Dull Men's Club
An unofficial chapter of the popular Dull Men's Club.
1. Relevant commentary on your own dull life. Posts should be about your own dull, lived experience. This is our most important rule. Direct questions, random thoughts, comment baiting, advice seeking, many uses of "discuss" rarely comply with this rule.
2. Original, Fresh, Meaningful Content.
3. Avoid repetitive topics.
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Use a search engine, a tradesperson, Reddit, friends, a specialist Facebook group, apps, Wikipedia, an AI chat, a reverse image search etc. to answer simple questions, identify objects or get advice. We accept very few questions, and they must be over topics much more difficult than what is easily discoverable with a search. Also see rule 1, “comment baiting”.
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8. All polls must have an "Africa, by Toto" option. Why? Because we hear the drums echoing tonight.
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My SuperGoose happens to be a chrome plated version, but I've also seen a 1979 nickel plated version as well.
I won't lie though, when I say 81 SG, that's damn near only the frame. I lost/broke/swapped lots of parts on it over the years.
The only true original parts are the frame, the lower steering tube bottom bearing cup, and the seatpost clamp (minus the original clamp bolt).
There's a lot of sentimental history to my bike, 95% of the parts came from either dump sites, trading, dumb luck on awesome deals, or just straight up tearing down half a dozen busted rims to reassemble two perfectly good rims.
Most of my bike isn't stock, it's totally custom. And the frame, original forks and crank only initially cost me $10. I bought it at age 15 as a carcass of a legendary bike, for only $10!
Even as broke down as it is now, I still consider it my best investment ever!
Oh yeah? Well I made peanuts in a bike shop but the Felt AR was my free demo bike. It just happened to be the one I was on. I swapped out my rides a good bit. The deep carbon rims were at one point some very high end wheels that I was given when I left my first bike shop job. I've rebuilt them with new spokes several times and new hubs once. I still have some odds and ends parts on there from race team spares when I was supporting an internationally competitive pro race team. The rest are mostly my personal spares. When I did eBay I was given a lot of stuff like spares and nice pedals and accessories because I listed bikes without any extras, exactly like they were new. I told people they could keep the stuff but most just gave it away. That is where my pedals are from. I mostly worked with really high end stuff for consignments that are too expensive to easily sell elsewhere, and where a couple hundred bucks in extras is nothing to the person. It is funny the duality of working with people like that but then being a poor miser IRL. I couldn't have gotten the bikes I have ridden except through working as a bike shop monkey. The nice stuff often lasts so much longer especially here where I am around a lot of salty air and water.