Heavily capitalised society...

[3narf]

Point 2 my sturmy gears have worked like that for years and there not even electrical don't think there meant to though

The old SA 3-neutral hub!

 

[3narf]

I would love to be in the position where I think £700 on a jockey wheel is a good idea.

It would mean that either I have become rich beyond my realistic expectations or I have succumbed to some sort of age related mental disorder in which case it won't matter anyway. You could probably just tell me I already had them and I'd be happy.

No, you'd be able to tell. Surely they make the bike a lot faster?!

 

[3narf]

This ex-paperboy notes that the generosity of Christmas tip was always inversely proportional to the size of the house.

Hear tell, but I always assumed it was an urban myth!

My mum wouldn't let me have a paper round. Or a Raleigh Chopper.

 

[User482]

Hear tell, but I always assumed it was an urban myth!

My mum wouldn't let me have a paper round. Or a Raleigh Chopper.

I used to deliver down a private road: tight feckers, most of them, and their papers used to weigh a ton. The council houses further along were much more reliable.

 

[3narf]

Would you though? My experience of wealthy people is that they have a tendency to be a bit tight and hate spending money.

Yes, like George Osborne! Surely in 1st year economics they teach you that you can't create wealth by putting it in a shoebox under your bed?!

Bloody hell, I've done it again! Off topic with a political rant.

Er, I mean blinking heck! God, too late... Err, I mean G4d.... HELP!!

 

[3narf]

I used to deliver down a private road: tight feckers, most of them, and their papers used to weigh a ton. The council houses further along were much more reliable.

I remember my mate telling me similar of his youth in Stockport, except he said the council houses and the big mansions were generous but the noovo riche were tight. This before the squeezed middle as well...

I said never mind about your youth in Stockport, tell me about your own experiences!

 

[Smokin Joe]

I used to deliver down a private road: tight feckers, most of them, and their papers used to weigh a ton. The council houses further along were much more reliable.

I do cash on delivery and at Christmas the poorer people are the most generous tippers by far. They are also most likely to tell you to forget the change when it is only a few pence (Sometimes a few quid) whereas the well off will often stand there patiently while you run back to the car in the pouring rain to get the 1p change.

 

[Tin Pot]

So I dropped my daughter off at gymnastics last night and went to the pub; there were a couple of articles in Cyclist November issue that got me thinking.

1) 3D printed titanium jockey wheels at £700 a pair. It seems to me two types of people will buy these: professional teams, and self-gratification artists. Reading through all the PR gimmickry and after printing they still need further processes! Isn't it true, CeramicSpeed, that the whole point of 3D printing them is that you can say you did, and attract more self-gratification artists?

2) Electronic gear systems are going to shift gear for us when they think we need to change ratios. Can anybody think of anything worse? Not so easy to dismiss as the above, because I'm sure it will happen and eventually trickle down. I feel about 100 years old.

SOCIETY.

1) 3D printing is an amazing technology, the only thing more amazing is people's violent reaction against it

2) Automatic shifting took decades to become acceptable in motoring

 

[EasyPeez]

They say you have to vote with your feet, well I'm voting with my lack of disposable income.

Have that, £700 jockey wheels.

This lack of disposable income of which you speak; that wouldn't have anything to do with you buying £4,000+ worth of bicycles in the last couple of years would it...

 

[mythste]

This lack of disposable income of which you speak; that wouldn't have anything to do with you buying £4,000+ worth of bicycles in the last couple of years would it...

As If I don't have to deal with that crushing reality every day... Why would you do that to me?!

 

[GrumpyGregry]

There seem to be a lot of threads lately in which people express their fury at the existence of things that they cannot afford, but don't actually want.

Chill out. Ordinary jockey wheels last for ages.

Now titanium 3d printed jockey shorts are quite another matter. Boy, do they make me angry.

There may also be folk expressing their fury at the existence of things they can afford but don't actually want.

Everything isn't about envy.

 

[Dogtrousers]

There may also be folk expressing their fury at the existence of things they can afford but don't actually want.

I saw some reasonably priced kidney beans in the shop last night, but I didn't actually want any. I was furious.

 

[EasyPeez]

I saw some reasonably priced kidney beans in the shop last night, but I didn't actually want any. I was furious.

If those kidney beans had been on sale for £700 a tin, would you have been more or less angry?

 

[Markymark]

Tosh. Some people are mean. Some are generous. It is irrelevant how much money they have.

 

[EasyPeez]

There may also be folk expressing their fury at the existence of things they can afford but don't actually want.

Everything isn't about envy.

Agreed. Surely it can be about frustration/exasperation, rather than jealousy?

Maybe you can afford and choose to buy £700 jockey wheels/£250,000 sports cars/£50,000 watches/insert expensive and unnecessary product here. Maybe you can afford to buy such things but choose not to. Maybe you can't afford them and are jealous of others who can. Maybe you can't afford them and are not in the least jealous of those who can.

But regardless of which of the above categories a person fits into, surely if they are in their right mind they can understand why the production and sale of such products is ridiculous to the point of generating anger, in a world where some people can't afford/access the basic essentials for living?