It is a habit man!!! My ebay watchlist is constantly at maximum and I have found myself buying parts I don't need - because it was a deal (I am now hiding the VISA bill from my wife!) or I might use it in the future. How many of us keep looking for that perfect part for a build while buying pieces which might just do? The reality, of course, is that few of us will ever be displaying our machines as concourse quality.
On a related note, I went in to teach my class last week and plugged my laptop up to the electronic teaching setup, turned on the projector and found my latest ebay search (always in the Vintage Bike and Bike Parts section) projected on the screen!!! I had forgotten to reduce the window or to exit my browser. Fortunately, most of the students in that class "It's Your Environment" know my interest in bikes and are cool with it.
Paul Williams, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada - where I am off to teach and have just realised that ebay is still up!!!
<classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 10:59 AM Subject: RE: [CR]Problem? I don't have a problem.
> Tom Dalton Wrote.
> It's all over when you realize that you needed that part because it has a
> little shield around the logo and your five other examples do not, and
> that
> as much as you "needed" that part, you don't actually even own bike that
> would call for it.
>
>
> To which I respond.
> Is there an error in the progression? Why would you need the bike? It's
> called the discipline of readiness.
>
> Howard Darr
> Kinsman OH USA