At least he said I was cute.

26″ Men’s Full Suspension Mountain Bike for Parts

This is a mountain bike as described made by Concord.  My lovely and insufferably cute wife likes to run into/over things with her van, and this bike is no exception.  She only ran over the front tire, the stress of which then bent the front forks at the tips.  I got a new front tire, but I can’t seem to locate a set of forks.  If you can track down a set of forks with about a 165mm neck tube length, you would have a mint bike to go rock hopping or trail riding as there was NO OTHER DAMAGE to the rest of the bike.  Or maybe this bike can be used to fix another.  All of the gears, brakes, etc., are fine.  I can’t bring myself to throw it away because it seems wasteful to toss perfectly good bike parts in the landfill.

First $50 gets it.

At least he said I was cute.

I have never, ever been in a car accident (knock on wood). I do, however, have a history of running over inanimate objects. Ahem.

(Which is, I suppose, better than my sister’s troubled history with innocent animals. As my nephew once said, while in the car with his mom right after she hit a duck, “There goes another one of God’s creatures.” He just shook his head and sighed for all the world like the seasoned witness he was of her tendency to hit the little critters head-on (or squish them in the accordion garage door with the click of a button, whichever it might be). I think he was seven at the time.)

I consider this latest accident of mine as yet another casualty from John’s deployment, since it happened while he was gone. And only because I was pulling his car into the garage — a car I don’t normally drive and a side of the garage I don’t normally drive into.  Does it help my case at all that the weather had just started getting nice and the kids had moved stuff around in the garage trying to get at their scooters? I did not wait to tell my husband what I did but rather got it over with via email. (You know it’s not good when your wife starts out, “Please don’t be mad at me….”)

What’s left of the bike you see above was supposed to be Conner’s, which is why you may notice he looks a little stunted in the bike he’s outgrown in the photo above-above.

It’s been a while since we’ve been in the bike-buying business. We might still get lucky and find a gently used one for Conner at a fair price. As it is, a replacement retails for over $200; fixing the forks (ahem) or otherwise replacing them costs over $100, according to local quotes.  John thought he’d found some forks on e-bay, but they came in the wrong size (the ad was in error) and he had to send them back.

Not just any bike will do, you know. We’re hoping to do even more bike riding once we move to Monterey, both as a family as well as simply a means for Conner to get around on his own. Bike riding is a great suburban pastime and exercise, but it is quite seasonal in Ohio. In this lovely neighborhood (with no sidewalks) we haven’t done nearly enough of it, and I do hope to rectify that considerably after our move to California.

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