Longest wait to ride a new bike?

ColinJ
ColinJ Posts: 2,218
edited September 2007 in The bottom bracket
With the latest Foot and Mouth and Blue Tongue outbreaks in the news, my mind drifted back to the dark days of 2001...

Feb 5th 2001 - ordered new mountain bike
Feb 19th 2001 - Foot and Mouth outbreak closes rights of way :(:cry: :evil:
Feb 20th 2001 - new bike arrives

I didn't want to ride the MTB on the road - I had perfectly good road bikes for that so I decided to leave the bike in its box until the local bridleways reopened. Surely that would only be a couple of weeks...?

March 2001 - bridleways shut
April 2001 - bridleways shut
May 2001 - bridleways shut
June 2001 - bridleways shut
July 10th 2001 - bridleways reopen - :D
July 10th - July 13th 2001 - too busy at work to ride bike - :evil:

Finally, after waiting 20 weeks and 4 days...

July 14th 2001 - rode 'new' mountain bike - :P

Has anybody ever waited longer than that to ride a new bike?

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  • nolf
    nolf Posts: 1,287
    I got a new cinelli 3 weeks ago then got sinisitus the day after- had my first ride (proper as in non-test ride) on it the day before yesterday.
    "I hold it true, what'er befall;
    I feel it, when I sorrow most;
    'Tis better to have loved and lost;
    Than never to have loved at all."

    Alfred Tennyson

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