Does anyone else have a friend who does this??
They find a complete bike and buy it, then began to profess as to how amazing it rides. It's the best bike they've ever ridden. Then for a few months talk about how it is far superior to anything else on the road in every way, etc. Then a few months after that it has a straight handlebar with thumb shifters, deep dish modern rims etc, and they shut up about it for a while. Then the next thing you know, the bare frame is on craigslist, sold or traded to another mutual friend. Buy love destroy, is the name I have come up with for this syndrome. Remember my perfect chrome Voyageur 11.8. It happened to that bike, and it makes me both mad and sad, that he can't just leave something alone and pass it on when he's tired of it.
I am trying to stop this from happening to a certain white paint over chrome fuji model.. I am afraid it will get stripped to bare chrome and flat barred, unless I do something.,,,,BD