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We got a super blessing yesterday at a local bike shop. My wife found this bike and got it with racks,bags,panniers and suitcase, for $550. It fits her like it was made for her and for any of you who know bikes. we paid about 1/10th of what it would have cost new. I told her I was very jealous she got to ride Cathy Duncan and I didn't.LOL ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/Vks6DIZ.jpg) One cool part of the story is that she had her first good bike stolen in Washington years ago. It was purple too. She told me on the way home that this was as if her old bike had come back to her but 1000X's better.
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I don't know much about road bikes, but congrats to your wife!
Mercy ceases to be a virtue when it enables further injustice. -Brent Weeks
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Cool beans!  First thing, check the grease on the wheel bearings. I ruined a set of good hubs once by not doing that.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
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Cool beans! First thing, check the grease on the wheel bearings. I ruined a set of good hubs once by not doing that. Mechanic said he has checked it out fully. I think the shop must have made some sort of trade and had nothing in it cause i would have sworn the guy first told me he wanted $700.Because of our work It was a week later when I could get back to the shop and let my wife try the bike. I let him price his bike and this time it was $550. I was going to buy it for $700. The guy had basically rebuilt my 1983 Miyata 610 with new bearings through out for what I considered a great price and I didn't even haggle any farther on the bike.It was just so perfect for her and exactly what she needed at the time.
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I’m not a bike person, except for when I was a kid
But isn’t that a boy’s bike?
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Now you can go riding with Paul Bernard!!
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I’m not a bike person, except for when I was a kid
But isn’t that a boy’s bike?
No way buddy,just look at those curves. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/xo2mIi3.jpg)
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Hopefully there's bike paths where you live, it really sucks trying to pass bicycles in a dually truck on a two lane road. Is there a road use tax on bicycles?
Life is good live it while you can.
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Hopefully there's bike paths where you live, it really sucks trying to pass bicycles in a dually truck on a two lane road. Is there a road use tax on bicycles? Oh! Now you did it. All hell is going to come down on you now!!!
Well we're Green and we're Gold, and we play better when it's cold. All us Cheese heads have our favorite superstar. We love Brett Favre.
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needs a whicker basket for Toto......
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Hopefully there's bike paths where you live, it really sucks trying to pass bicycles in a dually truck on a two lane road. Is there a road use tax on bicycles? I use to have that attitude when I needed a dually to haul my lard ass around. Now I just get out of the way,try not choke on the exhaust coming from that machine you are mortgaging your life to ride around in,and wish you could have as much fun as I'm having.
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Come on Man!
Enough with the suspense!.... show us how the thing breaks down for easy travel....
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Hopefully there's bike paths where you live, it really sucks trying to pass bicycles in a dually truck on a two lane road. Is there a road use tax on bicycles? It's hell to slow down a bit and then pull over to pass ain't it!
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Hopefully there's bike paths where you live, it really sucks trying to pass bicycles in a dually truck on a two lane road. Is there a road use tax on bicycles? I use to have that attitude when I needed a dually to haul my lard ass around. Now I just get out of the way,try not choke on the exhaust coming from that machine you are mortgaging your life to ride around in,and wish you could have as much fun as I'm having. I'm not jealous in the least, I couldn't wait to turn 15 and buy a motorcycle so I didn't have to peddle my azz around anymore.
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Hopefully there's bike paths where you live, it really sucks trying to pass bicycles in a dually truck on a two lane road. Is there a road use tax on bicycles? I use to have that attitude when I needed a dually to haul my lard ass around. Now I just get out of the way,try not choke on the exhaust coming from that machine you are mortgaging your life to ride around in,and wish you could have as much fun as I'm having. I'm not jealous in the least, I couldn't wait to turn 15 and buy a motorcycle so I didn't have to peddle my azz around anymore. I get it,but I'm going through a strange mid life crisis where I think I'm 15 again, feels good though.
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Very nice. I second a request to see those couplers in action.
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Didn’t notice it comes apart first time around. Somebody thought a great deal of that bike to install those things.
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