Best Bike Buying Advice, EVER!

**ny biker** · 02-26-2009, 09:24 AM

Originally Posted by redrhodie

When I was 20-something, I lived in a "one bedroom" apt in NYC that had a bathtub in the kitchen. I built a loft in the "bedroom" that fit a twin size futon, and hung my clothes underneath, because there was no closet. The window in the "bedroom" which was probably the only reason it was not called a "closet," looked into another couples apartment, where I could see them having sex, which they liked to do standing in front of the window. Maybe their bedroom was too small for even a twin size bed!

Cheez, when I lived in NYC I had to pay for basic cable in order to watch other people having sex. You got free entertainment!

p.s. speaking of exhibitionists, I would just like to point out that Madonna is a 50-year-old woman who no doubt has an Amex card. And she could probably snap Smurf's friend in half. (She could probably snap most guys in half.)

**redrhodie** · 02-26-2009, 09:27 AM

Originally Posted by ny biker

Cheez, when I lived in NYC I had to pay for basic cable in order to watch other people having sex. You got free entertainment!

Cable?! I wish--I couldn't afford cable!

**Biciclista** · 02-26-2009, 09:55 AM

Yeah, when I was in my 20's I didn't have a bike either. COuldn't afford one. Had to chose between going to college and eating, so I picked eating and dropped out of college and got a job. I drove broken down old cars and didn't have car insurance!!
i wish I could be in a 20 year old body again, but, with all the sense and knowledge and physical strength and stick-to-itiveness I have now!

**Veronica** · 02-26-2009, 10:01 AM

Youth is wasted on the young.

That made no sense when I was young.

Veronica

**BleeckerSt_Girl** · 02-26-2009, 10:06 AM

Originally Posted by ny biker

Cheez, when I lived in NYC I had to pay for basic cable in order to watch other people having sex. You got free entertainment!

Oh YEAH????...well when *I* lived in NYC they hadn't INVENTED cable tv yet. Most people didn't even have color tv yet. Or cordless phones. Or even push-button phones. Or digital watches and clocks. Or cds, DVDs, no video tapes or cassette players, or even 8-track tapes! or personal computers, internet, email, fax machines, microwave ovens, personal copiers, Walkmans (it was only transistor radios then), boom boxes, word processors (anyone remember typewriters & carbon paper?) or skateboards, roller blades...credit cards?- only for rich folk and executives.... oh I can go on and on but I'm feeling ancient at this point. (and yet somehow still hot!)

p.s. speaking of exhibitionists, I would just like to point out that Madonna is a 50-year-old woman who no doubt has an Amex card. And she could probably snap Smurf's friend in half. (She could probably snap most guys in half.)

First she'd adopt him, then snap him in half.

**Crankin** · 02-26-2009, 10:40 AM

Oy. This is making me laugh.
Re: how we feel about ourselves compared to how we looked/felt earlier in our lives.
I recently came across a family picture, taken in 1997. I was in the middle of my "sick of going to the gym" phase and half heartedly working out. My husband played tennis and vigorously declined any other sort of physical activity.
I saw a 40 something guy with a big belly, waiting for a heart attack. When I looked at myself, I saw a perimenopausal woman who was getting pretty wide, despite the nice hair cut and stylish jeans.
I showed the picture to my husband who said, "Geez, we look a lot better now!" And then we both said we wished we had started cycling a lot sooner!

**uforgot** · 02-26-2009, 12:40 PM

Originally Posted by ny biker

p.s. speaking of exhibitionists, I would just like to point out that Madonna is a 50-year-old woman who no doubt has an Amex card. And she could probably snap Smurf's friend in half. (She could probably snap most guys in half.)

Is it just me or am I aging and forgetting. It seems to me that when Madonna first became popular she was pretty close to my age, within a year, and now she's four years younger. How does that work???

**Biciclista** · 02-26-2009, 12:42 PM

Originally Posted by uforgot

Is it just me or am I aging and forgetting. It seems to me that when Madonna first became popular she was pretty close to my age, within a year, and now she's four years younger. How does that work???

Her actual birth date is August 16, 1958. She will be 51 this year...not in her early 40s as WikiAnswers stated when asked, "How old is Madonna."

**OakLeaf** · 02-26-2009, 12:47 PM

Originally Posted by redrhodie

Cable?! I wish--I couldn't afford cable!

Cable? I couldn't afford a TV!

Or furniture, apart from the delightful enormous dresser I got for $10 from Goodwill (and still own, a perfect place for blankets and cycling clothes). I was afraid of what kind of bedding I might be able to afford there

I slept in a sleeping bag on the floor until I married my first husband.

I had a bike, which was this weird thing called "transportation," since I didn't have a car.

**Zen** · 02-26-2009, 01:23 PM

WELL I HAD TO WALK TO SCHOOL BAREFOOT IN THE SNOW AND IT WAS UPHILL THERE AND BACK

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**lph** · 02-26-2009, 01:29 PM

and you probably had to get up before you went to bed, too.

And young people of today - they just don't believe it!

**ny biker** · 02-26-2009, 01:54 PM

When I was in grad school, I lived in a studio apartment in Evanston, IL. There was a futon on the floor, which was my bed and my sofa. I had two chairs and an end table that I found at a garage sale, but the chairs were uncomfortable, so they were mostly for decorative purposes. My dresser was from a garage sale, too.

The windows were all really old and had gaps around them. I pushed plastic grocery bags into the gaps in a feeble attempt to keep the cold air out in the winter.

Ironically, this place had a separate kitchen, and it was the only apartment I've ever had that had room for a table in the kitchen. I had a cheap metal table that I must have gotten at Kmart or some such. There was a nice set of french doors (again, the only time I've ever had anything like that) between the kitchen and the main room. But there was no radiator in the kitchen, so in the winter I had to keep the doors closed in order to keep the temperature reasonable in the main room. Which meant I had to wear my coat and hat when I went into the kitchen to make the ramen noodles or macaroni and cheese (with diced hotdogs mixed in and some peas for color, of course.)

I had a 13-inch TV that my parents had given me as a gift.

When I lived there, I told myself that someday I would look back and figure those were the good old days when life was simple.

When I graduated and started working, the first thing I did was go out and buy myself a stereo. Which I still have, 20 years later. I did replace the tape deck with a CD player.

**uforgot** · 02-26-2009, 01:56 PM

Originally Posted by Zen

WELL I HAD TO WALK TO SCHOOL BAREFOOT IN THE SNOW AND IT WAS UPHILL THERE AND BACK

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Well, I rode my bike to school and I was verrrry sexy because I was so young!

**divingbiker** · 02-26-2009, 01:58 PM

Originally Posted by ny biker

When I graduated and started working, the first thing I did was go out and buy myself a stereo.

My first purchase was a washer and dryer. I grew up going to the laundromat, so having my own W/D meant I had made it!

**Tokie** · 02-26-2009, 08:01 PM

The theme of this thread has kind of changed. My only claim to suffering in college that is of any amusement is that I always had a "party line" for phone service. A good $ saver. I remember being on hold while trying to make airline reservations to go home for Christmas (thanks to Mom and Dad). I was on hold for a long time, and the other "party" came on the phone and yelled at my for tying up "our " line. Housing was always fairly decent and affordable in Pocatello Idaho! by the way, I am too silly to be hot. Tokie

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