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Date: 14 May 2006 12:52:51
From: NYC XYZ
Subject: Hmm, Maybe I Should Be an HP Velotechnik Dealer?
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I feel like an ambassador! Or a traveling circus...so many have wanted
to take a picture of my bike...I've now taken to just referring them to
the google keywords of "smgte" and "recumbent"...too bad I'm not in
business!
Just as well: most folks won't be able to afford it -- they'd think a
$600 ActionBent is crazy, never mind ~$3.5K for a souped-up HP Velo
SMGTe!
Wish I'd thought of getting air-sprung suspension for the front, too,
like with a White Bros. fork or something...seems silly having a
basically regular steel spring up there when I've got a nice air shock
in the rear. My front brakes keep getting misaligned or something on
account of all the potholes I go over...no problem at all with the rear
disc!
I wonder what it takes to be an HP Velo dealer...NYC certainly needs
one! It's amazing the anti-'bent bias from the LBSes...it's mild, but
definitely there: one guy (the snarky racer guy I'd mentioned in the
old thread about bad bike shop manners) said to me yesterday, "Dude!
What happened, the last time I saw you, you were insisting on a Trek,
and now you've got into this...this whole sub-culture...!" Another
bike shop was only mildly interested in helping me with mechanical
issues on it.
Interestingly, I see a 'bent-rider almost every time I go out for a
ride! Unfortunately, I don't really see them on the streets, but in
parks. I can't wait for the day when I can be just another bicyclist
on my 'bent! Though I'd miss that "respect" and wide berth motorists
give as they slow down to gawk. I still haven't had any honk at me for
being slow starting up on a hill or for taking up the whole lane!
Also can't wait for them hydrogen fuel cell cars so I am no longer
about eye-level with the exhaust...blech!
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Date: 22 May 2006 07:22:06
From: NYC XYZ
Subject: Re: Are you selling something or want to buy something?
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No, genius, my name is Osama bin Laden and I'm posting out of your ass!
ST wrote:
> On 5/14/06 7:54 PM, in article
> 1147661651.871565.191720@j73g2000cwa.googlegroups.com, "NYC XYZ"
> <jack_foreigner@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Gooserider wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> You aren't selling anything. The .ketplace NG is for the selling of
> >> items. That's the big deal.
> >
> >
> > I have to sell something here to post here?
> >
> > I have a question about a part of the bicycle ket.
> >
> > It's on-topic enough for me. I'm not forcing you to read. Really
> > don't know what's the big deal.
> >
>
> He looks to be in Tampa Bay on Road Runner cable
>
> NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.86.213.228
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Date: 18 May 2006 21:05:55
From: NYC XYZ
Subject: Re: Are you selling something or want to buy something?
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Hahaha, I know you!
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-chimps18may18,1,7248345.story?coll=la-headlines-world
Gooserider wrote:
>
>
> Your mom said hi. I just sent her home after shaving her back.
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Date: 16 May 2006 20:03:32
From:
Subject: Re: Are you selling something or want to buy something?
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You're so fucking lame, I hear yo mama calling you to go home!
Gooserider wrote:
>
> Plonk.
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Date: 17 May 2006 23:20:27
From: Gooserider
Subject: Re: Are you selling something or want to buy something?
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<latina_liebhaber@yahoo.com > wrote in message
news:1147835012.202345.45270@j55g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
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> You're so fucking lame, I hear yo mama calling you to go home!
Your mom said hi. I just sent her home after shaving her back.
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Date: 15 May 2006 18:17:42
From: NYC XYZ
Subject: Re: Are you selling something or want to buy something?
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ADIH.
Sorni wrote:
>
>
> POTD.
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Date: 15 May 2006 17:56:40
From: NYC XYZ
Subject: Re: Are you selling something or want to buy something?
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Um, that's "er" with one "r," mister webster.
Why don't you go eat some toilet tissue.
Gooserider wrote:
>
>
> Err, that would be Magna Carta, and it's obvious you have issues.
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Date: 16 May 2006 09:12:39
From: Gooserider
Subject: Re: Are you selling something or want to buy something?
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"NYC XYZ" <jack_foreigner@yahoo.com > wrote in message
news:1147741000.293202.229260@j55g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>
> Um, that's "er" with one "r," mister webster.
>
> Why don't you go eat some toilet tissue.
>
Plonk.
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Date: 15 May 2006 17:40:45
From: NYC XYZ
Subject: Re: Are you selling something or want to buy something?
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YOU'RE violating the magna carter ya dumb shit!
Gooserider wrote:
>
> You are violating the charter, and you have been told thusly. You are being
> an obnoxious twit.
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Date: 16 May 2006 00:59:29
From: Sorni
Subject: Re: Are you selling something or want to buy something?
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NYC XYZ wrote:
> YOU'RE violating the magna carter ya dumb shit!
POTD.
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Date: 16 May 2006 00:54:21
From: Gooserider
Subject: Re: Are you selling something or want to buy something?
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"NYC XYZ" <jack_foreigner@yahoo.com > wrote in message
news:1147740045.167798.88100@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com...
>
> YOU'RE violating the magna carter ya dumb shit!
Err, that would be Magna Carta, and it's obvious you have issues.
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Date: 15 May 2006 17:39:51
From: NYC XYZ
Subject: Re: Are you selling something or want to buy something?
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Haw haw haw haw haw!!
Hey, I'm an illegal alien with a wmd from al quaeda, too, cow-fart!!!
NedTexTri wrote:
> Keep it up buddy... don't forget the new statute enacted to keep twits like
> you off of newsgroups. I'll do my part to aid in your prosecution.
>
> Your days are numbered.
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Date: 15 May 2006 15:06:05
From: NYC XYZ
Subject: Re: Hmm, Maybe I Should Be an HP Velotechnik Dealer?
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I just wonder how shock is transmitted evenly through both sides when
only one side has actually got the spring suspension while the other's
got an hydraulic dampening cartridge (??).
Peter Clinch wrote:
>
>
> Fair enough, I'm just looking at the web site pic and that may well be
> the old Ballistic fork on mine.
>
> However, both sides will affect the behaviour of the fork because any
> shock they take through the wheel should be transmitted through both sides.
>
> Pete.
> --
> Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
> Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
> Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
> net p.j.clinch@dundee.ac.uk http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/
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Date: 15 May 2006 14:59:58
From: NYC XYZ
Subject: Re: Are you selling something or want to buy something?
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Hmm....
Steven M. O'Neill wrote:
> NYC XYZ <jack_foreigner@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >I'm not being obstinate at all -- I'm only interpreting the words
> >"bicycle" and "ketplace" more broadly than you are. I didn't think
> >the newsgroup was only an online classifieds section, and frankly I'm
> >still not convinced that it actually is.
>
> Here's the (alleged) charter:
>
> ======================Begin Quoted Message==============================
> Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.ketplace
> Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU!news
> From: les@sail.stanford.edu (Les Earnest)
> Subject: Welcome to rec.bicycles.ketplace
> Message-ID: <1992Aug26.051939.15142@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
> Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU
> Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 05:19:39 GMT
> Lines: 15
>
> I'm pleased to see that this group is alive and well.
> Here, in case you don't remember, is the charter.
>
> rec.bicycles.ketplace: Bicycles, components, ancillary equipment and
> services wanted or for sale, reviews of such things, places to buy
> them, and evaluations of these sources. Not for discussion of general
> engineering, maintenance, or repair -- see rec.bicycles.tech.
>
> Note that postings of articles on things for sale or wanted should
> generally not be cross-posted to other rec.bicycles.* groups.
>
> --
> Les Earnest Phone: 415 941-3984
> Internet: Les@cs.Stanford.edu USMail: 12769 Dianne Drive
> UUCP: . . . decwrl!cs.Stanford.edu!Les Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
> ========================End Quoted Message==============================
> --
> Steven O'Neill steveo@panix.com
> Brooklyn, NY
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Date: 15 May 2006 14:58:44
From: NYC XYZ
Subject: Re: Are you selling something or want to buy something?
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And you have all the IQ of a styrofoam helmet.
G.T. wrote:
>
>
> It is off-topic and beyond the pale. You're an obnoxious twit.
>
> Greg
>
> --
> "All my time I spent in heaven
> Revelries of dance and wine
> Waking to the sound of laughter
> Up I'd rise and kiss the sky" - The Mekons
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Date: 15 May 2006 22:35:14
From: NedTexTri
Subject: Re: Are you selling something or want to buy something?
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Keep it up buddy... don't forget the new statute enacted to keep twits like
you off of newsgroups. I'll do my part to aid in your prosecution.
Your days are numbered.
"NYC XYZ" <jack_foreigner@yahoo.com > wrote in message
news:1147730323.984942.296500@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com...
>
> And you have all the IQ of a styrofoam helmet.
>
>
>
> G.T. wrote:
>>
>>
>> It is off-topic and beyond the pale. You're an obnoxious twit.
>>
>> Greg
>>
>> --
>> "All my time I spent in heaven
>> Revelries of dance and wine
>> Waking to the sound of laughter
>> Up I'd rise and kiss the sky" - The Mekons
>
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Date: 15 May 2006 07:42:56
From: NYC XYZ
Subject: Re: Hmm, Maybe I Should Be an HP Velotechnik Dealer?
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Um, it says so in the manual, don't it? Also, the dampening can only
be controlled on the right side, while the "resistance" (I forget the
technical term) can only be adjusted on the left side.
I've got the upgraded fork, BTW, the one with the air dampening on the
right and spring coil "resistance," as I say, on the left.
Peter Clinch wrote:
>
>
> I'm not sure where you got that idea from. AFAICT each side of the fork
> has identical spring/elastomer setup, spring at the top (so it can be
> adjusted at the fork crown end) and elastomer underneath. The air
> damping is within the elastomer as closed cells in the material.
>
> Pete.
> --
> Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
> Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
> Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
> net p.j.clinch@dundee.ac.uk http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/
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Date: 15 May 2006 15:48:15
From: Peter Clinch
Subject: Re: Hmm, Maybe I Should Be an HP Velotechnik Dealer?
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NYC XYZ wrote:
> Um, it says so in the manual, don't it?
Fair enough, I'm just looking at the web site pic and that may well be
the old Ballistic fork on mine.
However, both sides will affect the behaviour of the fork because any
shock they take through the wheel should be transmitted through both sides.
Pete.
--
Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
net p.j.clinch@dundee.ac.uk http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/
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Date: 15 May 2006 07:18:11
From: NYC XYZ
Subject: Re: Hmm, Maybe I Should Be an HP Velotechnik Dealer?
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Peter Clinch wrote:
>
>
> You effectively have, thanks to the air in the elastomer within the Meks
> fork. See
> http://www.hpvelotechnik.com/produkte/federgabeln/federsystem_e.html
What I don't understand is how one side has the spring while the other
side (the right one, if you're sitting in [that's right, "in"] the
bike) has the air dampening. So that means that only the left side is
absorbing any road shock!
> I would suggest your front wheel needs tightening in the dropouts in
> this case, rather than you need a different set of forks With a
> reasonably rigid link between wheel and forks it shouldn't go out of
> alignment just because you hit a bump.
I didn't think so -- thanks for the suggestion, it never occured to me
that maybe my quick-release axle (or whatever that thinggy is called)
is at fault!
> I guess a contract with HP Velotechnik and a viable business plan. I
> don't know about the contract, but I think the viable business plan will
> come first and would be tricky as the ket is very small and you'll
> need to provide specialist backup. At the moment you have someone else
> shorten chains for you, so you'll need to hire a full time mechanic
> which makes your wage bill double what most small bike shops have to pay
> out. Also your up-front cost on demonstrator bikes will be high, even
> at cost.
Hehe...my up-front demonstrator bike would be my own -- but you're
right about my mechanical ineptitude, as well as lack of business
acumen! Still, I was only wondering about "kick-backs" to the company
and so forth....
> Pete.
> --
> Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
> Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
> Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
> net p.j.clinch@dundee.ac.uk http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/
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Date: 15 May 2006 15:23:40
From: Peter Clinch
Subject: Re: Hmm, Maybe I Should Be an HP Velotechnik Dealer?
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NYC XYZ wrote:
> What I don't understand is how one side has the spring while the other
> side (the right one, if you're sitting in [that's right, "in"] the
> bike) has the air dampening. So that means that only the left side is
> absorbing any road shock!
I'm not sure where you got that idea from. AFAICT each side of the fork
has identical spring/elastomer setup, spring at the top (so it can be
adjusted at the fork crown end) and elastomer underneath. The air
damping is within the elastomer as closed cells in the material.
Pete.
--
Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
net p.j.clinch@dundee.ac.uk http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/
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Date: 15 May 2006 07:11:02
From: NYC XYZ
Subject: Re: Are you selling something or want to buy something?
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Gooserider wrote:
>
>
> Yes, you should either be selling something or looking to buy something to
> initiate a thread in a ketplace newsgroup. Why did you crosspost to
> it---because it mentioned bicycle in the ng name? You're being obstinate.
> You know you're wrong.
I'm not being obstinate at all -- I'm only interpreting the words
"bicycle" and "ketplace" more broadly than you are. I didn't think
the newsgroup was only an online classifieds section, and frankly I'm
still not convinced that it actually is.
It may be the common practice that 99.99% of all posts are of the
"classifieds" variety but I don't see how that makes the other .01%
like mine totally off-topic or beyond the pale.
Sorry, but all I hear is that I shouldn't be posting here about my
questions concerning 1) the bike business, specifically how a
dealership works, and 2) whether White Bros. air shocks for the fork
would have been more fitting for a bike outfitted with a DT Swiss rear
air shock.
Sounds like your complaints are more off-topic than anything I've asked
about! In any case, I agree to disagree and you may have the last word
in this thread on that matter.
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Date: 15 May 2006 21:46:16
From: Gooserider
Subject: Re: Are you selling something or want to buy something?
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"NYC XYZ" <jack_foreigner@yahoo.com > wrote in message
news:1147702262.266786.147080@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com...
>
> Gooserider wrote:
>>
>>
>> Yes, you should either be selling something or looking to buy something
>> to
>> initiate a thread in a ketplace newsgroup. Why did you crosspost to
>> it---because it mentioned bicycle in the ng name? You're being obstinate.
>> You know you're wrong.
>
>
> I'm not being obstinate at all -- I'm only interpreting the words
> "bicycle" and "ketplace" more broadly than you are. I didn't think
> the newsgroup was only an online classifieds section, and frankly I'm
> still not convinced that it actually is.
>
You are violating the charter, and you have been told thusly. You are being
an obnoxious twit.
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Date: 15 May 2006 11:02:43
From: G.T.
Subject: Re: Are you selling something or want to buy something?
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NYC XYZ wrote:
> Gooserider wrote:
>
>>
>>Yes, you should either be selling something or looking to buy something to
>>initiate a thread in a ketplace newsgroup. Why did you crosspost to
>>it---because it mentioned bicycle in the ng name? You're being obstinate.
>>You know you're wrong.
>
>
>
> I'm not being obstinate at all -- I'm only interpreting the words
> "bicycle" and "ketplace" more broadly than you are. I didn't think
> the newsgroup was only an online classifieds section, and frankly I'm
> still not convinced that it actually is.
>
> It may be the common practice that 99.99% of all posts are of the
> "classifieds" variety but I don't see how that makes the other .01%
> like mine totally off-topic or beyond the pale.
>
It is off-topic and beyond the pale. You're an obnoxious twit.
Greg
--
"All my time I spent in heaven
Revelries of dance and wine
Waking to the sound of laughter
Up I'd rise and kiss the sky" - The Mekons
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Date: 15 May 2006 15:06:04
From: Steven M. O'Neill
Subject: Re: Are you selling something or want to buy something?
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NYC XYZ <jack_foreigner@yahoo.com > wrote:
>I'm not being obstinate at all -- I'm only interpreting the words
>"bicycle" and "ketplace" more broadly than you are. I didn't think
>the newsgroup was only an online classifieds section, and frankly I'm
>still not convinced that it actually is.
Here's the (alleged) charter:
======================Begin Quoted Message==============================
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.ketplace
Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU!news
From: les@sail.stanford.edu (Les Earnest)
Subject: Welcome to rec.bicycles.ketplace
Message-ID: <1992Aug26.051939.15142@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU >
Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 05:19:39 GMT
Lines: 15
I'm pleased to see that this group is alive and well.
Here, in case you don't remember, is the charter.
rec.bicycles.ketplace: Bicycles, components, ancillary equipment and
services wanted or for sale, reviews of such things, places to buy
them, and evaluations of these sources. Not for discussion of general
engineering, maintenance, or repair -- see rec.bicycles.tech.
Note that postings of articles on things for sale or wanted should
generally not be cross-posted to other rec.bicycles.* groups.
--
Les Earnest Phone: 415 941-3984
Internet: Les@cs.Stanford.edu USMail: 12769 Dianne Drive
UUCP: . . . decwrl!cs.Stanford.edu!Les Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
========================End Quoted Message==============================
--
Steven O'Neill steveo@panix.com
Brooklyn, NY
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Date: 15 May 2006 08:54:46
From: Peter Clinch
Subject: Re: Hmm, Maybe I Should Be an HP Velotechnik Dealer?
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NYC XYZ wrote:
> Wish I'd thought of getting air-sprung suspension for the front, too,
You effectively have, thanks to the air in the elastomer within the Meks
fork. See
http://www.hpvelotechnik.com/produkte/federgabeln/federsystem_e.html
> My front brakes keep getting misaligned or something on
> account of all the potholes I go over...no problem at all with the rear
> disc!
I would suggest your front wheel needs tightening in the dropouts in
this case, rather than you need a different set of forks With a
reasonably rigid link between wheel and forks it shouldn't go out of
alignment just because you hit a bump.
> I wonder what it takes to be an HP Velo dealer...
I guess a contract with HP Velotechnik and a viable business plan. I
don't know about the contract, but I think the viable business plan will
come first and would be tricky as the ket is very small and you'll
need to provide specialist backup. At the moment you have someone else
shorten chains for you, so you'll need to hire a full time mechanic
which makes your wage bill double what most small bike shops have to pay
out. Also your up-front cost on demonstrator bikes will be high, even
at cost.
Pete.
--
Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
net p.j.clinch@dundee.ac.uk http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/
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Date: 14 May 2006 19:54:11
From: NYC XYZ
Subject: Re: Are you selling something or want to buy something?
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Gooserider wrote:
>
>
> You aren't selling anything. The .ketplace NG is for the selling of
> items. That's the big deal.
I have to sell something here to post here?
I have a question about a part of the bicycle ket.
It's on-topic enough for me. I'm not forcing you to read. Really
don't know what's the big deal.
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Date: 22 May 2006 04:03:51
From: ST
Subject: Re: Are you selling something or want to buy something?
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On 5/14/06 7:54 PM, in article
1147661651.871565.191720@j73g2000cwa.googlegroups.com, "NYC XYZ"
<jack_foreigner@yahoo.com > wrote:
>
> Gooserider wrote:
>>
>>
>> You aren't selling anything. The .ketplace NG is for the selling of
>> items. That's the big deal.
>
>
> I have to sell something here to post here?
>
> I have a question about a part of the bicycle ket.
>
> It's on-topic enough for me. I'm not forcing you to read. Really
> don't know what's the big deal.
>
He looks to be in Tampa Bay on Road Runner cable
NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.86.213.228
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Date: 15 May 2006 04:05:02
From: Gooserider
Subject: Re: Are you selling something or want to buy something?
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"NYC XYZ" <jack_foreigner@yahoo.com > wrote in message
news:1147661651.871565.191720@j73g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>
> Gooserider wrote:
>>
>>
>> You aren't selling anything. The .ketplace NG is for the selling of
>> items. That's the big deal.
>
>
> I have to sell something here to post here?
>
> I have a question about a part of the bicycle ket.
>
> It's on-topic enough for me. I'm not forcing you to read. Really
> don't know what's the big deal.
Yes, you should either be selling something or looking to buy something to
initiate a thread in a ketplace newsgroup. Why did you crosspost to
it---because it mentioned bicycle in the ng name? You're being obstinate.
You know you're wrong.
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Date: 14 May 2006 17:58:28
From: NYC XYZ
Subject: Re: Are you selling something or want to buy something?
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Gooserider wrote:
> You really shouldn't be crossposting to the ketplace group, NYC. Bad form.
Don't know what the big deal is. I'm only half-joking in wondering
what's involved in becoming a specialty bike dealer. In this age of
the internet, it's probably profitably possible. Since this is a
ketplace newsgroup, that question seems rather on-topic.
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Date: 15 May 2006 01:33:33
From: Gooserider
Subject: Re: Are you selling something or want to buy something?
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"NYC XYZ" <jack_foreigner@yahoo.com > wrote in message
news:1147654708.419728.307290@j73g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>
> Gooserider wrote:
>> You really shouldn't be crossposting to the ketplace group, NYC. Bad
>> form.
>
>
> Don't know what the big deal is. I'm only half-joking in wondering
> what's involved in becoming a specialty bike dealer. In this age of
> the internet, it's probably profitably possible. Since this is a
> ketplace newsgroup, that question seems rather on-topic.
You aren't selling anything. The .ketplace NG is for the selling of
items. That's the big deal.
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Date: 14 May 2006 17:53:10
From: NYC XYZ
Subject: Re: Hmm, Maybe I Should Be an HP Velotechnik Dealer?
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John Kimmel wrote:
>
> There's a hill in NYC?
>
> --
> John Kimmel
> gNuOySnPoAiMr@sNpOiSrPeAtMech.com
>
> GET YER STINKING PAWS OFF ME YOU DAMN DIRTY APE!
Oh hell yeah! So far, I've been able to negotiate them all, I'm happy
-- and rather proud, considering the 'bent is ~37-lbs. -- to say.
Basically, as you go uptown, and particular in the Bronx, you encounter
a lot of hills.
On the West Side bike path, just yards from right under the GWB, you
will find two very steep climbs. They're short, but steep, and one of
them curves sharply, so it's a bit of a challenge not only to spin your
pedals on a 'bent like the SMGTe but also keep balanced!
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Date: 14 May 2006 17:25:50
From: John Kimmel
Subject: Re: Hmm, Maybe I Should Be an HP Velotechnik Dealer?
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> being slow starting up on a hill or for taking up the whole lane!
>
> Also can't wait for them hydrogen fuel cell cars so I am no longer
> about eye-level with the exhaust...blech!
>
There's a hill in NYC?
--
John Kimmel
gNuOySnPoAiMr@sNpOiSrPeAtMech.com
GET YER STINKING PAWS OFF ME YOU DAMN DIRTY APE!
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Date: 14 May 2006 22:33:31
From: NedTexTri
Subject: Are you selling something or want to buy something?
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NO... and it's funny how you didn't appear until after the previous =
annoying bent rider poster was booted for posting links to his =
ridiculous bent blog... maybe it's time for you to get banned as well...
"NYC XYZ" <jack_foreigner@yahoo.com > wrote in message =
news:1147636371.861424.97870@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>I feel like an ambassador! Or a traveling circus...so many have wanted
> to take a picture of my bike...I've now taken to just referring them =
to
> the google keywords of "smgte" and "recumbent"...too bad I'm not in
> business!
>=20
> Just as well: most folks won't be able to afford it -- they'd think a
> $600 ActionBent is crazy, never mind ~$3.5K for a souped-up HP Velo
> SMGTe!
>=20
> Wish I'd thought of getting air-sprung suspension for the front, too,
> like with a White Bros. fork or something...seems silly having a
> basically regular steel spring up there when I've got a nice air shock
> in the rear. My front brakes keep getting misaligned or something on
> account of all the potholes I go over...no problem at all with the =
rear
> disc!
>=20
> I wonder what it takes to be an HP Velo dealer...NYC certainly needs
> one! It's amazing the anti-'bent bias from the LBSes...it's mild, but
> definitely there: one guy (the snarky racer guy I'd mentioned in the
> old thread about bad bike shop manners) said to me yesterday, "Dude!
> What happened, the last time I saw you, you were insisting on a Trek,
> and now you've got into this...this whole sub-culture...!" Another
> bike shop was only mildly interested in helping me with mechanical
> issues on it.
>=20
> Interestingly, I see a 'bent-rider almost every time I go out for a
> ride! Unfortunately, I don't really see them on the streets, but in
> parks. I can't wait for the day when I can be just another bicyclist
> on my 'bent! Though I'd miss that "respect" and wide berth motorists
> give as they slow down to gawk. I still haven't had any honk at me =
for
> being slow starting up on a hill or for taking up the whole lane!
>=20
> Also can't wait for them hydrogen fuel cell cars so I am no longer
> about eye-level with the exhaust...blech!
>
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<DIV ><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>NO... and it's funny how you =
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getting=20
air-sprung suspension for the front, too,<BR >> like with a White =
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brakes=20
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"respect" and=20
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still=20
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or for=20
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Date: 15 May 2006 00:03:20
From: Gooserider
Subject: Re: Are you selling something or want to buy something?
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You really shouldn't be crossposting to the ketplace group, NYC. Bad =
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Date: 14 May 2006 22:30:15
From: NedTexTri
Subject: Hmm, maybe you should be posting somewhere else
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"NYC XYZ" <jack_foreigner@yahoo.com > wrote in message
news:1147636371.861424.97870@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>I feel like an ambassador! Or a traveling circus...so many have wanted
> to take a picture of my bike...I've now taken to just referring them to
> the google keywords of "smgte" and "recumbent"...too bad I'm not in
> business!
>
> Just as well: most folks won't be able to afford it -- they'd think a
> $600 ActionBent is crazy, never mind ~$3.5K for a souped-up HP Velo
> SMGTe!
>
> Wish I'd thought of getting air-sprung suspension for the front, too,
> like with a White Bros. fork or something...seems silly having a
> basically regular steel spring up there when I've got a nice air shock
> in the rear. My front brakes keep getting misaligned or something on
> account of all the potholes I go over...no problem at all with the rear
> disc!
>
> I wonder what it takes to be an HP Velo dealer...NYC certainly needs
> one! It's amazing the anti-'bent bias from the LBSes...it's mild, but
> definitely there: one guy (the snarky racer guy I'd mentioned in the
> old thread about bad bike shop manners) said to me yesterday, "Dude!
> What happened, the last time I saw you, you were insisting on a Trek,
> and now you've got into this...this whole sub-culture...!" Another
> bike shop was only mildly interested in helping me with mechanical
> issues on it.
>
> Interestingly, I see a 'bent-rider almost every time I go out for a
> ride! Unfortunately, I don't really see them on the streets, but in
> parks. I can't wait for the day when I can be just another bicyclist
> on my 'bent! Though I'd miss that "respect" and wide berth motorists
> give as they slow down to gawk. I still haven't had any honk at me for
> being slow starting up on a hill or for taking up the whole lane!
>
> Also can't wait for them hydrogen fuel cell cars so I am no longer
> about eye-level with the exhaust...blech!
>
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