Re: Sell your old bike!

"Alan Holmes" <alan.holmes@xxxxxxxxxx>typed



> "Simon Brooke" <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:8a8373-kje.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > in message <slrndpteu4.tv0.armb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Alan Braggins
> > ('armb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx') wrote:
> >
> >> In article <3130303037363935439C00EE52@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Helen Deborah
> >> Vecht wrote:
> >>>Tony Raven <junk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>typed
> >>>
> >>>> This must win the "Most Incompetent Spammer" award!
> >>>
> >>>Quite. Sheddi and cyclists seldom sell their possessions.
> >>
> >> That would explain the complete absence of discussion of second hand
> >> bikes and bike bits bought on eBay here, or advertisments for same :-).
> >
> > We _buy_ second hand bikes. We don't _sell_ second-hand bikes.

> So what do you do with them once you have bought them, or do you have a
> bottomless pit in your garden which you are trying to fill?

> Alan

> >
> > --
> > simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/
> > Iraq war: it's time for regime change...
> > ... go now, Tony, while you can still go with dignity.
> > [update 18 months after this .sig was written: it's still
> > relevant]


I mostly give them away, though I confess I sold one to Myra, late of
this parish.

Since I can't ride any more, I will describe the fate of my bicycles:

1) Kuwahara Pacer hybrid: sold to work colleague
2) Brompton folder: given to 12-year-old nephew
3) Cheltenham Pedersen: given to Tim Hall of this parish
4) Flying Scot touring cycle: given to man who later moved into my home.
Biccycle still lives in my hallway.
5) Orbit Harrier touring/Audax machine: same fate as Scot, but lives in
the garage.

My partner sold one of his bicycles to the chap that painted the house...

--
Helen D. Vecht: helenvecht@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Edgware.
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