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07-29-2008, 11:32 AM
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Retired Surfer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sunset Grill
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Canal Bike Rehabbed
After leaving the bike I got from Pepsi ten years ago outside for the last couple of years the chain no longer would do what it is supposed to do. That is go around the sprockets. I took it to the Bike Barn in Whitman on route 18 last week for that new chain. I left it outside first and coyly walked in the front door just to ask if it was o.k. to bring it inside. The average price of thier two-wheel machines is about $1500.00. In fact two of the ones they were working on last week when I was there looked like the price was substantially higher than average. Anyway I bring in this canal bike baskets and all on it, and the looks I got was hilarious. The tech who put on the new chain was very pleasant. No wise-as remarks. I decided that since PJ the tech was so nice I would let them make a few other fix ups on it. PJ explained everything to me just as if I was buying one of the new racing machines they sell. They just called and let me know it is ready. Just based on how decent they were at the Bike Barn I would reccomend them to anyone.
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Swimmer a.k.a. YO YO MA
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09-01-2008, 05:49 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Recently relocated to the shores of Rhode Island - East Bay!
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Swimmer - You got pictures? Outfitting a bike right now.
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09-01-2008, 06:23 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Landlocked in my own prison
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Did he pimp your ride? Chrome everwhere, pom pom tassels hanging from the grips and trading cards in the spokes?
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"Love is like a snowmobile racing across the tundra then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
Matt Groening, Life In Hell
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09-01-2008, 09:03 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: MA/RI
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I can see you now, cruising down the canal with flashing blue lights and ringing your bell.  |
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09-01-2008, 09:14 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Hull, MA
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I've dealt with them since they were a tiny little shop(close to 20 yrs ago), very nice guy that owns it and excellent staff, woudn't dream of going elswhere
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09-02-2008, 10:06 AM
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No Shorts On
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Bassachusetts
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Uncle Matt
Did he pimp your ride? Chrome everwhere, pom pom tassels hanging from the grips and trading cards in the spokes?
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What the heck is wrong with pimping your ride?? I know someone that has a pa system and sireeeeeen system rigged on HIS bike   |
Bob Thomas
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09-02-2008, 10:09 AM
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Spot Preserver
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Mansfield
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Style is good for a canal cruiser.  |
Make America Great Again.
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09-02-2008, 04:30 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Landlocked in my own prison
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Matt knows that I'm talking about!
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"Love is like a snowmobile racing across the tundra then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
Matt Groening, Life In Hell
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09-03-2008, 06:11 PM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
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without an assistant this thread is just, well a little vanilla.
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"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
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09-03-2008, 07:17 PM
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Permanently Disconnected
Join Date: Nov 2002
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What he said 
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Originally Posted by ProfessorM
without an assistant this thread is just, well a little vanilla.
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09-07-2008, 10:56 AM
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Retired Surfer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sunset Grill
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris in Mass
Swimmer - You got pictures? Outfitting a bike right now.
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Its just a basic mountain bike, not sure it is worth pic's |
Swimmer a.k.a. YO YO MA
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09-07-2008, 11:17 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Whitman,Ma.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Swimmer
Its just a basic mountain bike, not sure it is worth pic's
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It would be if you had an assistant  |
I'm going where I'm going... 
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09-07-2008, 11:22 AM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
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Yeah you must get an assistant or it will be just another canal bike and I have one of those already so i don't need to see it.
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"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
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09-07-2008, 04:54 PM
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Retired Surfer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sunset Grill
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Squid kids Dad
It would be if you had an assistant |
To get my wife to pose as did Bronko's wife did I would have to get a whole bottle of Chardonay in her. She looks pretty good for 58. |
Swimmer a.k.a. YO YO MA
Serial Mailbox Killer/Seal Fisherman
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