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The Ugly American

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  1. The thought of how many wonderful trials frames and forks have made it into a scrap pile gives me night terrors. I wish I'd horded all of mine as well. That's what I get for not being afraid of the kung flu. They just look so lonely when they're not being ridden. Do you think some of these trials companies could get a subsidy since they technically died of Covid? 😆
  2. It appears to be ruff all over holmes. I'm in the US and had to split an order between Tarty and trials-bikes.com out of spain. Over here we only have Web Cyclery and the trials superstore, the Canadian site I used to parous closed down. And our trials forum looks more like 4chan than a community. At least where you're at people have bikes stashed in their garage. I found a few ancient trials bikes on eBay, I'm talking early to late 80's. I'm hoping I win the bid on a planet x I found. But if I do I'll immediately have to hit up Tarty or WebCyclery for parts. If you want a 24" inspired people who bought those and never used to ride cross-country mountain bikes fitted for trials at the skate park are buying those thinking that's what makes Danny Macaskill a good rider and then selling them at a discount. And Santacruz an American company makes a bike just for Danny, but doesn't sell the damn things. Or at least that's what I've run into. I would love to have bought the more reasonably priced Alias 24.1 but apparently that didn't last long enough to find one. I think I found a French webstore that had a few of those left, but I already put a bid in on the other so I have to wait. Either way the downside of living in a country with states the size of three European countries combined is having to wait a lot. Adulting is fun ain't it. Welcome back. Enjoy the privileges of proximity my guy. You are blessed.
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