Free Stuff is Addictive
La, co-owner of Volume and Demolition, is sending me their new F1 stem and a set of their 1.80 Zeppelin tires in maroon. Awesome. Now I have to pick my new bike's colour combo around the tires. The Heaton 2 comes in Burgundy, and the forks and bars come in metallic chocolate. Hmm. Or maybe the secret yellow colour. I don't know.
I'm addicted to the free-ness of stuff. Slowly, but damned surely, my friends are starting to charge me for stuff that I used to get for free. Which of course they should. And it's not so much that the stuff will cost me money. I get a certain amount of my self-worth from the fact that I'm hooked up. It's a status thing: it means I matter. This is a sign of a weak character, I think. I'm not really proud of this.
Still, I'd rather not pay.
Let's see, who flows me stuff still: Etnies, Dragon, Demolition, SST, Dedication (new Montreal company), Ugly Ass Bikes, Profile (except titanium), MacNeil (although this might be about to change), Ten Pack (sometimes, but always fair), and Kink and Solid when I ask. The list of people who should flow me stuff: .........
I should stop asking, but I can't. The boldest ask I EVER went for was to Marco Massei: I contacted Tunney about maybe tagging along on a Road Fools for research purposes, and he said ask Marco. What the hell was I thinking there? To Marco's credit, he denied me respectfully.
I once got a complete Huffy Super Deluxe for Ken Paul. That was pushing it.
Hopefully, this next bike will be my last, and I can stop putting the "dick" in addictive.
I'm addicted to the free-ness of stuff. Slowly, but damned surely, my friends are starting to charge me for stuff that I used to get for free. Which of course they should. And it's not so much that the stuff will cost me money. I get a certain amount of my self-worth from the fact that I'm hooked up. It's a status thing: it means I matter. This is a sign of a weak character, I think. I'm not really proud of this.
Still, I'd rather not pay.
Let's see, who flows me stuff still: Etnies, Dragon, Demolition, SST, Dedication (new Montreal company), Ugly Ass Bikes, Profile (except titanium), MacNeil (although this might be about to change), Ten Pack (sometimes, but always fair), and Kink and Solid when I ask. The list of people who should flow me stuff: .........
I should stop asking, but I can't. The boldest ask I EVER went for was to Marco Massei: I contacted Tunney about maybe tagging along on a Road Fools for research purposes, and he said ask Marco. What the hell was I thinking there? To Marco's credit, he denied me respectfully.
I once got a complete Huffy Super Deluxe for Ken Paul. That was pushing it.
Hopefully, this next bike will be my last, and I can stop putting the "dick" in addictive.
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