Wa, si pei sui ah!
If you think _______ is bad, wait till you go to school!
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Sounds wierd? Sure.
Sounds childish? Definitely.
All you guys in the Army think I’m nuts? I think the Army was a lot more fun.
All you people out there slogging your asses off twenty hours a day at your bosses’ beck and call; getting peanuts; worrying about the social ladder, paying for a new car, flat and wedding dinner; getting backstabbed; breathing in cigarette smoke; rushing to meet deadlines so that the news comes out on time, think that I’m crazy? Uh, I don’t think I wanna do all that, but hey, I’m sure you don’t like school either!
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Okay, enough nonsense.
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Last week, the Nitto rack arrived; today, the Brooks saddle arrived. Works of art, both - beautiful yet functional. Every day is like Christmas! Yippee-do-dah-yay! I have another parcel coming my way - a Jitensha-studio-designed-Nitto-made flat handlebar with curves. Say c u r v e s. Ooo. Curvy is good. Curvy is classic. Curvy is pleasing to the eye.
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I know just what to do with the Cilo Mixte (did I mention that I bought it?) - bring it to Sulaiman to have the frame sanded, braze on the eyelets and hourglasses, paint it a nice, dark colour, maybe British Racing Green, Maroon, Deep Blue, or Dark Red, with a cream panel in between the headtube lugs.
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Oh the lugs! Every Tom, Dick and Harry bicycle in Italy has lugs, and they’re nice lugs too. Here, we don’t see them so often anymore, so anything that has lugs is a wonder to behold. After so many years, I finally have something with lugs.
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On my side, I’m looking forward to a few good weeks of sanding and polishing the parts. Coarse emery cloth, fine emery cloth, metal polisher, and a good buff with a soft cloth to bring out the deep, dark shine. Nothing beats the smell of grease and polish and oil. Nothing beats having hands stained a deep blue with Autosol. This is a what a man should be doing in his free time. Oops. That didn’t sound quite right.
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With a total of six (6) bicycles on hand now, I think I need to rent some parking space. Does anyone have a room to let? Will play piano for floor space!
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Lo and behold, someone listed a 42cm Bridgestone XO-1 in deep purple today. Oh me, oh my, what a bicycle! I asked my god-brother if he wanted it. It would be really nice to have one of those in the family.
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Eh, lim peh ai bike si AXE OH ONE leh. Mai sng hor. What bike you liding? Taiwan welded one arh? Har har har har, mai hor wa chior la. Har har har. Wa aye AXE OH ONE si LUGGED eh hor. Ler kwar hor seh, L-U-G-G-E-D eh, si bei sui hor.
