I was presented with a new twist on the same theme yesterday. I live in a condo where we have a group of separate garages, little "car condos" if you will. I have it mainly to keep my bikes to work on and to store the car in really bad weather during the winter. I was puttering around working on my son's bike when a neighbor was walking past and asked me how the "bike shop" was doing. I didn't get it at first, and responded that they were all doing really well with the good weather, I was looking forward to getting this project finished so I could clear out some of the old stuff I didn't need. He looked a little surprised and asked if I wasn't selling the bikes I worked on. I guess that's a reasonable question to somebody who sees this:
when they walked by. "Oh, God NO!" I said, "these are all ours."
"You really use all these?" he said.
I explained that there were three, my Trek roadie, Byron the townie and the Hunq for touring/off road riding that I use on a regular basis. I pointed out my son's campus bike and the mixte was being built as a faster version for him.
He said he was really impressed, he had assumed I was building them for sale since I had so many.
There we go again, like the friends who laughed uproariously when I mentioned having 5 bikes,
he had no concept of actually using a bike, it had to be a recreation, or a business.
His world was rocked a little, but he did ask advice to get his own Bianchi hybrid serviced in the area.
I was quick to steer him to a local LBS before he asked me to work on it.
I'm going to be off for a couple of days to travel to the Riv Rally East, in Cumberland, Md where a group of us with a similar brand of insanity will spend the weekend riding the Gap and CO trails through mountains.
I plan to have some posts and photos when I get back.
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