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Dustoff35:
So, what are you going to do for transportation when you run out of diesel or gasoline?
How far can you walk in a day?
How much can you carry on your back?
What kind of physical shape (conditioning) are you in?
My wife and I bought a mountain bike for my son (age 10) for his birthday in early July. His enthusiasm upon receiving the bike and his relentless pleadings for me to go for a ride with him prompted me to take a walk out to the big garage and head up the stairs.
Back in the corner, behind several rolls of insulation and a stack of rough-cut Ash and Walnut boards, I found a dusty, flat-tired, old Giant ATX-760 leaning up against the wall in a corner. The right-hand gearshift and brake levers were snapped clean off, casualty of a rough ride down a steep, heavily wooded hillside that ended in what was reported to be a spectacular wipe-out. I didn't find out about the incident until several months after the driver of the bike, my oldest daughter's previous BF, left for the Marine Corps. Typical USMC Knuckle-head… I would have enjoyed being there for the crash…
I pulled the bike out from the corner and brought it down into the basement of the house and placed it in a bicycle maintenance stand. I took a bucket of warm, soapy water and a can of WD-40 and began cleaning years of dust, cobwebs and dirt from what was a pretty solid Mountain bike back in the mid-nineties. I pulled out some bicycle tools I had not used in years, a crank puller, freewheel sockets and tire wedges. After several hours of cleaning, disassembling, lubricating and re-assembly, I had a near functional bicycle and a list of parts that would be required to make Mr. Giant operational once again. 3 days later, a box of parts (Amazon) arrived...
cudakidd53:
Yep, got a Bianchi hanging from the rafters under a couple years of dust- last used to "road" the dogs getting them and I in shape for hour competitions. Some good over the bar moments there when a dog would stop NOW to take a crap, or try to chase a deer!
Your opinion on "Slime" in the tubes of said bike tires?
TexasRedNeck:
I have a Giant MB but most of my rides are on a Specialized Allez Elite. I've done a century on it but probably not in that shape right now. Could go 60 pretty easily.
In a box waiting to be built is a full carbon Neil Pryde Diablo which I hope to get started on one day.
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Flyin6:
--- Quote from: TexasRedNeck on August 02, 2015, 06:30:49 PM ---I have a Giant MB but most of my rides are on a Specialized Allez Elite. I've done a century on it but probably not in that shape right now. Could go 60 pretty easily.
In a box waiting to be built is a full carbon Neil Pryde Diablo which I hope to get started on one day.
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Is there anything you don't own?...dang! 8)
TexasRedNeck:
Yes. A tractor and TNT. I plan on having a tractor soon. Since I failed to heed the call, I can only dream about HE. :-)
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