Hmm, Maybe I Should Be an HP Velotechnik Dealer?
I feel like an ambassador! Or a traveling circus...so many have wanted
to take a picture of my bike...I've now taken to just referring them to the google keywords of "smgte" and "recumbent"...too bad I'm not in business! Just as well: most folks won't be able to afford it -- they'd think a $600 ActionBent is crazy, never mind ~$3.5K for a souped-up HP Velo SMGTe! Wish I'd thought of getting air-sprung suspension for the front, too, like with a White Bros. fork or something...seems silly having a basically regular steel spring up there when I've got a nice air shock in the rear. My front brakes keep getting misaligned or something on account of all the potholes I go over...no problem at all with the rear disc! I wonder what it takes to be an HP Velo dealer...NYC certainly needs one! It's amazing the anti-'bent bias from the LBSes...it's mild, but definitely the one guy (the snarky racer guy I'd mentioned in the old thread about bad bike shop manners) said to me yesterday, "Dude! What happened, the last time I saw you, you were insisting on a Trek, and now you've got into this...this whole sub-culture...!" Another bike shop was only mildly interested in helping me with mechanical issues on it. Interestingly, I see a 'bent-rider almost every time I go out for a ride! Unfortunately, I don't really see them on the streets, but in parks. I can't wait for the day when I can be just another bicyclist on my 'bent! Though I'd miss that "respect" and wide berth motorists give as they slow down to gawk. I still haven't had any honk at me for being slow starting up on a hill or for taking up the whole lane! Also can't wait for them hydrogen fuel cell cars so I am no longer about eye-level with the exhaust...blech! |
Hmm, maybe you should be posting somewhere else
"NYC XYZ" wrote in message ups.com... I feel like an ambassador! Or a traveling circus...so many have wanted to take a picture of my bike...I've now taken to just referring them to the google keywords of "smgte" and "recumbent"...too bad I'm not in business! Just as well: most folks won't be able to afford it -- they'd think a $600 ActionBent is crazy, never mind ~$3.5K for a souped-up HP Velo SMGTe! Wish I'd thought of getting air-sprung suspension for the front, too, like with a White Bros. fork or something...seems silly having a basically regular steel spring up there when I've got a nice air shock in the rear. My front brakes keep getting misaligned or something on account of all the potholes I go over...no problem at all with the rear disc! I wonder what it takes to be an HP Velo dealer...NYC certainly needs one! It's amazing the anti-'bent bias from the LBSes...it's mild, but definitely the one guy (the snarky racer guy I'd mentioned in the old thread about bad bike shop manners) said to me yesterday, "Dude! What happened, the last time I saw you, you were insisting on a Trek, and now you've got into this...this whole sub-culture...!" Another bike shop was only mildly interested in helping me with mechanical issues on it. Interestingly, I see a 'bent-rider almost every time I go out for a ride! Unfortunately, I don't really see them on the streets, but in parks. I can't wait for the day when I can be just another bicyclist on my 'bent! Though I'd miss that "respect" and wide berth motorists give as they slow down to gawk. I still haven't had any honk at me for being slow starting up on a hill or for taking up the whole lane! Also can't wait for them hydrogen fuel cell cars so I am no longer about eye-level with the exhaust...blech! |
Are you selling something or want to buy something?
NO... and it's funny how you didn't appear until after the previous annoying bent rider poster was booted for posting links to his ridiculous bent blog... maybe it's time for you to get banned as well...
"NYC XYZ" wrote in message ups.com... I feel like an ambassador! Or a traveling circus...so many have wanted to take a picture of my bike...I've now taken to just referring them to the google keywords of "smgte" and "recumbent"...too bad I'm not in business! Just as well: most folks won't be able to afford it -- they'd think a $600 ActionBent is crazy, never mind ~$3.5K for a souped-up HP Velo SMGTe! Wish I'd thought of getting air-sprung suspension for the front, too, like with a White Bros. fork or something...seems silly having a basically regular steel spring up there when I've got a nice air shock in the rear. My front brakes keep getting misaligned or something on account of all the potholes I go over...no problem at all with the rear disc! I wonder what it takes to be an HP Velo dealer...NYC certainly needs one! It's amazing the anti-'bent bias from the LBSes...it's mild, but definitely the one guy (the snarky racer guy I'd mentioned in the old thread about bad bike shop manners) said to me yesterday, "Dude! What happened, the last time I saw you, you were insisting on a Trek, and now you've got into this...this whole sub-culture...!" Another bike shop was only mildly interested in helping me with mechanical issues on it. Interestingly, I see a 'bent-rider almost every time I go out for a ride! Unfortunately, I don't really see them on the streets, but in parks. I can't wait for the day when I can be just another bicyclist on my 'bent! Though I'd miss that "respect" and wide berth motorists give as they slow down to gawk. I still haven't had any honk at me for being slow starting up on a hill or for taking up the whole lane! Also can't wait for them hydrogen fuel cell cars so I am no longer about eye-level with the exhaust...blech! |
Are you selling something or want to buy something?
You really shouldn't be crossposting to the marketplace group, NYC. Bad form.
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Hmm, Maybe I Should Be an HP Velotechnik Dealer?
being slow starting up on a hill or for taking up the whole lane! Also can't wait for them hydrogen fuel cell cars so I am no longer about eye-level with the exhaust...blech! There's a hill in NYC? -- John Kimmel GET YER STINKING PAWS OFF ME YOU DAMN DIRTY APE! |
Hmm, Maybe I Should Be an HP Velotechnik Dealer?
John Kimmel wrote: There's a hill in NYC? -- John Kimmel GET YER STINKING PAWS OFF ME YOU DAMN DIRTY APE! Oh hell yeah! So far, I've been able to negotiate them all, I'm happy -- and rather proud, considering the 'bent is ~37-lbs. -- to say. Basically, as you go uptown, and particular in the Bronx, you encounter a lot of hills. On the West Side bike path, just yards from right under the GWB, you will find two very steep climbs. They're short, but steep, and one of them curves sharply, so it's a bit of a challenge not only to spin your pedals on a 'bent like the SMGTe but also keep balanced! |
Are you selling something or want to buy something?
Gooserider wrote: You really shouldn't be crossposting to the marketplace group, NYC. Bad form. Don't know what the big deal is. I'm only half-joking in wondering what's involved in becoming a specialty bike dealer. In this age of the internet, it's probably profitably possible. Since this is a marketplace newsgroup, that question seems rather on-topic. |
Are you selling something or want to buy something?
"NYC XYZ" wrote in message oups.com... Gooserider wrote: You really shouldn't be crossposting to the marketplace group, NYC. Bad form. Don't know what the big deal is. I'm only half-joking in wondering what's involved in becoming a specialty bike dealer. In this age of the internet, it's probably profitably possible. Since this is a marketplace newsgroup, that question seems rather on-topic. You aren't selling anything. The .marketplace NG is for the selling of items. That's the big deal. |
THIS NEWSGROUP IS NOT FOR YOUR CHATTING NYC XYZ
I don't think you're listening... stop chatting here... find a newsgroup for
people like you. "NYC XYZ" wrote in message ups.com... John Kimmel wrote: There's a hill in NYC? -- John Kimmel GET YER STINKING PAWS OFF ME YOU DAMN DIRTY APE! Oh hell yeah! So far, I've been able to negotiate them all, I'm happy -- and rather proud, considering the 'bent is ~37-lbs. -- to say. Basically, as you go uptown, and particular in the Bronx, you encounter a lot of hills. On the West Side bike path, just yards from right under the GWB, you will find two very steep climbs. They're short, but steep, and one of them curves sharply, so it's a bit of a challenge not only to spin your pedals on a 'bent like the SMGTe but also keep balanced! |
Are you selling something or want to buy something?
Gooserider wrote: You aren't selling anything. The .marketplace NG is for the selling of items. That's the big deal. I have to sell something here to post here? I have a question about a part of the bicycle market. It's on-topic enough for me. I'm not forcing you to read. Really don't know what's the big deal. |
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