[fabsroman]

Yeah, I tell hunters how much I spend on bike and they have a heart attack. I tell bike riders how much I spend on a sporting clays o/u and they have a heart attack.

The type of bike wherein the rider lays down in is called a recumbent. I would never ride one of those things. Too hard to keep in a straight line and too low for drivers to actually see the rider.

I am usually pretty safe while riding. I hold a very straight line to the right of the white line if there is a shoulder, and when there is no shoulder I hold a straight line next to the white line. My only addiction is drafting off of trucks. I drafted a mail truck at 46 mph earlier in the month and drafted a dump truck at 38 mph in the middle of the month. Both were for several miles. While I was drafting the dump truck, I had a park police office pull up beside me and shake his finger at me. Needless to say, I pulled out of the draft from the truck. I have drafted school buses before and the kids were cheering like crazy. The crowd of kids at the back of the bus was insane.

I too have a mountain bike, but I only paid $800 for it. I am not that into mountain bike riding, but bought one because my two sisters were getting mountain bikes and they wanted me to ride with them. That was 6 or so years ago. We rode a lot for the first year, then a little the second year. After that, I was the only one riding the mountain bike. However, we did happen to go once last year before my wedding. Other than that, my sisters' bikes have been sitting in my parents' garage collecting dust.


Quigley,

The only reason you sit there thinking that I am an idiot is because I am willing to post about all my screw ups so that I can get advice. I talked with several people about this e-bay issue last night, and have decided that e-bay just isn't for me. The amount of time I spent tracking these auctions and searching for them, I could have spent working on client's cases and made enough money to buy the wheels and frame brand new, as I did with the frame.

Most people keep their screw ups quiet because they do not want other people to think they are idiots. I put mine out there if I think people can offer me help/advice. I would rather learn before a real disaster happens then keep my pride and get burned.

Of course, I am sure that you, being as smart as you are, have never made any mistakes in life. One of my brothers calls me the smartest dumb man ever, because he thinks I have no common sense. Of course, when he put $25,000 of his own money down on a new house with his girlfriend, and they broke up a month before the house was finished and he had to go to settlement, guess who he called. He lost the $25,000 deposit because he didn't want to go through with settlement (i.e., he couldn't afford the monthly payments on his own at the time).

We all make mistakes. Some of us are man enough to own up to them and we do not care what other people think. Think all you want about how much of an idiot I am, that is fine with me. Heck, I prefer for opposing counsel to think that I am a moron, that way I can get the upperhand on them as they sit back and think they are going to roll right over me. The best adversary is one that under estimates his opponent, not that we are adversaries.