Clueless Craigslist Girl

[Cataboo]

I thought the "Tandem mountain bike-ready for the trails!" was bad. It was an old road hybrid-like tandem complete with backwards fork.

I'm sure the tandem was worse. This was just funny. Sweet girl though

[Zen]

"Ooooooh Saaaaadnesssss"

My new favorite phrase.

[lph]

this story is still cracking me up

[Cataboo]

It's a nice change from the other personality type I've been running into on craigslist lately... the lonely bike guy.

He wants to bike, but he's got a wife and kids. So instead he spends time buying bike pieces and upgrading his bike and selling bike pieces to appease the wife...

When I go pick up said pieces... Lonely bike guy is soooo happy to be able to talk bikes that he keeps me talking for an hour or two.

I picked up some shifters on Sunday from a lonely bike guy. He wants to go biking with me this Sunday! He heard I had a titanium mountain bike frame, so he couldn't sleep all night and.... Ordered himself a titanium mountain bike frame the next morning.

He seemed like a nice guy, his wife & kid were right there... but oh wow, do some people just wanna talk bikes!

The old man who lives across the street from me will quite often run and get his bike when I bring mine out. He'll then start pumping up its tire, or fixing something on it... or he'll go start fiddling with the bike rack on his son's car... He seems to be another lonely bike guy. I never actually see him on a bike, he just pulls it out as a prop when I come out with a bike.

[sgtiger]

LOL! One of my friends used to like to say I was one of two Asian blonds he knew - the other being his adopted brother. If I was acting air-headed or clumsy, he would tease that my blond roots were showing.

I think that website was inspired by all the Stuff Asian ________ Like blogs and top twenty lists. My favorite is Stuff Korean Moms Like. I can relate to quite a few of those. Some of them stretch the truth only a tiny bit, like the force feeding one.

Catronia, how true about the archetype of the lonely bike guy. I've definitely met a few of those. They are wistful when they hear that Dh got me interested in biking and want to know how they can get their wives to ride more.

[Cataboo]

Catronia, how true about the archetype of the lonely bike guy. I've definitely met a few of those. They are wistful when they hear that Dh got me interested in biking and want to know how they can get their wives to ride more.

Yeah, they're always wistful when they hear that I do a lot of outdoor stuff with my boyfriend. Which is actually a pleasant change from doing it by myself with previous boyfriends.

I'm always slightly irked by one of my bf's coworkers - who used to talk to my bf about how to get his wife to get interested in biking or exercising (she was a stay at home mom with his young kid & he worked and raced all the time), but now he talks about his new gf - who races with him and is in his bike racing club or something.

[Biciclista]

I run into those lonely bike guys too! (this looks like a major thread shift)

last weekend, i was riding a trail near the waterfront and this guy comes up to me and admires my bike, (his is a big purple Davidson, beautifully done)
he knows I commute to work because he's been in my building. I ask him if he does, he sighs, my wife won't let me. That also probably meant he is riding alone because she doesn't ride.
Another coworker went nuts riding, went from being a blob to really really quite fit, but his wife "can't" ride, and after a couple years, he quit riding and is getting blobbier everyday. sad sad.