Ebay Hinjinx: Are you kidding me?

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Riiiiiiight...

A four year old Fisher aluminum frame that's been ridden to bejeezus and back, with Santa Cruz
stickers on it, bent brake bosses, and "jackss" CARVED into the top tube. Please let me build that
up and trust my health to its integrity.

All that nonsense aside, would YOU buy a bike from a guy with Jeff Gordon bedsheets?

This may be the dumbest thing I've seen since the Fisher Paragon with eight-spoke Shimano
wheels...and a Dorado (I think...something massive and double-crown) fork to make it a proper
downhill rig.

Chris

 

"Chris" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3608410659&category=22679
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| Riiiiiiight...
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| A four year old Fisher aluminum frame that's been ridden to bejeezus and back, with Santa Cruz
| stickers on it, bent brake bosses, and "jackss"
CARVED
| into the top tube. Please let me build that up and trust my health to its integrity.
|
| All that nonsense aside, would YOU buy a bike from a guy with Jeff Gordon bedsheets?
|
| This may be the dumbest thing I've seen since the Fisher Paragon with eight-spoke Shimano
| wheels...and a Dorado (I think...something massive and double-crown) fork to make it a proper
| downhill rig.

A freeride DH? out of a straight gauged 7005 alloy frame? Sheesh!

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"Nelson Binch" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> "Chris" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3608410659&category=22679
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> | Riiiiiiight...
> |
> | A four year old Fisher aluminum frame that's been ridden to bejeezus and back, with Santa Cruz
> | stickers on it, bent brake bosses, and "jackss"
> CARVED
> | into the top tube. Please let me build that up and trust my health to
its
> | integrity.
> |
> | All that nonsense aside, would YOU buy a bike from a guy with Jeff
Gordon
> | bedsheets?
> |
> | This may be the dumbest thing I've seen since the Fisher Paragon with eight-spoke Shimano
> | wheels...and a Dorado (I think...something massive
and
> | double-crown) fork to make it a proper downhill rig.
>
> A freeride DH? out of a straight gauged 7005 alloy frame? Sheesh!
>

Nothing wrong with straight gauge 7005 alluminum I've done like a 2.5' drop with it and it held
up just fine. err, my Kaitai, that is - same frame, just a couple years older. Don't think I'd take
it on the DH/DS course tho...

Jon Bond

 

"Jon Bond" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
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> Nothing wrong with straight gauge 7005 alluminum I've done like a 2.5' drop with it and it held
> up just fine. err, my Kaitai, that is - same frame, just a couple years older. Don't think I'd
> take it on the DH/DS course tho...
>
> Jon Bond
>

2.5 on an XC hardtail isn't out of the question...of course, we know how to land properly, and can
probably discern the difference between "use" and "abuse." I get the feeling someone who would
carve "jackass" in a frame can't make that distinction

And again, I am so not down with NASCAR as interior design.

Chris

 

"Chris" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> All that nonsense aside, would YOU buy a bike from a guy with Jeff Gordon bedsheets?

You forgot to mention that they are probably urine-stained.

JD

 

"Chris" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3608410659&category=22679
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> Riiiiiiight...
>
> A four year old Fisher aluminum frame that's been ridden to bejeezus and back, with Santa Cruz
> stickers on it, bent brake bosses, and "jackss"
CARVED
> into the top tube. Please let me build that up and trust my health to its integrity.

Hey, you mean you don't think POS dumpster-special frames are worth spending $100+ to have them
reconditioned?

> All that nonsense aside, would YOU buy a bike from a guy with Jeff Gordon bedsheets?

Do you really think his "other bike is a Super 8." Yeah, riiiiight. He has a photo of a Super 8 torn
out of a magazine and is saving up his allowance to buy one in about 5 years.

-Barry

 

"B. Sanders" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> "Chris" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3608410659&category=22679
> >
> > Riiiiiiight...
> >
> > A four year old Fisher aluminum frame that's been ridden to bejeezus and back, with Santa Cruz
> > stickers on it, bent brake bosses, and "jackss"
> CARVED
> > into the top tube. Please let me build that up and trust my health to
its
> > integrity.
>
> Hey, you mean you don't think POS dumpster-special frames are worth
spending
> $100+ to have them reconditioned?

That's different...fixing something that was thrown away is like giving birth to a new bike (which
sounds painful). Putting parts on that frame would be like falling in live with a prostitute: they
are both completely worn out and past the point of no return.

>
> > All that nonsense aside, would YOU buy a bike from a guy with Jeff
Gordon
> > bedsheets?
>
> Do you really think his "other bike is a Super 8." Yeah, riiiiight. He has
a
> photo of a Super 8 torn out of a magazine and is saving up his allowance
to
> buy one in about 5 years.
>

It's one of those XR-100s with "Super 8" keyed into the down tube. And a Dale Earnhardt sticker on
the headtube.

Chris