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gmoneyluv said:
Ugh, tough decision coming up for me. Someone has just offered me over $10 000 for a old bike (that's a bicycle, psyop) that I own. Love the bike, but that's a healthy chunk of cash. Ugh.
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What kind of bike are we talking about, Gus? Classic steel? Take the money....CF is a WAY better ride. Ti? I'd still sell it. Actually, unless you're a collector, there ain't nothing (IMO) comes close to riding like the new stuff. Plus, you probably ain't riding that thing now anyway....
 
TMHunt said:
I don't understand? 10K for a bicycle.....whats to decide. take the cash and buy you a damn nice bike for half of that or less. Then you will have all kinds of money to spend at my table at Blade...:D
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ac700wildcat said:
Sounds like solid advice to me!!
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granitestateofmind said:
What kind of bike are we talking about, Gus? Classic steel? Take the money....CF is a WAY better ride. Ti? I'd still sell it. Actually, unless you're a collector, there ain't nothing (IMO) comes close to riding like the new stuff. Plus, you probably ain't riding that thing now anyway....
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It a Charlie Cunningham mountain bike. One of less than 200 ever made. Very important person in the evolution of the mountain bike.

Some info:

http://www.mtnbikehalloffame.com/page.cfm?pageid=6&memberid=25

http://www.cunninghambikes.com/

He influenced almost all modern builders and designers.

BTW, anyone that's complaining about the wait times for a custom knife might want to know that I put down a $1000 deposit and waited a year for the frame. And that's when I had to pay the balance.
 
Um WTF Gus that thing would be gone so fast it would make your head spin. You can get a brand new S-works or what ever flavor of bike you like for half that.
 
gmoneyluv said:
Details sir!
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Had my first drink today (screwdriver) at 1130-ish. By 1230 had finished off a small bottle of goose, by 1400 was asleep with a pot roast in the crock pot. Woke up at 6 made some taters and had a bottle of dandelion wine (made from the dandelions in my parent's front yard) with supper. Now I'm laying in the recliner with a cuppa irish coffee.
 
Chameleonbear said:
Had my first drink today (screwdriver) at 1130-ish. By 1230 had finished off a small bottle of goose, by 1400 was asleep with a pot roast in the crock pot. Woke up at 6 made some taters and had a bottle of dandelion wine (made from the dandelions in my parent's front yard) with supper. Now I'm laying in the recliner with a cuppa irish coffee.
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Damn, I wanna party with you. Just don't think I can keep up. Back to training!
 
Psyop said:
Um WTF Gus that thing would be gone so fast it would make your head spin. You can get a brand new S-works or what ever flavor of bike you like for half that.
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I hear ya Psy. And Christine is also pushing that perspective! :D
 
worldwood said:
Friday there was a high school shooting right next to my wife's work. So sad how common its getting.
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It really is sad how common they're getting. Oh, that picture I posted, turns out that was an under cover cop. Not very smart to be carrying around an "assault rifle" and wearing a trench coat right after somebody got shot. Im sure if somebody was carrying and saw him they would have shot him, or at least I would have. I have a picture of the guy who did the shooting in cuffs on the ground, but don't know if i should post it?
 
gmoneyluv said:
Ugh, tough decision coming up for me. Someone has just offered me over $10 000 for a old bike (that's a bicycle, psyop) that I own. Love the bike, but that's a healthy chunk of cash. Ugh.
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And I get crazy looks and comments when I tell people I paid abound 2 grand when I built my bike. Then again it doesn't have the same meaning nor is it rare like the one you have.
 
gmoneyluv said:
Damn, I wanna party with you. Just don't think I can keep up. Back to training!
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This isn't a normal occurrence for me. This is just the result of a bit of a heinous day. Tomorrow shall be better. Thankfully when I was at the store this morning getting the stuff for pot roast I also grabbed a ginormous bottle of that G-Rade. That should make tomorrow bearable at least, headache wise.

DJG097 said:
It really is sad how common they're getting. Oh, that picture I posted, turns out that was an under cover cop. Not very smart to be carrying around an "assault rifle" and wearing a trench coat right after somebody got shot. Im sure if somebody was carrying and saw him they would have shot him, or at least I would have. I have a picture of the guy who did the shooting in cuffs on the ground, but don't know if i should post it?
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Unless he is in the process of getting tazed. I dunno why but I love watching OTHER people getting tazed. When it's actually happening to you, it kinda REALLY sucks! The pissing yourself is the most embarrassing part.
 
gmoneyluv said:
Ugh, tough decision coming up for me. Someone has just offered me over $10 000 for a old bike (that's a bicycle, psyop) that I own. Love the bike, but that's a healthy chunk of cash. Ugh.
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Psyop said:
Um WTF Gus that thing would be gone so fast it would make your head spin. You can get a brand new S-works or what ever flavor of bike you like for half that.
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Ditto. You could buy TWO S-Works, one (fully suspended!) for the woods and one (TWO WORDS: carbon. fibre. (Canadian sp. ;))) for the road. No one outside of you - and the guy with 10,000 clams - is interested in that particular piece of bicycle history. I have personally seen dozens of "collector's bikes" still in the original purchaser's collection, simply because there were just too few others interested in each of their "collectibles". IIWM, I'd sell. It's hard to find a like-minded individual with that kind of scratch. That's what I would do, but of course, you may really be attached to that bike, and (obviously by your post) be reticent to part with it. All I'm saying is, if you can, try to be as objective as possible as you work this one out.

OK, way more than 2¢, but......I worked in the bike business for a long time....benefit of experience. It's OK to keep stuff like that for sentimental reasons....but I'm not that sentimental about "objects" when they have no personal connection - such as if I knew the person who made it. Or if someone offers me 10 grand for something that I paid far less for.

Keep in mind, though, that I know none of this by direct, personal experience; there is even money that I'm totally wrong.

Good luck, buen suerte, whatever you decide.
 
I read about some guy months ago that was shocking himself over and over increasing the voltage for weeks and also was shooting himself with pepper spray over and over too. Supposedly he was trying to get his body use to being shocked and sprayed with mace.

I think he was born with a few french fries short of a happy meal.
 
Chameleonbear said:
Unless he is in the process of getting tazed. I dunno why but I love watching OTHER people getting tazed. When it's actually happening to you, it kinda REALLY sucks! The pissing yourself is the most embarrassing part.
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Watching people get tazed is indeed very funny. I've never actually been tazed but I've been electrocuted a couple times due to my own stupidity. Not fun.
 
worldwood said:
I read about some guy months ago that was shocking himself over and over increasing the voltage for weeks and also was shooting himself with pepper spray over and over too. Supposedly he was trying to get his body use to being shocked and sprayed with mace.

I think he was born with a few french fries short of a happy meal.
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You gotta worry about what a person is up to if he is doing all that preparation....
 
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The knife I got from Nikki today. Went ahead and wrapped it. I likes it!
 
DJG097 said:
Watching people get tazed is indeed very funny. I've never actually been tazed but I've been electrocuted a couple times due to my own stupidity. Not fun.
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Depends on where you get tazed and with what type of tazer. The new ones the cops carry are worse than the old ones. The ones with the barbs that actually go into your skin SUCK! The old ones that just got pressed into you aren't THAT bad. Definitely they are tolerable. The new ones, not so much.

NathanJ said:
You gotta worry about what a person is up to if he is doing all that preparation....
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At work we used to lock people in the walk in and spray mace into the ventilation so they were stuck in there. It was SO funny. The one getting stuck kind of sucked but we all went through it. It wasn't like we didn't take our licks.
worldwood said:
I like that wrap cbear!!
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Thanks, I got it from the Esee forum. It's one of my favorites cause it really fills it out.
 
Anyone have experience with the Ruger American rifles? I'm looking hard at a .22 compact version.
 
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