During a busy round of ebay searching and bidding this morning, I noticed that my feedback counter had rolled over into triple digits. 100 feedbacks. Then almost immediately, 101. So I guess I can no longer claim to be a casual e-bayer. And over 90% of these feedbacks are for buying bicycle items.
Of course I'm small potatoes compared to many list members, who are up into 4 digits. But it's time to admit that this bike thing is no longer a casual hobby. Hobby still, but not casual.
I looked at my profile. How appropriate that the item that rolled me over is a pair of Detto Pietro cycling shoes. Lucious black perforated leather with no shrieking, discordant colored patches, not Look, SPD or Time compatible, and no sissy premounted cleats. I'll have to find my pair of TA Anquitel short shank metal cleats (feedback # 35 or so), then find an old Italian cobbler to put them on. I had one of those back in Detroit in the long ago days when I started cycling and needed cleats nailed onto my dutch Medalist shoes. He got excited when he saw the shoes, and told me he had watched Coppi and Bartali dueling in the Giro back when he was a wee lad in the old country. Callow youth that I was, I didn't know what the heck he was gabbing about.
Should I be concerned? Am I out of control? Is this all good for me? Who cares! There's a new bike to put together and the Monson swap meet to prep for. Come on up, and see what I've bought! I think I've still got most of it. And you can buy it from me, so I can go back and buy more stuff!
Tom (it beats drugs or gambling) Adams, Shrewsbury NJ
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