Thursday, September 15, 2005

sold out

I`ve sold two of my three custom Solid bikes in the last week. Usually, I give the bikes away when I`m done. Something has shifted in my thinking though. I think I`m allowed to sell the stuff I get for free after a certain amount of time. Not sure how long yet, though. And it seems that it is OK to do it if the money made goes back into my BMX life or at least toys. One of the two went towards getting a new cruiser for a dear friend, the other (my third "Vancouver" bike) was sold to simplify my life on the one hand (less bikes), but hypocritically, to finance guitar #4.
The point of this is that I haven`t really figured out where I stand on this. There has been a shift though.
As my free stuff runs dry and the industry`s budgets get tighter, I think I can trade up on getting new stuff that I now have to pay for. The titanium stuff ain`t cheap. Even at wholesale.