Another free bike - Oh, joy!

"Frobnicator"? is that a word???

Define, please. :-3)

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And a really low gear for the hills!"

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(maxo) wrote:
I gave it to my buddy Tom for his fortieth
and the sight of a sturdy ex-marine
tooling about on a kids bike (fit him well,
he's shorter) with no look of irony on his
face was priceless.

D

One thing I have noticed in my travels, trials and tribulations through
this world is that there is no such animal as an "_ex_marine"!

The brainwashing/reprogramming of that particular service is
irreversible by any means known to man. Anybody who has had a
subervisor, foreman or boss who was in that particular service knows
this! LOL!!

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And a really low gear for the hills!"

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In article ,
(Chris Zacho "The Wheelman") writes:
"Frobnicator"? is that a word???

Define, please. :-3)

Here ya go:
http://www.hyperdictionary.com/computing/frobnicate


cheers,
Tom

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In article ,
"Eric S. Sande" writes:
Rarely do I find worthwhile bikes at garage sales. But I've not been
looking hard either. I don't really have room or need for another bike
but if one comes my way I'll not turn it down.

I'll do the rounds of local places on the weekends, but I'm just
speculating. If I see a good deal I'll go for it but I'm not really
in the market for a bike right now.

Except that I'd like to replace my commuter with something in Ti,
that guy out in the West has that, I thought I'd ask him.

I'm always vigilantly keeping a wether-eye open for a
good wheelset being practically given away by someone
who doesn't know what they've got. I mean, with
throw-away bikes, there's only so much of this Araya
and Alex crap one can put up with.

If good wheels come with a redundant bike attached to
them, so be it. I'll just chuck the extraneous bits
in someone's open dumpster somewhere, under cover of
darkness.


cheers,
Tom

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Tom Keats wrote in part:

I'm now on the lookout for another milk crate.

When I read that I shed a single tear like
the Indian in the anti-littering commercial.

Robert

In article ,
(Tom Keats) wrote:

In article ,
"Eric S. Sande" writes:
Rarely do I find worthwhile bikes at garage sales. But I've not been
looking hard either. I don't really have room or need for another bike
but if one comes my way I'll not turn it down.

I'll do the rounds of local places on the weekends, but I'm just
speculating. If I see a good deal I'll go for it but I'm not really
in the market for a bike right now.

Except that I'd like to replace my commuter with something in Ti,
that guy out in the West has that, I thought I'd ask him.

I'm always vigilantly keeping a wether-eye open for a
good wheelset being practically given away by someone
who doesn't know what they've got. I mean, with
throw-away bikes, there's only so much of this Araya
and Alex crap one can put up with.

Yeah, well, you get any, er, crappy Arayas or Alexes coming your way, do
me a favour and leave them behind my house.

That said, I'm darned close to full of freewheel 26" wheels. But Araya
also made 27" and 700c rims.

--
Ryan Cousineau, http://www.wiredcola.com
Verus de parvis; verus de magnis.

In article ,
(R15757) writes:
Tom Keats wrote in part:

I'm now on the lookout for another milk crate.

When I read that I shed a single tear like
the Indian in the anti-littering commercial.

Don't worry, I was just pullin' yer leg. Fact is,
my current, utilitarianly set-up main bike (the
Norco Bigfoot) is very heavy, and this agile 'new'
one is too much of a welcome relief from that to
encumber with add-ons. This shall be my Back-2-Basics
runabout. I'm considering getting some inverted-tread
tires for it. And maybe a pair of studded platform
pedals to replace the plain rubber flatties it came with.
I've already got some metallized plastic Esge fenders
for it. That'll probably be the full extent of what I'll
do to it.


cheers,
Tom

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"maxo" wrote in message
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On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 15:08:29 -0700, Tom Keats wrote:

OH NO HE'S MILK CRATING A TRAIL BIKE!!!

Best laugh I've had on a Monday morning in a long time.


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On 2004-10-04, Chris Zacho "The Wheelman" wrote:

"Frobnicator"? is that a word???

Define, please. :-3)

Derived from "frob" and "frobnicate"


"Jargon File (4.3.0, 30 APR 2001)"
frobnicate /frob'ni-kayt/ vt. Poss. derived from frobnitz, and
usually abbreviated to frob, but `frobnicate' is recognized as the
official full form. To manipulate or adjust, to tweak. One frequently
frobs bits or other 2-state devices. Thus: "Please frob the light
switch" (that is, flip it), but also "Stop frobbing that clasp; you'll
break it". One also sees the construction `to frob a frob'. See tweak
and twiddle.

Usage: frob, twiddle, and tweak sometimes connote points along a
continuum. `Frob' connotes aimless manipulation; `twiddle' connotes
gross manipulation, often a coarse search for a proper setting; `tweak'
connotes fine-tuning. If someone is turning a knob on an oscilloscope,
then if he's carefully adjusting it, he is probably tweaking it; if he
is just turning it but looking at the screen, he is probably twiddling
it; but if he's just doing it because turning a knob is fun, he's
frobbing it. The variant `frobnosticate' has been recently reported.


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In article ,
Ryan Cousineau writes:

I'm always vigilantly keeping a wether-eye open for a
good wheelset being practically given away by someone
who doesn't know what they've got. I mean, with
throw-away bikes, there's only so much of this Araya
and Alex crap one can put up with.

Yeah, well, you get any, er, crappy Arayas or Alexes coming your way, do
me a favour and leave them behind my house.

All I'm saying is, should I spot a $10 garage-sale bike with
a nice set of Mavic or Sun rims on it, I'll be right in there
like a dirty sock.


cheers,
Tom

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