June 30, 2006

I took my bike to the bike shop for it's tri-annual overhaul. The chain-ring I always use needed replacing, as did the free-wheel and the little guidewheels thingmes for the derailer, and of course you always replace the chain when you are replacing the components of your drive train.

So yeah, it was kind of expensive.

When I went to pick up the bike, the guy at the cash asked me how long I'd had it, and I said; "Well I got it like 6 years ago, but it was second-hand then."

The bike in question is an old Joe Breeze so it's kind of a history piece and political statement (Joe breeze was one of urban/ transportation biking's early advocates) all rolled into one. But you know what, it's probably close to twenty years old and still runs like charm.

Anyways dude at the cash is like; "You pay so much for repairs why not just ride the bike into the ground and get a new one..?"

And then I almost replied, "That's a great idea..You know what, let's just do that with everything we're tired of looking after or taking care of okay? Oh no wait, we do do that with everything."

My ridonculous repair bills don't even keep places like a Westmount bike repair shop in business anyways. It's all those golden handshake retired investment advisors with their fucking Race shorts and shaved legs.

Anyways. This post was supposed to be about how I picked my laptop up off the desk where it's been sitting for three days and found a peice of chewed gum underneath it, stuck to the chassis. So now I have a dodgy scratched up Dell Laptop with a gum-blob on it's ass. I am going to look so Profesh at Blogher.

If I had one tenth the sympathy for this computer that I have for my bike...

It wouldn't be a Dell. Hyuk.

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