10-14-2019, 01:51 AM
See, Ferret, when I'm ready to swap bikes, your brother is the guy I'm going to be looking for! I always buy used, low mile bikes that people bought, then never rode, then sold cheap once their wife said "If you're never going to ride it, get it out of our garage!"
On the OCD thing, my friends constantly rib me that I must have been separated from James May at birth. Yes, just as he, the vents in my car all line up. I am aware that I'm not normal, but my wife spends more time in the garden than I do on the cars and bikes. She looks at her plants with pride, I gaze at the garage, we're both happy, and nobody gets hurt.
My riding situation makes it easy to keep a bike clean. I commute six days a week on fairly clean freeways, and I split that between two bikes which keeps my mileage on the low side. I have no time to do any recreational riding. I tend to keep a bike for a few years, then swap it out when something else calls to me. Once I buy a bike, I'll spend a few days detailing it. Then, just a quick wipe down every few days with detail spray and protectant keeps them nice, which for whatever reason, makes me calm and happy. And, when it's time to sell, I've got an idiotically clean, lower mileage machine that will get snapped up within a few days for higher than retail, which gives me the money and freedom to pick something else out.
On the OCD thing, my friends constantly rib me that I must have been separated from James May at birth. Yes, just as he, the vents in my car all line up. I am aware that I'm not normal, but my wife spends more time in the garden than I do on the cars and bikes. She looks at her plants with pride, I gaze at the garage, we're both happy, and nobody gets hurt.
My riding situation makes it easy to keep a bike clean. I commute six days a week on fairly clean freeways, and I split that between two bikes which keeps my mileage on the low side. I have no time to do any recreational riding. I tend to keep a bike for a few years, then swap it out when something else calls to me. Once I buy a bike, I'll spend a few days detailing it. Then, just a quick wipe down every few days with detail spray and protectant keeps them nice, which for whatever reason, makes me calm and happy. And, when it's time to sell, I've got an idiotically clean, lower mileage machine that will get snapped up within a few days for higher than retail, which gives me the money and freedom to pick something else out.