It’s just a personal rant, but cheers. I edited out a paragraph about public good. You know like wealthy folks in renaissance Italy demonstrating their means by building huge public spaces, or in current day by buying the naming rights to hospital emergency rooms.
If you’re going to spend that kind of money on a bike/car at least make it interesting for the rest of us to look at! Hahahaha.
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I actually think it would be sweet if all the proper big-brand luxury stuff should operate on the buy-one-give-one program. Your $600 S-Works Recon shoes with aluminum BOA adjuster faces include a pair of ~$100 Recon 1.0 shoes that get donated to the local get-kids-on-bikes program (funded by $50 from every bike over 5K / $100 from every bike over 10K or whatever).
But then I’m also for taxing profits on real estate transactions to fund free public transit, and invest more in parks, schools, and hospitals, so I might be some kind of socialist.
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And yeah, eeWings are a little dream luxury of mine I can’t begin to justify when Aeffect R cranks are so good for so long for so much less (and it’s all made overseas so no MNA justification bump). The Agave finish just adds some flare but even the stick Ti is timeless.
July 11, 2022, 7:55 a.m. - Andrew Major
It’s just a personal rant, but cheers. I edited out a paragraph about public good. You know like wealthy folks in renaissance Italy demonstrating their means by building huge public spaces, or in current day by buying the naming rights to hospital emergency rooms. If you’re going to spend that kind of money on a bike/car at least make it interesting for the rest of us to look at! Hahahaha. ——— I actually think it would be sweet if all the proper big-brand luxury stuff should operate on the buy-one-give-one program. Your $600 S-Works Recon shoes with aluminum BOA adjuster faces include a pair of ~$100 Recon 1.0 shoes that get donated to the local get-kids-on-bikes program (funded by $50 from every bike over 5K / $100 from every bike over 10K or whatever). But then I’m also for taxing profits on real estate transactions to fund free public transit, and invest more in parks, schools, and hospitals, so I might be some kind of socialist. ——— And yeah, eeWings are a little dream luxury of mine I can’t begin to justify when Aeffect R cranks are so good for so long for so much less (and it’s all made overseas so no MNA justification bump). The Agave finish just adds some flare but even the stick Ti is timeless.