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Just curious... :-) It looks more like an ebay store front.

Kevin

Kevin wrote:
> Just curious... :-) It looks more like an ebay store front.
>
> Kevin
>
>


Sad isn't it :(

On Apr 11, 7:26 am, "Kevin" <kevin.mcint...@hp.com> wrote:
> Just curious... :-)  It looks more like an ebay store front.
>
> Kevin

But, but, Kevin, now I know where to buy a cheap FAKE WATCH. Very
useful when you don't want to know what time it is.
And how about those call girls in HYDERABAD and
BANGALORE.....oooooooWhee! Now that's livivn' son!!
BTW, Call girls in Bang Galore? It's worthy of Ian Flemming.
ABS

Kevin McIntyre wrote:
> Just curious... :-) It looks more like an ebay store front.
>
That and cross-posted flame wars started by donquixote1954 aka
CommendanteBanana.

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
The weather is here, wish you were beautiful

In article <ftnse5$9ia$1@news-pa1.hpl.hp.com>,
"Kevin" <kevin.mcintyre@hp.com> writes:
> Just curious... :-) It looks more like an ebay store front.

I've just passed the 8th anniversary of my
stewardship of my main bike -- an old-skool
MTB that somebody discarded at the closure
of our last public transit strike.

The only "original" parts remaining since
I got the bike are the frame (even the
fork is a replacement) and the Sugino AT
crankset.

Last week I dropped $40 for a new rear wheel
c/w screw-on freewheel hub. It's a nondescript,
single-wall-rim'd, straight-gauge-spoked li'l
beauty. I was lucky to find something with
a threaded hub. The outer walls on double-walled
rims wear from braking just as quickly as single
wall rims.

The front wheel rim is getting fairly worn,
so I might buy an whole new front wheel this
weekend. Since I'm doing 40 hour work weeks,
[re]building wheels eats into my precious riding
time. And maybe I'll look into obtaining either
a taller stem (one where the front brake cable
stop is an hole bored right through the thing)
or a riser handlebar.

I've thought about getting a new bike; maybe
a DaVinci Umbria or something like, but my
current whip has served me well and faithfully,
and I've become rather fond of it, and respectful
of its perserverance. It's always there for me.
It's gotten me home while I was in dire straits,
and it's gotten me away from dire straits at home.
Besides, I like having threaded eyelets for everything,
a rigid fork, and old style cantilever brakes & levers.
It's easier to fit fenders around old style canti brakes
than V-brakes, and old style canti brake levers just feel
good to me. And 18 speeds/x-over gearing inc. granny is
generally more than sufficient for my needs.

I bought a new rubber bulb horn for it last week, too.

Maybe I'll paint the frame when (if) the weather
becomes conducive. I think I and the bike would
like something '60s-ish psychedelic.


cheers,
Tom
--
"... my Preshuss ..."
-- Gollum
I'm really at: tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca

Tom Keats wrote:
> In article <ftnse5$9ia$1@news-pa1.hpl.hp.com>,
> "Kevin" <kevin.mcintyre@hp.com> writes:
>> Just curious... :-) It looks more like an ebay store front.
>
> I've just passed the 8th anniversary of my
> stewardship of my main bike -- an old-skool
> MTB that somebody discarded at the closure
> of our last public transit strike.
>
> The only "original" parts remaining since
> I got the bike are the frame (even the
> fork is a replacement) and the Sugino AT
> crankset.
>
> Last week I dropped $40 for a new rear wheel
> c/w screw-on freewheel hub. It's a nondescript,
> single-wall-rim'd, straight-gauge-spoked li'l
> beauty. I was lucky to find something with
> a threaded hub. The outer walls on double-walled
> rims wear from braking just as quickly as single
> wall rims.
>
> The front wheel rim is getting fairly worn,
> so I might buy an whole new front wheel this
> weekend. Since I'm doing 40 hour work weeks,
> [re]building wheels eats into my precious riding
> time. And maybe I'll look into obtaining either
> a taller stem (one where the front brake cable
> stop is an hole bored right through the thing)
> or a riser handlebar.
>
> I've thought about getting a new bike; maybe
> a DaVinci Umbria or something like, but my
> current whip has served me well and faithfully,
> and I've become rather fond of it, and respectful
> of its perserverance. It's always there for me.
> It's gotten me home while I was in dire straits,
> and it's gotten me away from dire straits at home.
> Besides, I like having threaded eyelets for everything,
> a rigid fork, and old style cantilever brakes & levers.
> It's easier to fit fenders around old style canti brakes
> than V-brakes, and old style canti brake levers just feel
> good to me. And 18 speeds/x-over gearing inc. granny is
> generally more than sufficient for my needs.
>
> I bought a new rubber bulb horn for it last week, too.
>
> Maybe I'll paint the frame when (if) the weather
> becomes conducive. I think I and the bike would
> like something '60s-ish psychedelic.
>
>
> cheers,
> Tom

Yes. Most of us are probably out riding when we can.

"Kevin" <kevin.mcintyre@hp.com> wrote in message
news:ftnse5$9ia$1@news-pa1.hpl.hp.com...
> Just curious... :-) It looks more like an ebay store front.
>
> Kevin
>
I guess you missed my RBT face plant thread?

J.

>> Maybe I'll paint the frame when (if) the weather becomes
>> conducive. I think I and the bike would like something
>> '60s-ish psychedelic.

=v= Beautiful Saturday and I'm sitting around waiting for
delivery of my "psycho lime" bike. (You can google the color.)

> Yes. Most of us are probably out riding when we can.

=v= True enough. Others are spamming when they can, though. :-(
<_Jym_>

"There's a SEASON?"
-- Yehuda Moon

Jay Bollyn wrote:
> "Kevin" <kevin.mcintyre@hp.com> wrote in message
> news:ftnse5$9ia$1@news-pa1.hpl.hp.com...
>> Just curious... :-) It looks more like an ebay store front.
>>
>> Kevin
>>
> I guess you missed my RBT face plant thread?
>
I hope the Electra survived without damage.

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
The weather is here, wish you were beautiful

"Tom Sherman" <sunsetss0003@REMOVETHISyahoo.com> wrote in message
news:ftqvto$q5d$4@registered.motzarella.org...
> Jay Bollyn wrote:
>> "Kevin" <kevin.mcintyre@hp.com> wrote in message
>> news:ftnse5$9ia$1@news-pa1.hpl.hp.com...
>>> Just curious... :-) It looks more like an ebay store front.
>>>
>>> Kevin
>>>
>> I guess you missed my RBT face plant thread?
>>
> I hope the Electra survived without damage.
>
> --
> Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
> The weather is here, wish you were beautiful
>
>
Seriously, I can't find it, and dat B no jok. I think Niles PD has it, but I
have no leverage over dos guys. My leverage has limits. Basically limited to
Chicago, or Cicero. I am dat kinda guy.

No one - not CPD District 16 - Niles PD - Bollingbrook PD - CFD - knows
where da bike is. I am ready to write it off, and buy another.

PLEASE! Do NOT make J mad. J is a rilly bad seed.

J.

Jay Bollyn wrote:
> "Tom Sherman" <sunsetss0003@REMOVETHISyahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:ftqvto$q5d$4@registered.motzarella.org...
>> Jay Bollyn wrote:
>>> "Kevin" <kevin.mcintyre@hp.com> wrote in message
>>> news:ftnse5$9ia$1@news-pa1.hpl.hp.com...
>>>> Just curious... :-) It looks more like an ebay store front.
>>>>
>>>> Kevin
>>>>
>>> I guess you missed my RBT face plant thread?
>>>
>> I hope the Electra survived without damage.
>>
> Seriously, I can't find it, and dat B no jok. I think Niles PD has it, but I
> have no leverage over dos guys. My leverage has limits. Basically limited to
> Chicago, or Cicero. I am dat kinda guy.
>
No compromising information on Governor "BlahBlah" or Speaker Madigan -
or his daughter - she could whip a local PD into line, no?

> No one - not CPD District 16 - Niles PD - Bollingbrook PD - CFD - knows
> where da bike is. I am ready to write it off, and buy another.
>
Civil suit?

> PLEASE! Do NOT make J mad. J is a rilly bad seed.
>
Don't get mad, get even.

However, because of Boub vs. Township of Wayne, you can likely not sue
over the road conditions that caused the accident.

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
The weather is here, wish you were beautiful

"Tom Sherman" <sunsetss0003@REMOVETHISyahoo.com> wrote in message
news:ftr4pd$leg$1@registered.motzarella.org...
>>
> Don't get mad, get even.
>
> However, because of Boub vs. Township of Wayne, you can likely not sue
> over the road conditions that caused the accident.
>
> --
> Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
> The weather is here, wish you were beautiful
>
>
Tom; it ain't worth it.

J.

In article <ftqvto$q5d$4@registered.motzarella.org>,
Tom Sherman <sunsetss0003@REMOVETHISyahoo.com> writes:
> Jay Bollyn wrote:
>> "Kevin" <kevin.mcintyre@hp.com> wrote in message
>> news:ftnse5$9ia$1@news-pa1.hpl.hp.com...
>>> Just curious... :-) It looks more like an ebay store front.
>>>
>>> Kevin
>>>
>> I guess you missed my RBT face plant thread?
>>
> I hope the Electra survived without damage.

I sing the bicycle Electra.
If you're feeling frowny,
get thee aboard a Townie.

I can't even begin to imagine wiping out
on one of those things.

Are they bunny-hoppable? I guess even if
they were, all yer groceries would fly out
of the basket. Baguettes de la rue.
For some reason, a dozen eggs survives
pavemental jolts better than a half-dozen eggs.
Grocery shopping by bike is fraught with such
nuances. And the clerk will always fill your
shopping bags in the worst possible combinations,
like putting your loaf of bread next to a big,
floppy can of V8 in the same bag. And (especially
if you're obviously riding 'cuz you've got a
helmet on) the clerk will assume you're gonna
hang everything on your handlebar, so she'll
automatically double-bag everything until you
ask her to please stop doing that while handing
her your re-usable muslin shopping bags to put
everything into. And then, when you get outside
the store, you've still gotta reorganize everything
before you lade your bike with it.

It's good to return home with uncompressed bread
and unbroken eggs.


cheers,
Tom

--
Nothing is safe from me.
I'm really at:
tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca

In article <ftr6po$ul0$1@registered.motzarella.org>,
Tom Sherman <sunsetss0003@REMOVETHISyahoo.com> writes:
> Tom Keats wrote:
>> In article <ftqvto$q5d$4@registered.motzarella.org>,
>> Tom Sherman <sunsetss0003@REMOVETHISyahoo.com> writes:
>>> Jay Bollyn wrote:
>>>> "Kevin" <kevin.mcintyre@hp.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:ftnse5$9ia$1@news-pa1.hpl.hp.com...
>>>>> Just curious... :-) It looks more like an ebay store front.
>>>>>
>>>>> Kevin
>>>>>
>>>> I guess you missed my RBT face plant thread?
>>>>
>>> I hope the Electra survived without damage.
>>
>> I sing the bicycle Electra.
>> If you're feeling frowny,
>> get thee aboard a Townie.
>>
>> I can't even begin to imagine wiping out
>> on one of those things.
>>
> Jay's model (lost by the Niles PD?) is/was an Amsterdam [1], not a
> Townie: <http://www.electrabike.com/amsterdam/>.

I can't even begin to imagine wiping out
on one of those things either.

>> It's good to return home with uncompressed bread
>> and unbroken eggs.

> No self-service checkout lanes?

Yeah, but up here we call it "shoplifting."


cheers,
Tom

--
Nothing is safe from me.
I'm really at:
tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca

Tom Keats wrote:
> In article <ftqvto$q5d$4@registered.motzarella.org>,
> Tom Sherman <sunsetss0003@REMOVETHISyahoo.com> writes:
>> Jay Bollyn wrote:
>>> "Kevin" <kevin.mcintyre@hp.com> wrote in message
>>> news:ftnse5$9ia$1@news-pa1.hpl.hp.com...
>>>> Just curious... :-) It looks more like an ebay store front.
>>>>
>>>> Kevin
>>>>
>>> I guess you missed my RBT face plant thread?
>>>
>> I hope the Electra survived without damage.
>
> I sing the bicycle Electra.
> If you're feeling frowny,
> get thee aboard a Townie.
>
> I can't even begin to imagine wiping out
> on one of those things.
>
Jay's model (lost by the Niles PD?) is/was an Amsterdam [1], not a
Townie: <http://www.electrabike.com/amsterdam/>.

> Are they bunny-hoppable? I guess even if
> they were, all yer groceries would fly out
> of the basket. Baguettes de la rue.
> For some reason, a dozen eggs survives
> pavemental jolts better than a half-dozen eggs.
> Grocery shopping by bike is fraught with such
> nuances. And the clerk will always fill your
> shopping bags in the worst possible combinations,
> like putting your loaf of bread next to a big,
> floppy can of V8 in the same bag. And (especially
> if you're obviously riding 'cuz you've got a
> helmet on) the clerk will assume you're gonna
> hang everything on your handlebar, so she'll
> automatically double-bag everything until you
> ask her to please stop doing that while handing
> her your re-usable muslin shopping bags to put
> everything into. And then, when you get outside
> the store, you've still gotta reorganize everything
> before you lade your bike with it.
>
> It's good to return home with uncompressed bread
> and unbroken eggs.
>
No self-service checkout lanes?

[1] "Armsterdam" for Red Cloud

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
The weather is here, wish you were beautiful

On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:26:12 -0600, "Kevin" <kevin.mcintyre@hp.com>
wrote:

>Just curious... :-) It looks more like an ebay store front.
>
Riding cuts into posting time and I've lately been spending more
online time bantering in a local forum with people I know and on a
"social networking" site for bicyclists:
http://www.meandmybicycle.com/

My "new" bike is a work in progress. It's the sweetest looking kids'
bike for 20" wheels. The frame is a Canadian made "Free Spirit" with
a curved down tube and twined top tubes matching that curve. Kind of
like a mixte but the twin tubes stop at the seat tube. It has curved
seat stays too. It's really just a rusty POS right now.

I'm setting it up with a Sachs 3 spd. coaster brake hub, alloy rims
and a mini ape hanger to get enough rise. The only missing ingredient
is a 25mm seat post at least 50 cm long.

The plan is to finish it black and chrome with a front basket,
folding rear baskets, fenders, generator lights and flat pedals for
quick utility trips.
--
zk

Tom Keats wrote:
> In article <ftr6po$ul0$1@registered.motzarella.org>,
> Tom Sherman <sunsetss0003@REMOVETHISyahoo.com> writes:
>> Tom Keats wrote:
>>> In article <ftqvto$q5d$4@registered.motzarella.org>,
>>> Tom Sherman <sunsetss0003@REMOVETHISyahoo.com> writes:
>>>> Jay Bollyn wrote:
>>>>> "Kevin" <kevin.mcintyre@hp.com> wrote in message
>>>>> news:ftnse5$9ia$1@news-pa1.hpl.hp.com...
>>>>>> Just curious... :-) It looks more like an ebay store front.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Kevin
>>>>>>
>>>>> I guess you missed my RBT face plant thread?
>>>>>
>>>> I hope the Electra survived without damage.
>>> I sing the bicycle Electra.
>>> If you're feeling frowny,
>>> get thee aboard a Townie.
>>>
>>> I can't even begin to imagine wiping out
>>> on one of those things.
>>>
>> Jay's model (lost by the Niles PD?) is/was an Amsterdam [1], not a
>> Townie: <http://www.electrabike.com/amsterdam/>.
>
> I can't even begin to imagine wiping out
> on one of those things either.
>
Not much different than wiping out on any other upright bicycle?

>>> It's good to return home with uncompressed bread
>>> and unbroken eggs.
>
>> No self-service checkout lanes?
>
> Yeah, but up here we call it "shoplifting."
>
Here most of the newer and larger grocery stores in the US have lanes
where the customer can scan or weigh items, bag them, then pay by
inserting cash or with a debit or credit card.

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
The weather is here, wish you were beautiful

"Kevin" <kevin.mcintyre@hp.com> wrote in message
news:ftnse5$9ia$1@news-pa1.hpl.hp.com...
> Just curious... :-) It looks more like an ebay store front.
>
> Kevin
>
nope.

J.

On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:14:00 -0700, Jym Dyer <jym@econet.org> wrote:

>>> Maybe I'll paint the frame when (if) the weather becomes
>>> conducive. I think I and the bike would like something
>>> '60s-ish psychedelic.
>
>=v= Beautiful Saturday and I'm sitting around waiting for
>delivery of my "psycho lime" bike. (You can google the color.)
>
>> Yes. Most of us are probably out riding when we can.
>
>=v= True enough. Others are spamming when they can, though. :-(
> <_Jym_>
>
> "There's a SEASON?"
> -- Yehuda Moon

Spam already comes in a can.

My server has good filters so authors I see (or not, based on my
filters) are mainly OT: involved in on going pissing contests, flames
and troll baiting by the regular experts at such, (mia culpa). Or,
they're in my watch file.

IIRC, Eric S. Sande and Peter Cole were the first people who
responded to my first posts in <r.b.m>. Many of the ideas presented
here, including yours, have influenced my thinking about cycling
protocols.

Online communication among local people who are likely to know each
other or meet in the future has a more civil tone but I dislike the
interface compared to plain text. A BBS would be better for me.

A picture is worth a thousand words so they use a lot of txt msg
spelling. Being moderated, as it must be to protect the host from
defamation hassles, makes for a tamer exchange than often times found
on Usenet. Fewer threads wander into far off-topic hostilities.

I found the Velolove list a little _too_ moderated with many OT
political/environmental posting hoping to mobilise cyclists for the
cause du jour.

Between the Momentum calendar and fixedvancouverdotcom, I can find a
ride anytime.
--
zk

In article <eqqptf.d9.ln@vcn.bc.ca>,
tkeats2005@hotmail.com (Tom Keats) writes:

> The front wheel rim is getting fairly worn,
> so I might buy an whole new front wheel this
> weekend. Since I'm doing 40 hour work weeks,
> [re]building wheels eats into my precious riding
> time. And maybe I'll look into obtaining either
> a taller stem (one where the front brake cable
> stop is an hole bored right through the thing)
> or a riser handlebar.

Well, I bought a new front wheel today. Double-walled
rim. Set me back about $55, which is $15 more than
my rear wheel with the threaded hub. I asked the
guy at Our Community Bikes about long stems (I have
about a 6" drop from saddle to handlebar right now)
and he suggested I should come back next week when
they'll have a new line of super long ones in stock.

I also bought a Matisse Quickstand:
http://tinyurl.com/6qpfrt

http://preview.tinyurl.com/6qpfrt

URL in full:
{http://www.mec.ca/Products/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=8455244426181\49&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302694071}

It's basically just a display stand with a
little adjustablility, but I think I'll be able
to make good use of it. I like the simplicity
and compactness of it. One can kick it under
one's workbench and out of the way when it's
not in use.

It's another of those assemble-it-yourself thingies
and it didn't come with enough washers, so I've been
perfunctorily & half-heartedly rootin' through my
parts drawers, looking for do-fers. I'm not disheartened;
I just don't feel like assembling stuff right now.
Screw it, I'll just buy some washers from a hardware
store/home improvement shop tomorrow. Another excuse
for a ride, eh?

Maybe I should get around to installing the new wheel.
But first I wanna go over the bearings. I don't really
feel like doing that right now, either. Chances are
I'll wake up in the middle of the night with a compulsion
to take care of that.

And I impulse-purchased a pair of skull valve caps.
Actually, two pairs -- one pair's for a fellow rider/
cow orker with whom I trade cutsie dollar store junk.


cheers,
Tom

--
Nothing is safe from me.
I'm really at:
tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca