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After clicking on the link you provided I'm sorry I did. How someone could take a 6000 mile bike that looked like that one did and turn it into what he did is beyond me.

I really hope you stole it from the PO because anyone that stupid deserves to lose his ass financially. I've always said if your IQ doesn't have 3 digits then you shouldn't be allowed to buy tools. This is a case in point. Good luck with your new project I hope you can turn it into a decent bike again.

Welcome Ryan, where in Spokane are you? South Hill guy here.

The Gringo wrote: After clicking on the link you provided I'm sorry I did. How someone could take a 6000 mile bike that looked like that one did and turn it into what he did is beyond me.

I really hope you stole it from the PO because anyone that stupid deserves to lose his ass financially. I've always said if your IQ doesn't have 3 digits then you shouldn't be allowed to buy tools. This is a case in point. Good luck with your new project I hope you can turn it into a decent bike again.

Well... let me put it this way - I can see what he was trying to do. Personally, I like the general style, but I think the execution was a fail.

But yeah that bike was pristine... and yeah I got it for almost nothing, so I've got a budget to make it into something better than it is.

damarble wrote: Welcome Ryan, where in Spokane are you? South Hill guy here.

North side.... got a big shop, which I assume I'll need cuz I have a lot of work to do on this bike

The Gringo wrote: After clicking on the link you provided I'm sorry I did. How someone could take a 6000 mile bike that looked like that one did and turn it into what he did is beyond me.

I really hope you stole it from the PO because anyone that stupid deserves to lose his ass financially. I've always said if your IQ doesn't have 3 digits then you shouldn't be allowed to buy tools. This is a case in point. Good luck with your new project I hope you can turn it into a decent bike again.

Someone should cut that guy's nuts off for f'n up that nice bike. And of course, after he screwed it up he sold it; isn't that always the way? Ed

650ed wrote:

The Gringo wrote: After clicking on the link you provided I'm sorry I did. How someone could take a 6000 mile bike that looked like that one did and turn it into what he did is beyond me.

I really hope you stole it from the PO because anyone that stupid deserves to lose his ass financially. I've always said if your IQ doesn't have 3 digits then you shouldn't be allowed to buy tools. This is a case in point. Good luck with your new project I hope you can turn it into a decent bike again.

Someone should cut that guy's nuts off for f'n up that nice bike. And of course, after he screwed it up he sold it; isn't that always the way? Ed

Ed, I think it's due to all the "reality" TV shows about custom bike builders. Seems these days anybody with a $10.00 Harbor Freight angle grinder and a few wrenches thinks they are the next Paul Teutel in the making. It shouldn't piss me off, because everytime some asshole butchers a nice bike it just makes bikes like ours that much more rare, but it still does. To quote Ron White "You can't fix stupid".

I agree 100%

well dammit now you guys are making me want to take it down to the frame and start over.