I am 100% behind you on that. I can not count the number of times I have gone through countless boxes looking for that small little part and respond that I have one and never get a thanks anyway I found another, What people do not know is it may take up to an hour to find some of this stuff. What happens is the next poor guy that asks for something looses because I will not go look for them. I just have to remind myself that I do get some great response and have made some distance friends doing it or I would have gotten rid of all the old parts years ago.
>From: Mark Petry <mpetry@bainbridge.net>
>Date: 2008/01/22 Tue PM 11:25:08 CST
>To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>Subject: [CR]thanks for letting me vent
>Now I'm just about to let loose with a full on RANT here - twice in the last
>month I have responded out of selfless goodwill for the sport and the people
>in it and supplied list members not known to me with GOOD PARTS.
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>And got not even a thank you.
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>I had the occaision recently to ride my Off Topic Carbon/Ti parts hanger,
>festooned with black clicky-shifty things on the handlebars, about 15 miles
>up the pike to assist a fellow traveler in distress who needed a Campagnolo
>pedal dust cap, which I installed, for free, on his pedal, to make his world
>complete.
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>Zip. Zilch. Nada. Nothin'.
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>Days later came another piteous bleat out of the darkness "help, where can I
>get a part for my stem, the bars they are a slippin". Whereupon I took pity
>on the poor gentleman, ascertaining thru a process of deductive logic and
>inspired guesswork that he was in possession of a Cinelli 1/R stem, and
>then, executing a virtuoso performance of remote control, virtual reality,
>telepresent least-branch traversal of the domain of possible malfunctions I
>determined that his stem had a stripped wedge nut and would not in fact
>secure the handlebars.
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>I then proceed out to the veritable PILE of twisted, broken, rusty junk in
>my out-building and found a ratty 1/R stem, which I disassembled, extracted,
>and mailed to the aforementioned gentleman at my own expense, the requested
>part, which was delivered today, according to the USPS, the one remaining
>government agency that still provides any services at all, but that's yet
>another rant.
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>And again received not even a thank you!
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>Try buying either of those parts at your local bike shop. I'm not trying
>to blow my own horn here, but courtesy makes the world go round. Fer cryin
>out loud, people. If you post a request on CR, and somebody helps you out,
>well, a note of appreciation is in order, don't you think ? Huh ?
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>Mark Petry
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>mark@petry.org
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>206 618 9642
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>Bainbridge Island, WA in the good old U.S. of A
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