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From: Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Ebay prices
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2025 12:04:01 -0400
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On 4/8/2025 6:38 PM, Shadow wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 18:19:44 -0400, Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 4/8/2025 5:42 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>> On 4/8/2025 4:38 PM, Zen Cycle wrote:
>>>> On 4/8/2025 5:29 PM, Shadow wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 13:06:16 -0400, Frank Krygowski
>>>>> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 4/7/2025 2:01 PM, cyclintom wrote:
>>>>>>> On Sun Apr 6 19:12:56 2025 Frank Krygowski  wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 4/6/2025 6:04 PM, cyclintom wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Yesterday, I was fixing flats on three different bikes. I went up
>>>>>>>>> to Robinson's and picked up some new tubes because the flats are
>>>>>>>>> all pin holes and I've never successfully repaired those. I fix
>>>>>>>>> one hole and another appears 3 inchs away. Nothing in the tire.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Wow. So many problems!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So now Frank is telling us that he never gets flats.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not at all, Tom! I've described here getting something like three flats
>>>>>> within 15 miles. I've described other flats as well. Flats are a normal
>>>>>> part of bicycling.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But I do know how to successfully fix flats. Your "I've never
>>>>>> successfully repaired those. I fix one hole and another appears 3 inchs
>>>>>> away." is very, very unusual.
>>>>>
>>>>>      If there's a piece of fine wire in the tire repairing the
>>>>> inner tube will not prevent a flat a few minutes later.
>>>>>      Fine wire is very common in our asphalt, which is made of
>>>>> recycled truck/car tires (plus other stuff). It's the tires that have
>>>>> those nasty stainless steel wires.
>>>>>      I always run my finger round the inside of the tire before
>>>>> replacing the repaired inner tube. I usually simultaneously find the
>>>>> culprit and puncture my finger..
>>>>
>>>> Tom has complained about wire flats before. He blamed it on Biden.
>>>>
>>>>>      []'s
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Biden had his own sins but I'd bet we wasn't driving around on auto
>>> tires worn through until the steel wires shred.  Not in Oakland at any rate
>>>
>>
>> He blamed bidens economic policies for creating an economic depression
>> in california such that "nobody" could afford new tires and "everyone"
>> was driving around on tires so worn that the belts were fraying and
>> littering the roadways with bits of steel wire.
>>
>> https://groups.google.com/g/rec.bicycles.tech/c/eAEXNTV6WKg
>>
>> I stand corrected, first he blamed obama:
>>
>> "During Obama and his Great Recession that the Stupid 4+1 don't believe
>> was there hero Obama's fault, pe3ople without work would run their tires
>> until the steel casing broke through and would bleed steel particles all
>> over the road causing bicycles endless problems with flat tires almost
>> constantly. This did NOT stop until Trump entered office and then
>> disappeared almost overnight."
>>
>> Note how the mere presence of trump in the whitehouse magically made all
>> those wire shreds disappear "overnight".
>>
>> _THEN_ he blamed Biden
>>
>> "Biden trumped Obama by doing the same thing in three years."
> 
> 	On the upside, he does have a very vivid imagination. His
> dreams now must be like Paradise, with Trump fixing all the things
> that make being poor unbearable.
> 	A world with no flats, no hunger, no inadequate welfare
> checks, plenty of cheap or even free food, housing and medical care
> etc... You have to envy that.
> 	[]'s

  Not to forget everyone got new tires for their cars!

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