Re: Patching TPU innertube

On Fri, 3 Jan 2025 18:04:13 -0500, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

On 1/3/2025 1:25 PM, AMuzi wrote:

On 1/3/2025 11:21 AM, Catrike Rider wrote:

I don't know how
anyone gets along without a pickup truck or a van.

 
Good point.
 
I'm unimpressed with the genre (I owned a $100 pickup for four years as
a winter vehicle and had no complaints, but I didn't love it either).
 
Conversely, Ford and GM pickups trade #1 and #2 for most popular vehicle
in USA and have led that list for decades so someone besides you sees
value in them.

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Fashion is weird and powerful. Fashion has people devoting hours to
watching game shows on TV, putting high maintenance wooden decks on the
back of their houses, buying the same big fancy outdoor grill as their
neighbors, buying bikes with more gears than they ever use, bikes with
super-narrow tires... oops, no, now it's much wider tires, etc.

Poor, bitter old Krygowski posts another compaint about people doing
things that have no tangable effect on him.  How dare people buy
things that Krygowski says they don't need.

Fashion drives the sale of lots of pickup trucks. Not all, admittedly,
but it certainly boosts sales.

<shrug> Perhaps it does. Fashion drives many things. In fact, some
people think it fashionable to wear a shirt that announces their
mebership in a club.
 

How do people live without a pickup truck? Well, I built a utility
trailer decades ago. I use it maybe once per year.

Oh, I have a trailer too. I pull it with my truck.

Most people would use
one even less, but they still buy pickup trucks, just in case the bags
of mulch won't fit in their trunk someday.

What makes you think you know what most people would do? You live in a
tiny little bubble in a tiny little house.

Actually, I'm delighted that my wife and I buying a pickup truck
upsets you so.  My wife thinks I enjoy irritating you. I tell her I
don't have to do anything special to pull your strings. I just do what
I do and stand back to see you whine and complain.

I suspect most people buy a pickup truck because they want a pickup
truck. That's why I've always had one.

By the way, my wife doesn't want the truck because of fashion. She
just likes to sit up high so she can see over the little cars. I told
her that would upset you.  She just smiled.