Tubus Cosmo Rack = Expensive Crap for Posers

On Jun 7, 2:04*am, Tºm Shermªn °_° ""twshermanREMOVE\"@THI
$southslope.net" wrote:

If only we could all be like Jute, and go around destroying motor
vehicles at traffic lights.

Nah, you don't have the cojones, Liddell Tommi.

Anyway, you don't have the facts right. I don't wait until the traffic
lights. Traffic jams and supermarket carparks do me as well, the more
witnesses the merrier -- that's the whole point of a deterrent
punishment.

Andre Jute
Standing tall for cyclists' rights

On Jun 7, 2:18*am, Tºm Shermªn °_° ""twshermanREMOVE\"@THI
$southslope.net" wrote:
On 6/6/2011 7:29 PM, Andre Jute wrote:

[...] What you fail to grasp,
Springer, is that I used to be in the business of putting dreams in
the heads of big spenders like you (your fridge, your garage and your
wardrobe is full of overpriced crap I made you want)[...]

Refrigerator: Primarily unadvertised brands (mostly house brands).

Wardrobe: Designer labels - a couple of items that were picked up from
the give-away table (free) and thrift stores (because they were dirt cheap).

Garage/Driveway: Banged up and unwashed Honda Civic urban rat runner,
and scratched, dented, and unwashed Nissan Frontier work truck. *Some
'bents from a specialty builder who only had a couple of small
advertisements in low-circulation specialty publications and a
velomobile - the latter something that 99.9% of the population has no
clue to what it is.

Sure. I'm a specialist in creating upmarket premium brands. You need a
certain income level before I pay any attention to you. -- AJ

On Jun 7, 5:10*am, James wrote:
Tºm Shermªn °_° wrote:

Metal bull-bars should be outlawed, due to the significantly greater
danger they pose to cyclists and pedestrians.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck_Wonderland

"This section needs to be expanded using prose. See the guideline for
more information." --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck_Wonderland

"Prose" apparently needs explanation to the average Wikipedia
contributor, because it is a link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prose

Even after a structure for the article is suggested, and potential
contributors are told it must be written in "prose", the Wikipedia
hierarchy still finds it necessary to give a "guideline" which links
to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...bums#Reception

That's a lot of effort for a very uncertain result. I love the way the
worst jerks everywhere on the net love Wikipedia.

On Jun 7, 4:27*am, Tºm Shermªn °_° ""twshermanREMOVE\"@THI
$southslope.net" wrote:

Metal bull-bars should be outlawed, due to the significantly greater
danger they pose to cyclists and pedestrians.

In Liddell Tommi's normative wonderland, bull bars will be made of
papier mache stuck together with marshmallow.

Andre Jute

Andre Jute wrote:
What you fail to grasp, Springer, is that I used to be in the
business of putting dreams in the heads of big spenders like you
(your fridge, your garage and your wardrobe is full of overpriced
crap I made you want)

I'm afraid you failed as misarably there as here.

turn a blind eye to their faults, as you clearly do, every time,
to every German product.

I just happen to know those better than others, and I typically talk
about what I know.

--
MfG/Best regards
helmut springer panta rhei

Andre Jute wrote:
In Germany cyclists may be all supermen with X-ray eyes but here
in Ireland (and elsewhere I daresay) we rather prefer to trust
designers to be sensible, a trust which in the Tubus Cosmo case
was betrayed.

I assume it wasn't an option to look at the spec, like
http://www.tubus.com/images/stories/...15_35_50_4.jpg


What this is about isn't that the Tubus Cosmo doesn't fit, which we
all agree on,

For very suitable values of "we" 8)


--
MfG/Best regards
helmut springer panta rhei

On 6/6/2011 11:49 PM, James wrote:
Tºm Shermªn °_° wrote:
On 6/6/2011 11:10 PM, James wrote:
[...]
Here, your 4x4 isn't really a 4x4 until it's got a bullbar, winch,
a set
of spotties, snorkel, oversize mud tyres, 2+ inch suspension lift,
high
lift jack, oversize noisy exhaust, side steps and bars, air compressor
and aerials for talking to the RFDS [1].

None of which makes up for the owners not knowing how to drive
properly off-road.

Why would they want to? That would make the vehicle dirty and likely
reduce the resale value.[...]

Yeah, I guess these people do not know what real work is either.


Define "real" work.

In the case of a truck, actually needing to haul people and equipment
farther than the paved road goes.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/mphg/mphg.htm#Scene%203

quote
DENNIS: You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship.
A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes--
WOMAN: Oh there you go, bringing class into it again.
/quote

Would you want a real work truck, or a pimpmobile for collecting filth?

--
Tºm Shermªn - 42.435731,-83.985007
I am a vehicular cyclist.

On 6/7/2011 12:04 AM, Andre Jute wrote:
On Jun 7, 4:27�am, T�m Sherm�n �_�""twshermanREMOVE\"@THI
$southslope.net" wrote:

Metal bull-bars should be outlawed, due to the significantly greater
danger they pose to cyclists and pedestrians.

In Liddell Tommi's normative wonderland, bull bars will be made of
papier mache stuck together with marshmallow.

Andre Jute

Does Mr. Jute consider the sheet metal on a SUV more valuable than human
life?

--
Tºm Shermªn - 42.435731,-83.985007
I am a vehicular cyclist.

On 6/6/2011 11:50 PM, Andre Jute wrote:
[...]
Now you're getting the hang of it, Liddell Tommi. Except that those
guys will run over your velomobile on principle. They'll probably
think you're gay, and therefore reverse over you as well. -- AJ

Why would they mistake me for The André Jute, since I have a velomobile
and not a hermaphroditic frame upright?

--
Tºm Shermªn - 42.435731,-83.985007
I am a vehicular cyclist.

On 6/6/2011 11:58 PM, Andre Jute wrote:
On Jun 7, 2:18�am, T�m Sherm�n �_�""twshermanREMOVE\"@THI
$southslope.net" wrote:
On 6/6/2011 7:29 PM, Andre Jute wrote:

[...] What you fail to grasp,
Springer, is that I used to be in the business of putting dreams in
the heads of big spenders like you (your fridge, your garage and your
wardrobe is full of overpriced crap I made you want)[...]

Refrigerator: Primarily unadvertised brands (mostly house brands).

Wardrobe: Designer labels - a couple of items that were picked up from
the give-away table (free) and thrift stores (because they were dirt cheap).

Garage/Driveway: Banged up and unwashed Honda Civic urban rat runner,
and scratched, dented, and unwashed Nissan Frontier work truck. �Some
'bents from a specialty builder who only had a couple of small
advertisements in low-circulation specialty publications and a
velomobile - the latter something that 99.9% of the population has no
clue to what it is.

Sure. I'm a specialist in creating upmarket premium brands. You need a
certain income level before I pay any attention to you. -- AJ

Upmarket premium brands: Overpriced goods purchased mainly to show off
income level.

--
Tºm Shermªn - 42.435731,-83.985007
I am a vehicular cyclist.