDING Mountain bikes its my life dudes!!

Thanks to all the old guys TOM/GARY etc, etc for giving us an incite to how good life can be

 

[ededwards]

About two years ago I completed my 'quiver' of five bikes and was replete - geared roadbike? Check. SS roadbike? Yep. Geared mountainbike? Of course. SS mountainbike? Naturally. And finally a cross bike. All bikes up and running and right size so I could relax in the knowledge that I wouldn't need another bike for many years.

Fast forward two years and I have a 13th bike held up in Customs. I'm not sure what happened but I am continually, daily buying various bits, dreaming up new configurations of what I've got. I often buy things and have absolutely no idea what I am going to do with them (9 speed Dura Ace STIs being just one recent example).

Then about 9 months ago my wife said that low self esteem was the reason why I had so many bikes. I went for a long run and returned feeling really bad, so bad that I went straight upstairs, logged on and bought my first Yo.

I have decreed this year that I will ride more, fettle less and that, for space reasons, it has to be one out and one in. But then again I could always hang a few bikes from the rafters and there was that rather sweet frame I saw the other day.........












As Diana Ross once sung, "If there's a cure for this I don't want it"

 

[Sithlord]

BANG ON Dude

 

[TheGreenRabbit]

I cant rember the last time I have a day off sick, as I work from home I am not sure if any one would notice any way..

And the view of the Beach must be kinda medicinal anyways! Beach Town L.A., where you at; Newport? Redondo? Manhattan?

LittleHampton - gets them every time

 

[jimihendrix]

Interesting comment Dr S made about now being able to buy all the bits he could'nt afford when he was younger, am i right in thinking most Retrobikers are like this ? sounds like me i'm 37, in the early to mid 90's when i was in my 20's 2-2.5 grand for a frame was totaly out of reach as was a set of cranks at £240 or hubs at £400 but now most of it is available for reasonable money.

I've recently got back into bikes having been into cars for about the last 10 years, though i was still out riding now and again during that time, i'd forgotten what a beautyfull thing an anodised Ringle seat post is or Grafton brakes or Cooks cranks or.................