Now that the summer is mostly over, I have a bicycle. I went to the store determined to buy it today. No drawn out 15 days of research to save $50 bullshit. I used to be one of those people that would obsess for weeks on decisions which was such a time waste. Along the same line, I was not going to buy one online, wait forever and then have a box till August when I decided to put it together. Or worse yet put it together and hate it.
I got the bike at Ricks on Allen because I also didn't want to drive to the suburbs on such a nice day. I l know the price is prob a bit hifher but it seemed antithetical to acquiring a bike and honestly they weren't that much above anywhere else when I checked from my phone at the store.
The first one I thought I wanted was a Raleigh route 4.0 19" gold colored bike. It was freakin gold colored and so cute but it was like twice as long as the Raleigh venture 4. The route 4 seemed easier to joy ride for long distance but the venture 4 seemed way better for bumps and stop/start and this is buffalo. Full of stop and go driving and pot holes.
Testing a bike is way worse than test driving a car. With a car terrain is all kinds of similar with a bike it really matters.
In the end I picked the venture 4.0 because you can just run over a curb like nothing and I wanted a bike that will just run over anything and had beefy tires. It also has one of those comfortable prostate sparing, fat seats with the dimple.
That's why I'm laying the ground work this summer to move to Canada. They don't even need to win the White House to destroy things. Just wait in a year or two with a couple of their budgets that will start showing effects.
You really think they will win? I was under the impression they were way to fragmented.
The bar in there never made anyone happy if I remember.
Right now anything dependent on Government Funding is toast, America will soon be the next Greece. I wouldn't invest in anything anywhere that is contingent on Government Funding. The Republicans are going to cut TRILLIONS and they don't care if it's for public transportation or curing cancer. Whey they take the White House next year it will all be over and they will pass a balanced budget amendment and we will only spend what we take in at reduced tax rates.
Welcome to Dystopia...
Here is my take why they went for so little... It sounds like 4 of the buildings where bought by the company that owns one of them.... If that building was not an end building then that drops the value a lot.... Lets say I want to do something with them that is like a different use that or second last or something like that puts a monkey wrench into it.... But what I'm guessing is it was more like we have no money lets sell it on the cheap and oh bye the way we know you so lets make a deal...... Of course you read the entire story as I didn't so you may have more details on it then I.... Also that entire UB thing and Medical campus thing may have been still up in the air when a deal was made.... When you need money sometimes you don't have the time to get what you could value wise ..... My other thing I suspect is that this isn't much more than a name change type of deal where one group buys out another group and yet the some of the same people run it or own it.....
I just emailed this to my brother. I am sure he will have his standard reply.