advice for supterfuge when buiding new bike
boristhespie
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Okay so bought loads of bits (they're Christmas presents dear, for you, honest) but can anyone suggest methods for passing off my new bike build when it is revealed to an other half who just, after 4 years in our house, realised I had 4 bikes already.
Be comical.
Be comical.
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Always buy black bikes. Not funny I know, but effective. It appears the other half cant tell one black bike from another.A Flock of Birds
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MTFU and grow some.I don't do smileys.
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Make sure they are all a similar colour, like when looking at cars 'I want a red one' women can't tell the same colour bikes apart.....FACT
That or just tell her you washed one of the others!Currently riding a Whyte T130C, X0 drivetrain, Magura Trail brakes converted to mixed wheel size (homebuilt wheels) with 140mm Fox 34 Rhythm and RP23 suspension. 12.2Kg.0 -
Justify it in pints beer / week,
a £1500 bike is 2 pints / week for 4 years, my wife uses that back at me when I'm dithering over a big spend!Trek Stache 8 29er
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Say one is hers - don't worry she'll never actually ride it. If she does just change the pedals & hey presto.
Also compare it to the number of shoes she has - she'll love that.'Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible' Marcel Proust.0 -
never buy a whole bike, always do your own builds and maintenance
ideally have one in a permanent state of repair/rebuild so that it's hard to say how many bikes you have just an area of the shed where bikesthings are..."I get paid to make other people suffer on my wheel, how good is that"
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Men should always have more than one ride, we evolved from having bands of ladiez after-all. Having n+1 bikes is better than you going out all night and getting your other rides in some seedy club toilet with a soiled vixen!0
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Don't tell Cooldad that!bluechair84 wrote:better than you going out all night and getting your other rides in some seedy club toilet with a soiled vixen!Currently riding a Whyte T130C, X0 drivetrain, Magura Trail brakes converted to mixed wheel size (homebuilt wheels) with 140mm Fox 34 Rhythm and RP23 suspension. 12.2Kg.0 -
have a day washing all the bikes and just add it in.....opinions are worth exactly what you pay for them ;-)
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I would definitely go with the piles of bits in the garage approach. Only 'trailworthy' bikes count as 'bikes', everything else counts as 'spares'.Vitus Sentier VR+ (2018) GT Grade AL 105 (2016)
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YeehaaMcgee wrote:
Geniusedhornby wrote:ideally have one in a permanent state of repair/rebuild so that it's hard to say how many bikes you have just an area of the shed where bikesthings are...
This works, as does the 'I'm fixing it for a mate' and 'I built from all my spares' along with the 'its a cycle scheme clearance bike'.Visit Clacton during the School holidays - it's like a never ending freak show.
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In the words of the immortal Marc BolanThe Beginner wrote:
Don't tell Cooldad that!bluechair84 wrote:better than you going out all night and getting your other rides in some seedy club toilet with a soiled vixen!
"But I can't get no satisfaction all I want is easy action."I don't do smileys.
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All very good you morally corrupt bunch ; )
My other half hadn't been in the bike bit of the garage for 4 years and had to go in a couple of weeks ago and saw the 4 bikes. The bummer of it as I had the bits stashed in my wardrobe and other stashes.
Could try "it's for you" but she has continually said she does NOT want another bike in the house. She uses my 88 Kona.
Apparently we can't afford it. Plus a Ragley blue pig is hardly novice friendly.
So bits of bikes couls be good idea. I'm thinking police auction bargain.0 -
edhornby wrote:ideally have one in a permanent state of repair/rebuild so that it's hard to say how many bikes you have just an area of the shed where bikesthings are... good stuff. So easy too, just take the wheels off and leave it upside-down with a spanner next to it... "Why have that extra tooth if you're not using it?" - Brian Lopes
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boristhespie wrote:My other half hadn't been in the bike bit of the garage for 4 years and had to go in a couple of weeks ago and saw the 4 bikes
Unfortunatly the bikes are in the garage...as is the washing machine, so she's in and out of there all day but there's already a set of 'spare' wheels in there so don't reckon she'd notice if they were joined together with a £600 AM frame
"Why have that extra tooth if you're not using it?" - Brian Lopes
Votec V.SX Enduro 'Alpine Thug' 2012/2013 build
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