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FOR SALE- THE BIKE OF DEATH 20.5 Pounds of ALUMINUM TERROR!

For Sale
The BIKE OF DEATH---

 


To make extra change, I often refurbish bicycles that I either find abandoned, or ones that people give me.

A few weeks ago a friend gave me a stash of a half dozen bikes. The other day I posted ads for a couple of the nicer ones. One was an INCREDIBLE 20 pound aluminum Peugeot racing bike.

Sure enough, minutes after I post the ad on Craigslist, someone starts hassling me-- and claims the bike is UNSAFE!!


So what did I do? I made LEMONADE.

People often think that if they TRASH YOU, they've destroyed you.

Nah nah nah nah nah nah.

BRAIN JUDO FLIP.

:-)
 

I sold the bike five minutes after I posted the revised ad.


See the ad here and have a frontal lobes smile on me.
...

 

FOR SALE

The BIKE OF DEATH---

ALUMINUM Road Bike 20.5 pounds of TERROR  $200



Did you ever want to KILL YOURSELF-- but you just couldn't bring yourself to jump off a bridge? Do you shudder at the sight of blood? Would you look bad with rope rash or red wrist marks?

Well, here's your chance to surprise yourself, and not even know when THE MOMENT WILL BE.

A GREAT LIGHT Peugeot Galaxie , Pechiney ALL ALUMINUM Road Bike (frame, forks), all Shimano 105 gears, shifters, cranks, brakes, the real deal.

20.5 pounds of Sheer Crazy Psychotic FEAR. You want EXTREME SPORTS? Now THIS is EXTREME.

The French hate Americans, and have been trying to kill us off unsuccessfully in their own country since Normandy, and have been largely unsuccessful. This is a covert post-war attempt that has quietly achieved this goal, although in smaller numbers than originally hoped for.

Uh-- did someone say this was NOT Pechiney? Uh.......this is on the bike above the shifters. Looks like P E C H I N E Y to me. Aluminum from Australia.




A beautiful road bike for anyone capable of thinking outside the corporate-name-decal-on-my-bike-like-my-fat-neighbor box.
Silver with blue striping, gorgeous chrome lug joints, straight, all aluminum frame bike.

Be the only one on your block to have a 20 pound Peugeot Galaxie, actually, probably the only LIVING owner of such in your city or state, or maybe anywhere east of the English Channel.

This is an EXTREMELY RARE BIKE, a true COLLECTORS ITEM, a MUSEUM PIECE of HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE, as all of the former owners are now DEAD, having been mashed into little bits when their own Peugeot Galaxie disintegrated while they were in the middle of an intersection, and thus were run over by a 60mph Mack Truck hauling chickens to the KFC Factory on the edge of town:

Proof Positive-- Well come on-- YOU BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ ON THE INTERNET DON'T YOU?!?

The UNSUBSTANTIATED RUMOR/Story/Recollection/Whatever found on exactly ONE PAGE on the entire World Wide Web. It may or may not be true, you decide with your life in the balance:
http://www.bikeforums.net/archive/index.php/t-69201.html

 

".....Heres my recolection of the Comete/Galaxie issue. The frames tubes, seat, top, down and all 4 stays were joined to the lugs without a bonding agent or without welds. Peugeot called it the 'Pechiney' process. Quote form the catalogue "The assembly of the frame is performed with a special, patented technique that fits the tubes into the lugs without the use of any bonding process such as welding or glue."

[Yes, it's been discovered that they used special Magic French Fairy Wands that spray Elmer's Bicycle Glue.-N.S.]

Basically they were press fit together. When Peugeot decided to pull out of the American market they recalled all of the Comete/Galaxie bikes to clear themselves of any future possible litigation. (they were worried about future lawsuits) I asked if there were any frame failures which helped lead to this decision and was told 'no'. Do you think they'd actually say 'yes'? I worked at the dealer thast handled the nationwide recall. We literally sawed some of the frames in half..."



Well now--- THAT'S INTERESTING! "my recollection..." yet, he then offers "Quote form the catalogue.."


Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. I guess he's recalling from way back when he put back down on the table 3 seconds ago the catalog he's quoting from.

Uh huh. Makes about as much sense as a "Quote FORM the catalogue"

Okay, maybe he saves 25 year old Peugeot sales materials, and this is what he REMEMBERS otherwise.

Does this Bicycling Expert who handled the NATIONAL recall (so he claims) CITE a SINGLE CASE of FRAME FAILURE? Nope.

CAN ANYONE? Haven't seen it.

Look, you've got about 20 billion WWW sources possible. You would think there would be SOMETHING.

There isn't. Gee.

Anyway, Here's what you do if you are particularly paranoid or clever....


You take out an INSURANCE POLICY on somebody you want to get rid of, give them the bike, and then collect on the policy after they take this bike on the Tour de France.

Or you insure yourself, name the beneficiary of your choice, and take a trip down Independence Pass on New Years Day, and die knowing that you've left something for people to remember you by.

The buyer of this bike assumes ALL LIABILITY for their health after purchase, and the seller assumes none. And you will have to put it in writing.

ALL original SHIMANO including crank, brakes, dérailleurs.

Extremely light, paint is very good, decals need a little touch up here and there nothing serious, all Shimano 105, straight rims.

The frame shows absolutely no sign of catastrophic failure, falling apart, being loose, in fact-- I WOULD RIDE THIS BIKE MYSELF if I was tall enough. Yea, though I walk through the Valley of MASI, I fear no evil.

Are you a smoker? Has your house been tested and mitigated for RADON? Are you overweight?

Your chances of DEATH from these activities is probably a hundred times greater than dying on this bike. But if you like to gamble-- hey, give it a shot-- put some EXCITEMENT into your life. Live a LITTLE. Be different.

Or, you can ride a TREK.

Good for any rider 5'8" or taller, 57cm (22.5") down tube (seat/down tube--axle to top of top tube length)



What a great gift this would make for your boss or lazy husband or any sado masochist.

"The human brain has infinite potential"- Sir John Eccles.
"Unfortunately, most people don't come close to approaching it."- T.D.A. Lingo





Incidentally, yes, the toy piano is a Schoenhut, given to me by a flute student whom I taught for 12 years.

Note: With all respect to people who have been injured on a bike, as in anything, like flying airplanes, driving your Ford Fairlane, or even driving fragile potentially lethal Lotus cars on the Interstate (like I do) you INSPECT the vehicle for problems regularly, and if there is a sign of a problem, you address it. You don't fly an airplane with a wing that is coming loose, and you don't drive your Lotus with a loose steering wheel. In this case, sawing this bike in half would made about as much sense as taking my Lotus Elan to the junkyard as a precautionary measure because Jim Clark died racing a Lotus at Hockenheimring.


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