Re: Ebay prices

On 4/9/2025 11:04 AM, Zen Cycle wrote:

On 4/8/2025 6:38 PM, Shadow wrote:

On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 18:19:44 -0400, Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
wrote:
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On 4/8/2025 5:42 PM, AMuzi wrote:

On 4/8/2025 4:38 PM, Zen Cycle wrote:

On 4/8/2025 5:29 PM, Shadow wrote:

On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 13:06:16 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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On 4/7/2025 2:01 PM, cyclintom wrote:

On Sun Apr 6 19:12:56 2025 Frank Krygowski  wrote:

On 4/6/2025 6:04 PM, cyclintom wrote:

Yesterday, I was fixing flats on three different bikes. I went up
to Robinson's and picked up some new tubes because the flats are
all pin holes and I've never successfully repaired those. I fix
one hole and another appears 3 inchs away. Nothing in the tire.

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Wow. So many problems!

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So now Frank is telling us that he never gets flats.

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Not at all, Tom! I've described here getting something like three flats
within 15 miles. I've described other flats as well. Flats are a normal
part of bicycling.
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But I do know how to successfully fix flats. Your "I've never
successfully repaired those. I fix one hole and another appears 3 inchs
away." is very, very unusual.

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     If there's a piece of fine wire in the tire repairing the
inner tube will not prevent a flat a few minutes later.
     Fine wire is very common in our asphalt, which is made of
recycled truck/car tires (plus other stuff). It's the tires that have
those nasty stainless steel wires.
     I always run my finger round the inside of the tire before
replacing the repaired inner tube. I usually simultaneously find the
culprit and puncture my finger..

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Tom has complained about wire flats before. He blamed it on Biden.
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     []'s

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Biden had his own sins but I'd bet we wasn't driving around on auto
tires worn through until the steel wires shred.  Not in Oakland at any rate
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He blamed bidens economic policies for creating an economic depression
in california such that "nobody" could afford new tires and "everyone"
was driving around on tires so worn that the belts were fraying and
littering the roadways with bits of steel wire.
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https://groups.google.com/g/rec.bicycles.tech/c/eAEXNTV6WKg
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I stand corrected, first he blamed obama:
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"During Obama and his Great Recession that the Stupid 4+1 don't believe
was there hero Obama's fault, pe3ople without work would run their tires
until the steel casing broke through and would bleed steel particles all
over the road causing bicycles endless problems with flat tires almost
constantly. This did NOT stop until Trump entered office and then
disappeared almost overnight."
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Note how the mere presence of trump in the whitehouse magically made all
those wire shreds disappear "overnight".
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_THEN_ he blamed Biden
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"Biden trumped Obama by doing the same thing in three years."

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    On the upside, he does have a very vivid imagination. His
dreams now must be like Paradise, with Trump fixing all the things
that make being poor unbearable.
    A world with no flats, no hunger, no inadequate welfare
checks, plenty of cheap or even free food, housing and medical care
etc... You have to envy that.
    []'s

   Not to forget everyone got new tires for their cars!
 

We can dream.
In a perfect world, Michelin would still make VR speed rated 13s. Miss those.
--
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971