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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 413361" data-attributes="member: 8">My old bike, which was bought second-hand to begin with. As a matter of fact, I&#039;ve never owned a new bike, it was always my brother&#039;s bike or one that previously belonged to an older cousin. Isn&#039;t that a very Dickensian background story?My old bike, hundreds of flat tyres repaired by other people (because I can&#039;t do it), and that&#039;s just the tyres. Currently I&#039;m thinking about replacing the worn out snelbinders (couldn&#039;t find an English word for it).My old bike&#039;s predecessor was stolen once and I thought that would be the beginning of a new and glamorous chapter: the new bike.But no, of all the cases the police had to solve, they retrieved the old crappy bike. I thanked them with tears in my eyes.But anyway, that&#039;s all in the past now, and I like the old bike of today. It&#039;s sort of like having a relationship with a horse, it just gets better and better.It wasn&#039;t always great in the very beginning, I remember it came with a very uncomfortable saddle but after a lot of complaining (think 200 episodes daytime soap style) I got a new saddle. And combined with the various tyres there are actually several parts of my old bike that are genuinely new. Kinda like a Frankenstein project.I see these millennial kids on their €1000,- E-bikes, that is to say I usually see the back of them because they&#039;re much faster than me.But I don&#039;t mind putting some knee grease into it, old-fashioned exercise is good for the health and spirit (I hope that doesn&#039;t sound too hitlerjugend-ish).I won&#039;t be riding my bike tomorrow, unless something unexpecting happens. I wonder what that could be. Or who, and why.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 413361, member: 8"] My old bike, which was bought second-hand to begin with. As a matter of fact, I've never owned a new bike, it was always my brother's bike or one that previously belonged to an older cousin. Isn't that a very Dickensian background story? My old bike, hundreds of flat tyres repaired by other people (because I can't do it), and that's just the tyres. Currently I'm thinking about replacing the worn out snelbinders (couldn't find an English word for it). My old bike's predecessor was stolen once and I thought that would be the beginning of a new and glamorous chapter: the new bike. But no, of all the cases the police had to solve, they retrieved the old crappy bike. I thanked them with tears in my eyes. But anyway, that's all in the past now, and I like the old bike of today. It's sort of like having a relationship with a horse, it just gets better and better. It wasn't always great in the very beginning, I remember it came with a very uncomfortable saddle but after a lot of complaining (think 200 episodes daytime soap style) I got a new saddle. And combined with the various tyres there are actually several parts of my old bike that are genuinely new. Kinda like a Frankenstein project. I see these millennial kids on their €1000,- E-bikes, that is to say I usually see the back of them because they're much faster than me. But I don't mind putting some knee grease into it, old-fashioned exercise is good for the health and spirit (I hope that doesn't sound too hitlerjugend-ish). I won't be riding my bike tomorrow, unless something unexpecting happens. I wonder what that could be. Or who, and why. [/QUOTE]

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