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Handebar broke off - nasty cash
On Wed, 07 Aug 2019 08:05:45 -0700, Joerg
wrote: On 2019-08-06 16:20, John B. Slocomb wrote: On Tue, 06 Aug 2019 07:49:44 -0700, Joerg wrote: On 2019-08-06 00:55, John B. Slocomb wrote: On Mon, 05 Aug 2019 13:55:13 -0700, Joerg wrote: On 2019-08-05 13:36, Tom Kunich wrote: [...] Nothing is permanent in this world so I got used to it. However, one should seek the more permanent stuff versus the less than permanent stuff. It's like with cars. Japanese ones are among the best but even they break down. My wife's Toyota developed a steering rack leak afer 23 years. Unbelievable. Only 23 years. $940 later it's all fixed. At least it didn't fail on the road, just very gradually. My Mitsubishi is 22 years and, nada. Not even a dome light has had the audacity to burn out. I sure wish bicycle manufacturers would learn about that level of quality. I see a 2020 Mitsubishi Eclipse, weighing in the neighborhood of 3500 lbs.and costing US$ 24,085. I suggest that anyone selling bicycles built to those standards probably make a "live for ever" bicycle. That Mitsubishi can comfortably carry four people, baggae and if needed a small trailer. Mine (Montero Sport) can carry half a ton of firewood, and has, many times. A bicycle only needs to carry ne rider and modest baggage. How much effort and weight would it have taken to coat the steel stiffener tube before pressing it in? 0.01oz? 0.02oz? Yes, they could do better. You are defining the needs of autos and bicycles in a manner that "proves" your points and is wholly false. You appear to claim that an auto is capable of carrying 4 people and baggage and a half ton of firewood and thus is a "standard" for autos. It is in many areas around where I live. ... But I owned a MG that could carry two passengers and a tiny amount of luggage and no firewood at all. Not a very useful car for El Dorado County but it all depends on your lifestyle. I you stay on paved roads and do not need to haul firewood a MG Sports is fun. A neighbor has one. Visiting friends of ours on dirt roads, not so much. That requires a high ground clearance vehicle or an MTB. You say that a bicycle carries the rider and a modest amount of barrage yet Frank frequently mentions his bicycle that carries both himself and his wife and when I was in Vietnam the guys in the welding shop built "a bicycle built for 5" and test rode it on the parking ramp. I do not ride on parking ramps. I ride on trails a lot. It hardly seems logical to compare a $24,000, 3.500 lb behemoth with a bicycle but you do it all the time and than when someone argues you start talking about tons of wood. sigh A bicycle carries _one_ rider (or a tandem two) and a modest amount of luggage. Therefore, when a good bicycle costs $2k I expect it to be of similar quality as mu SUV which has cost me $18k and can haul more than 10x the weight in terms of payload. You certainly don't make much sense. Your "cheap" bike should be as marvelous as your $24,000 auto? Simply more proof that you are slanting your selections to prove your point. For example, you want to own a "sedan" that can haul a half ton of wood, and you seem to think that all your neighbors select this sort of vehicle as a standard. Ridiculous. People that want to haul tons of firewood select trucks to haul it. I might point out that I, or according to my wife "we" own a sort of SUV thing that probably haul a half ton of cargo, but would my wife allow that sort of bizarre business? Nope, she'd say Don't use my car to haul wood, use your truck and in terms of maximum cargo that the truck is capable of carrying, we are likely talking about tons of cargo, not a paltry 1/2 ton. So based on your specification of carrying firewood my second hand pickup is a far better selection that your $24,000 firewood hauler. -- Cheers, John B. |
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