chit chat thread
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How well do those bikes hold their value? (If you were to sell it in 3/4 years)
What's the typical usable lifespan on one?? (breaking/fixing or being made "obsolete" by something more baller)
Or are they just infinitely upgradable?
Just curious as this stuff is friggin' neat.
Couple coworkers are crazy into roadbikes. One brought theirs to work one day and I was absolutely blown away by how light it was and how much carbon was on the thing!
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My (somewhat limited?) experience shopping for a used bike shows that trying to find a "good" bike for less than a grand is pretty difficult. I'm sure the uber-high-end stuff probably depreciates faster though.
Everything is upgradable. Standards change every 8-10ish years, so trying to upgrade a 5 year old bike to whatever is trendy today is probably possible, but not really economical vs buying a new bike. Upgrading a 10 year old bike is kind of a joke. High-end stuff is high-maintenance. Lower-end stuff tends to be lower maintenance. Basically, plan on spending a shit-ton of money and having bike that no one even wants five or ten years from now.
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Still kind of pricey, but at least it has an engine...?
Not sure how I feel about this...
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I think it would be way too heavy and cumbersome to deal with actual mountain bike trails, not to mention really bad etiquette. I like the idea of having a super-light "moped" with full-size wheels and a riding position that's more motorcycle than scooter, but I doubt this thing is actually street legal, so.... I guess that makes it pretty much useless...? dunno.
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I've seen those before in Marquette, they are funny but I don't know what you would do with it. It is not allowed on the trails, it isn't road legal, and it isn't a dirt bike. You are restricted to dirt bike trails so getting a dirt bike would only make sense.
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Finally got the software for the router on Thursday.
First project finished. A Hoffmeister kink inspired paper towel holder.
I'm still on the learning curve with the machine, but it seems to work alright. Not as precise as I would like for routing, but better than the poorly-setup Shopbot machine they had at FVTC.
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That's cooler than I could ever imagine a paper towel holder looking.
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I think it would be way too heavy and cumbersome to deal with actual mountain bike trails, not to mention really bad etiquette. I like the idea of having a super-light "moped" with full-size wheels and a riding position that's more motorcycle than scooter, but I doubt this thing is actually street legal, so.... I guess that makes it pretty much useless...? dunno.
Pedal it around as a bike. Win.
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Something tells me that I shouldn't check the compression on my engine. It's probably from Jeff and Snap....
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Something tells me that I shouldn't check the compression on my engine. It's probably from Jeff and Snap....
I wouldn't, I'll never do another check again. I will just listen to the Subaru engine that someone swapped in. Plus who needs mosquitos anyway??
1976 530i e12
1990 325ix e30
1992 325i e36
1995 740il e38
2001 330xi e46
^More to come
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