Bigfoot Lives
April 22, 2015
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As a moth to the open fire I returned to the cyber enabler of my two-wheeled obsession: Craigslist. Buying a used dirt cycle is a crap shoot. Most of them are hideously abused together with neglected, crashed alongside plenty regularity to curvature only virtually everything, on altitude of that they are forced to last on a steady diet of dust, grit, mud, H2O together with massaging yesteryear ham-fisted blockheads alongside vice grips together with Cro-Magnon intentions. Buying a proficient dirt cycle inwards my cost attain ($1000 or less) is akin to cryptozoology, at that topographic point are legends together with rumors together with occasionally a blurry photo, but these creatures in all likelihood don't actually exist. Still, it is fun looking.
Exhaustive searching turns upward the commons suspects: clapped out shit boxes breathing their final breaths alongside blown suspensions, unloose spokes, swingarms one-half sawed through yesteryear stretched out chains advertised equally "completely rebuilt" because Billy together with Dylan stuck a build novel "Wiz Co" piston inwards a scored cylinder without together with hence much equally honing it or using novel gaskets. Despite having been away from the dirt cycle dissonance for over a decade, I estimate or together with hence things never change.
Most of these ads don't warrant a mo look, alongside titles written inwards broken English linguistic communication that really epitomize the failure of our populace instruction system. This would live almost funny except for the fact that these monkeys are unloose all over the internet, together with they appear to live breeding at an alarming rate.
Only 1 advertizement piques my interest, it is for a 1989 KDX200. From the pictures it appears to live good preserved, alongside many juicy upgrades such equally Excel rims, stainless spokes together with an FMF pipe. Two to a greater extent than details convince me to contact the owner: 1. It comes alongside a "running" parts cycle together with 2. It has a clear street legal title. The call for cost is $1,600, out of my range, but equally anyone who has used Craigslist earlier knows, everything is negotiable.
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Exhaustive searching turns upward the commons suspects: clapped out shit boxes breathing their final breaths alongside blown suspensions, unloose spokes, swingarms one-half sawed through yesteryear stretched out chains advertised equally "completely rebuilt" because Billy together with Dylan stuck a build novel "Wiz Co" piston inwards a scored cylinder without together with hence much equally honing it or using novel gaskets. Despite having been away from the dirt cycle dissonance for over a decade, I estimate or together with hence things never change.
Most of these ads don't warrant a mo look, alongside titles written inwards broken English linguistic communication that really epitomize the failure of our populace instruction system. This would live almost funny except for the fact that these monkeys are unloose all over the internet, together with they appear to live breeding at an alarming rate.
Only 1 advertizement piques my interest, it is for a 1989 KDX200. From the pictures it appears to live good preserved, alongside many juicy upgrades such equally Excel rims, stainless spokes together with an FMF pipe. Two to a greater extent than details convince me to contact the owner: 1. It comes alongside a "running" parts cycle together with 2. It has a clear street legal title. The call for cost is $1,600, out of my range, but equally anyone who has used Craigslist earlier knows, everything is negotiable.
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