> Suddenly I feel a bit embarrassed by conspicuous over-consumption. > What the heck do I need all this stuff for? Three billion people on > the planet have no guitars, bicycles or fountain pens- or barely a > place to live out of the weather or enough food. About half of the > Earth's population lives on $3 a day or less, according to the CIA > fact book. I can sometimes make as much in a week as many people > make in a year. Wow. Now I've talked my way up from embarrassment > to guilt.
At risk of topic drift, I am kind of curious how you want to work this out. Owing to some congenital lack of attention span, I have a custom I spent a fortune on and a restoration project (expensive but not as much as the custom) that do pretty much the same thing - haul me and a lot of gear long distance. I only have time to go on one or two tours a year, so both bikes stay parked (one in my condo, the other in my condo storage area) most of the year because I also have a wonderful commuter that is much better for city riding than either touring bike. I could sell one, but then you go through the whole unpleasant process of marketing to and possibly dickering with strangers. I was intimately involved in the build process and restoration process and know full well the effort that went behind the bikes. It would drive me mad to hear people denigrate the bikes when I know full well they are just trying to get a better price. It may be a better thing to give one away, but can neither decide which or how I would pick a recepient. The bikes are each great rides in their own distinct way. It would be a pity if one wound up in disrespectful hands. But it would be even more a pity if 30 years or so from now my heirs find themselves wondering why I had this 30 year old contraption that I apparently never used. Now if only I could figure a way to retire early ... On Jan 15, 8:52 am, Tim McNamara <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 15, 2009, at 8:26 AM, Tim McNamara wrote: > > > To extend the questions... how many ride Rivendells and also play > > music of some sort (not necessarily at the same time)? > > D'oh... I extended the question but didn't answer it. Sheesh. I > play guitar (and we have even more guitars than bikes. 3 bikes, an > un-built-up frameset and a tandem plus the wife's 3 bikes. But we > have 8 guitars; and a banjo, violin, piano and clarinet (all my > wife's).). > > Suddenly I feel a bit embarrassed by conspicuous over-consumption. > What the heck do I need all this stuff for? Three billion people on > the planet have no guitars, bicycles or fountain pens- or barely a > place to live out of the weather or enough food. About half of the > Earth's population lives on $3 a day or less, according to the CIA > fact book. I can sometimes make as much in a week as many people > make in a year. Wow. Now I've talked my way up from embarrassment > to guilt. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
