Bling
So at this point I’ve got pretty much all that I’ve wanted for my bicycles.
Campy Record? I’ve got the hubs.
Dura Ace? I’ve got the whole gruppo.
XTR? I’ve got them from nine hundred to nine-five-two. And both five-arm cranksets no less.
Three months ago a friend mentioned the classic pearl white Sante crankset, apparently quite rare. Three nights ago I bought a bicycle with it. It’s a rather numb feeling when I’m finally holding in my hands the very thing that I might have pursued for months. The chase is over; the fun has ended. Owning the item isn’t quite as exciting as trying to get it.
I’ve got six frames and almost twenty wheels; lugged, TIG-welded, steel, titanium. My room really looks like a shop now. The question is: Where do I go from here? What else is there for me to get that I haven’t already got?
A 1964 Rene Herse mixte? A Toei? A Mercian?
Let’s wait and see.
May 31st, 2006 at 4:06 pm
“With your feet on earth,
you dream of heaven”
- words from a Catholic bishop, Fulton J Sheen.
We can never find true happiness - eternal bliss - until we find we begin to seek to love the Giver of our gifts, instead of the gifts themselves.
Fulton says:
“You were MADE for PERFECT HAPPINESS.
That is your purpose.
No wonder everything short of God disappoints you.”
Haha. Chew on this. ; )
May 31st, 2006 at 8:00 pm
Any bicycles by the name of ‘god’?