boardie bike ride?

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

What about crack babies born without legs?
 
 

Originally posted by O'Mankie:
  all kids should have a bike, no matter what the price you pay for it.  

[ggw]

http://www.cyclingforums.com/t23828.html

[markie]

Originally posted by O'Mankie:
  *this is were, if my dad was still alive, he'd be telling us how he had to go to the scrap heap and find bits to build his own first bike when he was a kid.*
 
 
 

Yeah and I bet when it was done it was better than that piece of honda shit.
 
 Your really are a tight git aren't you. You bemoan not riding a boutique bike, but dont you have an ultegra equipped 853 framed road bike?  :p  
 
 Kids bikes have poor resale because most of them are shit to begin with. If you buy an OK bike it will have ok resale and might not break hurting the rider and putting them off cycling forever.

[kosmo vinyl]

Originally posted by brennser:
   

The same goes for guitars by the way...

yeah, good musical instruments in general are beaucoup bucks [/b]

yeah but look how far the ramones got with their cheap guitars...

[Frank Gallagher]

Originally posted by Miss MaRpIe:
   

 [/b]

Your really are a tight git aren't you. You bemoan not riding a boutique bike, but dont you have an ultegra equipped 853 framed road bike?    
 
 My point was quite simple, but still missed by some dopes    I was just saying don't waste a fortune on a fancy bike until you know your child is going to love biking....and I was in my 40's before I got to spend a handsome fee for a bike so not being a hypocrit.

[markie]

Originally posted by O'Mankie:
  don't waste a fortune on a fancy bike until you know your child is going to love biking....and I was in my 40's before I got to spend a handsome fee for a bike so not being a hypocrit.

But my point is if you dont "waste a fortune" on a decent bike your child might never love cycling.
 
 The difference between spending $200 at the local bike shop and $100 at wal-mart is vast.

[pip]

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
  I had a Huffy when I was a kid. It did me fine.

Me too. I was able to push it to the top of the biggest hill in the neighborhood and ride it down really fast. That's all I wanted my bike to do at the time and I was happy with it. And I abused the hell out of it too so an expensive bike would probably have been a bad idea for me. But knowing what I know now about bike quality and safety, if I had kids, I would be getting them something better than a Huffy.

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

to get back to the original topic, when can I look forward to shaving my legs and putting on my spandex shorts to ride with you guys?

[Frank Gallagher]

Originally posted by CRT DODO MOO:
  to get back to the original topic, when can I look forward to shaving my legs and putting on my spandex shorts to ride with you guys?

What the hell does a bike have to do with that?

[jkeisenh]

Originally posted by O'Mankie:
  What the hell does a bike have to do with that?

Well, that's a silly question.
 
 I return to my 2pm, April 9 (Sat), meet at, say, Woodley Park Metro.  We can finish up with $.25 pints of high life at Asylum at 5pm.
 
 This is just a proposal.  Other ideas?

[Jaguär]

Originally posted by O'Mankie:
   

Originally posted by CRT DODO MOO:
  to get back to the original topic, when can I look forward to shaving my legs and putting on my spandex shorts to ride with you guys?

What the hell does a bike have to do with that? [/b]

Don't know about the bike but he lives on or near Dupont Circle which has everything to do with that.    :p

[green door]

Crack babies without legs go in the basket. Like Toto.

[jkeisenh]

ok, ok, so my job is sending me to a meeting in Ohio this Saturday.  that and this thread died.
 
 Would folks be ok with a Saturday, April 23 ride?
 How about meeting at 3pm in Dupont Circle.  (suburbanites: take your bike on metro to get there!) We can ride down to the mall, around hanes point, and then up rock creek to Adams Morgan, finishing with $.25 pints of high life at Asylum at 5pm.
 
 In case of rain, just meet at Asylum at 5pm.
 
 Anyone who needs to borrow a bike, let me know.
 
 Sound OK?  Changes?  Ideas?

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

I'll be out of town for the next 6 months but have fun without me!

[markie]

Well my folks will be in town that weekend, so have a better than imaginable time without me.