Yeti Ultimate with a caveat

[MR OX]

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*Inserts childish head joke*

 

[incorrigible]

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Uh-oh! What have I done?

Now I need to sell a few things to offset this purchase.

Anyone need a kidney? A liver?
It's OK, I've got a liver donor's card.

 

[Once A Hero]

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Wow. :shock:
I watched the auction end, that was some bid jump in the final seconds!
Congratulations

 

[incorrigible]

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Wow. :shock:
I watched the auction end, that was some bid jump in the final seconds!
Congratulations

Thanks. Never thought I'd ever see one for sale in a million years, but I think this COVID thing is bringing collectible bikes out of the sheds they were buried in, into the sunlight, and on up to eBay.

As rare as it is, I'm curious why a rebuilt Klein can still go for 50% more. I guess I'll never know until I buy a Klein, but to my knowledge Klein never made an e-stay.

 

[David Gibson]

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I'd bet that the seller never imagined he'd get that amount when he listed it.

 

[incorrigible]

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I'd bet that the seller never imagined he'd get that amount when he listed it.

I'd bet you're right. His description seemed to indicate that he didn't know much about it.

I predicted it'd go for around $3500 but I was hoping I'd get it for much less than I did.

So after spending that much, I need to make money somewhere. So... anyone out there wanna buy a spleen? I often thought I'd give my left gnard for one of these, so maybe I should put THAT up on eBay? I'm saving the right one for emergencies.

 

[Retro Spud]

Frank - at some point we’re all going to shuffle of the planet when it’s your time I can see the local news feed on XETV turning up at the yard sale ...... this guy had over 1,000 bicycles all different but wierdly all same f**ked up E design with funny small wheels

Would love to see a pic or two of the collection - last pic I think I saw was of a massive Mantis on a .....Mantis

 

[incorrigible]

Frank - at some point we’re all going to shuffle of the planet when it’s your time I can see the local news feed on XETV turning up at the yard sale ...... this guy had over 1,000 bicycles all different but wierdly all same f**ked up E design with funny small wheels

Would love to see a pic or two of the collection - last pic I think I saw was of a massive Mantis on a .....Mantis

Nick - I remember that one! It was a Valkyrie off of eBay, and I didn't want to take the chance that it would get damaged in transit, so I drove about 300 miles to pick it up in person, and then turned around and drove back in the same day. When I was taking pics of it, an honest-to-God real-life praying mantis flew into my house and I coaxed it to light on the bike, right next to the "Mantis" decal. What a photo op that was! Before then, I had seen maybe 4 or 5 praying mantisisisisis (mantii?) in my entire life.

btw, not nearly 1000; much less than half of that.....and growing.

"The collection" is all jammed into a few shipping containers with bags and bags of packing material (I save that stuff when I get a bike shipped to me because I may use it again) thrown on top. To find a particular bike is like navigating an obstacle course. To extricate a particular bike, I'd have to first pull about a dozen or so other bikes out to get to it and to clear a path. On a positive note, I'm taking advantage of this COVID lockdown to build some shelving out of lumber, plywood, Simpson-Ties, and many many screws (Thank goodness for cordless power tools). My goal is to be able to efficiently remove and replace any bike, frame, or part wihout having to first "dig" to get to it. Think 4' x 8' double-decker parking, each deck about 40" tall, with an approximately 12" to 16" tall third deck on top for plastic bins. I've already started to build a couple of double-decker "frame-only" shelving units out of 2' x 8' plywood that each hold about 24 frames along with many plastic bins on top.

I'll have to get pics up for sure, but I worry that I'll suddenly be answering a lot of emails, and I barely have time for myself. I'm fortunate to be able to telework, so that frees me up from my 2 to 4 hour daily commute :shock: :facepalm: :cry: which has been sucking the life out of me for the past 20 years or so, but I did what I had to do to live on some acreage out in the countryside (or in the mountains in this case). I recently clocked 60 years, so it's official; I've entered "Old Geezer-dom"! I hope to retire in a few years and that's when I'll finally have the time to do whatever I want, including share pics of the collection, hide under a pile of bikes, and write my manifesto. :twisted: Some of my friends started calling me "Jethro" (Beverly Hillbillies reference) since I move to the mountains and started living the life of a hermit. I joke with them that I'm living the "Ted Kaczynski/Jeffrey Dahmer lifestyle" wherein I hang out in bars, look men up and down and think to myself "Now THAT one will look good stuffed into my freezer at home". I whip out the measuring tape and the calculator when they're not looking...

What? Too soon? OK, I'm sorry; that was bad. erase erase

I'm single, so when I finally kick the bucket, no-one will know until the neighbors notice a funny smell and that buzzards have been circling my house for a few days. It won't be a pretty site. No loved ones around my death-bed and sharing my last moments; more likely the local hoodlums finding out I've passed, stepping over my corpse and trying to torch their way into my shipping containers. Boy will they be disappointed to see that they contain nothing but a bunch of old bikes, so the joke's on them!

 

[legrandefromage]

Frank - at some point we’re all going to shuffle of the planet when it’s your time I can see the local news feed on XETV turning up at the yard sale ...... this guy had over 1,000 bicycles all different but wierdly all same f**ked up E design with funny small wheels

Would love to see a pic or two of the collection - last pic I think I saw was of a massive Mantis on a .....Mantis

Nick - I remember that one! It was a Valkyrie off of eBay, and I didn't want to take the chance that it would get damaged in transit, so I drove about 300 miles to pick it up in person, and then turned around and drove back in the same day. When I was taking pics of it, an honest-to-God real-life praying mantis flew into my house and I coaxed it to light on the bike, right next to the "Mantis" decal. What a photo op that was! Before then, I had seen maybe 4 or 5 praying mantisisisisis (mantii?) in my entire life.

btw, not nearly 1000; much less than half of that.....and growing.

"The collection" is all jammed into a few shipping containers with bags and bags of packing material (I save that stuff when I get a bike shipped to me because I may use it again) thrown on top. To find a particular bike is like navigating an obstacle course. To extricate a particular bike, I'd have to first pull about a dozen or so other bikes out to get to it and to clear a path. On a positive note, I'm taking advantage of this COVID lockdown to build some shelving out of lumber, plywood, Simpson-Ties, and many many screws (Thank goodness for cordless power tools). My goal is to be able to efficiently remove and replace any bike, frame, or part wihout having to first "dig" to get to it. Think 4' x 8' double-decker parking, each deck about 40" tall, with an approximately 12" to 16" tall third deck on top for plastic bins. I've already started to build a couple of double-decker "frame-only" shelving units out of 2' x 8' plywood that each hold about 24 frames along with many plastic bins on top.

I'll have to get pics up for sure, but I worry that I'll suddenly be answering a lot of emails, and I barely have time for myself. I'm fortunate to be able to telework, so that frees me up from my 2 to 4 hour daily commute :shock: :facepalm: :cry: which has been sucking the life out of me for the past 20 years or so, but I did what I had to do to live on some acreage out in the countryside (or in the mountains in this case). I recently clocked 60 years, so it's official; I've entered "Old Geezer-dom"! I hope to retire in a few years and that's when I'll finally have the time to do whatever I want, including share pics of the collection, hide under a pile of bikes, and write my manifesto. :twisted: Some of my friends started calling me "Jethro" (Beverly Hillbillies reference) since I move to the mountains and started living the life of a hermit. I joke with them that I'm living the "Ted Kaczynski/Jeffrey Dahmer lifestyle" wherein I hang out in bars, look men up and down and think to myself "Now THAT one will look good stuffed into my freezer at home". I whip out the measuring tape and the calculator when they're not looking...

What? Too soon? OK, I'm sorry; that was bad. erase erase

I'm single, so when I finally kick the bucket, no-one will know until the neighbors notice a funny smell and that buzzards have been circling my house for a few days. It won't be a pretty site. No loved ones around my death-bed and sharing my last moments; more likely the local hoodlums finding out I've passed, stepping over my corpse and trying to torch their way into my shipping containers. Boy will they be disappointed to see that they contain nothing but a bunch of old bikes, so the joke's on them!

Why does this make me jealous?

 

[CassidyAce]

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You want a freezer full of male body parts? :shock: