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My Favorite Christmas Gift
The Boy Wonder set to work crafting an amazing scale model of various
cycling venues as a Christmas gift to dear old Dad. The following photos depict what a 10 year old can do with several unsupervised hours, cardboard, tape, paint, and a fertile imagination. While I don't anticipate an art scholarship in the boy's future, I have to salute both his ambition, effort, and originality. The love and respect shown in this wonderful gift is just humbling. It was my favorite gift this year, and among my favorite of all time.. The intro. With the promise of more to follow.... http://members.cox.net/medara/Intro_copy.jpg The mountain bike trail. Note the painted piece of hardware on the right. That's the "bike" made from a pegboard tool hanger, paint, and a button. http://members.cox.net/medara/Mountain_track.jpg The BMX course. To appeal to all ages, I guess.. http://members.cox.net/medara/BMX.jpg Last, to cover all the bases, the roadie piece... Though they don't show well in the picture, the fences along the side are designed to replicate the barriers along the last km of Tour de France finish. http://members.cox.net/medara/TDF_finish.jpg Merry Christmas Tom |
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He missed one venue. His tighwad father bitching over a 5 dollar
repair at the bike shop. |
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Scottieski says:
He missed one venue. His tighwad father bitching over a 5 dollar repair at the bike shop. How many times do we have to warn you about dumpster-diving, Scotty? Steve "beam me up...." |
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Stephen Baker wrote:
Scottieski says: He missed one venue. His tighwad father bitching over a 5 dollar repair at the bike shop. How many times do we have to warn you about dumpster-diving, Scotty? Steve "beam me up...." Dumster diving at Home Depot and Lowes has been very profitable for a few people I know. My current Power Washer (Honda 6HP) was a recover. One spark plug and a new spray wand later I now have a $650 washer for $55. One lucky DD has collected an entire set of Ryobi powertools. They ditch them for silly things like frayed wires. I guess it's easier to ditch them than return them to the manufacturer. I never knew anyone to do a dive at a LBS. I would think that most of them run on such low margins they'll make use of every spare screw. -- o-o-o-o Ride-A-Lot o-o-o-o www.schnauzers.ws |
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On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 15:43:37 -0800, tcmedara wrote
(in article K11Ad.61261$Jk5.426@lakeread01): The Boy Wonder set to work crafting an amazing scale model of various cycling venues as a Christmas gift to dear old Dad. The following photos depict what a 10 year old can do with several unsupervised hours, cardboard, tape, paint, and a fertile imagination. While I don't anticipate an art scholarship in the boy's future, I have to salute both his ambition, effort, and originality. The love and respect shown in this wonderful gift is just humbling. It was my favorite gift this year, and among my favorite of all time.. The intro. With the promise of more to follow.... http://members.cox.net/medara/Intro_copy.jpg The mountain bike trail. Note the painted piece of hardware on the right. That's the "bike" made from a pegboard tool hanger, paint, and a button. http://members.cox.net/medara/Mountain_track.jpg The BMX course. To appeal to all ages, I guess.. http://members.cox.net/medara/BMX.jpg Last, to cover all the bases, the roadie piece... Though they don't show well in the picture, the fences along the side are designed to replicate the barriers along the last km of Tour de France finish. http://members.cox.net/medara/TDF_finish.jpg Merry Christmas Tom Nice work. My boy can come up with some of the wildest creations from an old box, miles of tape and what ever from the recycle bin. Santa always gives him a variety of tape , glue and a pair of scissors in his stocking on Christmas. Pauly |
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I never knew anyone to do a dive at a LBS. I would think that most of them run on such low margins they'll make use of every spare screw. I have tried LBS diving and flat out asking them for junk (parts to build whacky bikes, doncha know) to no avail. They throw very little away around here. |
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Actually, I'm going to run my NRS up to the shop after work, and have
them install a new crankset, bb and tires for me. Considering how much I spent on those items, we'll see how much they squuuuuuuuuuueeze out of me for the installation. |
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Ride-A-Lot says:
Dumster diving at Home Depot and Lowes snip Whoooossshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh................. ;-) |
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