| Re: Sad Story: was Schwinn Sidewinder from Walmart
On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 04:37:31 GMT, "Phil, Squid-in-Training"
<phil_leeIHEARTBASHGUARDS@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> But the one thing I noticed, people who actually ride department store
>> bikes on this group have little problems with them.
>
>There are basically three types that ride these bikes:
>1. People who buy and never ever ride.
>2. People who buy and ride the piss out of them commuting.
>3. People (teenage boys) who buy and ride the piss out of them doing things
>the bikes were never intended to do.
>
>We get lots of #3. #2 come in once in a long time. #1 come in to have
>their bikes fixed after sitting for a couple of years, usually scoffing at
>the cost of repair. And then proceed to never ride them again.
>
>So generally, I'd agree.
And after about 8 to 10 years, the folks in the first categry donate
the bike to Goodwill or dump it at a garage sale or foist it off one
someone else because they are tired of paying to put the thing back
into immediately ride-worthy shape...and have finally realized that
they really aren't going to ride it anyway.
That's when people like me get hold of them, and either ride the piss
out of them or pass them along to someone else who must be sorted into
one of the categories themselves.
I also get some pretty nice bikes through that same process. You'd be
amazed at how many people buy a decent lbs-level bike and proceed to
leave it in a corner the same way that your category-one folks do.
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