Anything Else I Should Do For 2 Year Maintenance? - Page 6

 

On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 22:52:29 -0400, "Beauregard T. Shagnasty"


I have to agree with BTS.  Cruisers with forward controls are best
left to only the most skilled riders among us.

 


I wonder if you can help me out, Don. I'm having the hardest time finding
just the right set for the Sprint. Thought I would look at a set of ape
hangers, too, while I was poking around those sites. They look really
great... wondering now more than ever why more people don't use 'em. Anyway,
you know how I am with chrome bling on my bike. Wondered if you knew of
anyone who sells them in asphalt powdercoat.

Thanks in advance.

 

Dnia 2008-09-09 David T. Ashley napisa³(a):

All good pretexts, I can't find a fault in them, but you didn't mention
a real reason yet. ;-)

You'll make a biker all right.  At least you have one crucial skill down
pat.  No biker can survive without an ability to skillfully rationalize
whatever he is doing to himself or his bike.  ;-)


Wise lady.  I like her already.


I'd buy a bike from you.  Even if it was a slightly crashed Shadow.  ;-)

--
Andrzej Rosa

 


That sums up all of human nature, not just bikers.  Have you ever had
exposure to Dale Carnegie's classic work, "How to Win Friends and Influence
People"?

Carnegie essentially makes the argument that there is no right way to win a
dispute.  If you win, you've really lost.  All about human psychological
defense mechanisms.


As a seller, you SHOULD trust me.

The important point for me is just full disclosure.  I'd gladly tell a buyer
that I kissed the concrete 3 times but nothing made it to the frame, and the
steering stem and all has been inspected.

I don't believe in withholding information.  Everyone has the right to
determine the limits of their own safety.  Full disclosure is part of that
package.

 

Dnia 2008-09-09 David T. Ashley napisa³(a):

I didn't have the pleasure of reading this guy, and he might have a
point.  Though, to be honest, I don't really think that winning disputes
is useless.  If it was, we wouldn't dispute and try so hard to actually
win them.  We dispute for, say, 50 000 years.  Time enough for natural
selection to weed out "unfit" disputees.  


It is, and it often works, I agree.  Though do not expect the same
behavior from everybody who may sell you a bike.  Other strategies also
work...

--
Andrzej Rosa