Rat Rod
Owner & Founder
I get an email from a friend of ours and she tells me that her folks are moving to Reno and they have a couple of old Trek bikes that they don't want to take with them and I could have them if I wanted them.
They left them in the shed and left the shed unlocked so I could go over any time to get them. They had already moved out so there wasn't anyone in the house anymore.
So yesterday on my lunch break I head over to the house to pick up the bikes and all the while I'm thinking, what if the neighbors call the cops on me. :lol:
I get there and park and head to the back yard. I pull the bikes out of the shed and notice that there's an extra wheel set so I grab those too. I was in the backyard about 5 minutes and headed out to the car to load the bikes up on my rack. I get them all loaded up and get in my car and BAM!...stinking parking ticket on my windshield...ha ha! :lol:
I look around and there's not a soul in site. It's a residential neighborhood and on a quiet street. What I had done was park facing the wrong direction on that side of the street. I did it because there were no driveways on the street and figured I'd be there 5 minutes so what the heck. This had to be the stealthiest parking patrol officer on the force. Either that or the neighbors are hired to give out parking tickets. :lol:
So the two free Treks turned into $45 Treks...which still was worth the deal.
I got them home and cleaned up the larger of the two bikes, fully intending to list them on the CL today and then I made the mistake of riding the bike. :? It rode super nice and fit me perfectly so I think I may have some fun tinkering around with it and keeping it as my "exercise bike."
They left them in the shed and left the shed unlocked so I could go over any time to get them. They had already moved out so there wasn't anyone in the house anymore.
So yesterday on my lunch break I head over to the house to pick up the bikes and all the while I'm thinking, what if the neighbors call the cops on me. :lol:
I get there and park and head to the back yard. I pull the bikes out of the shed and notice that there's an extra wheel set so I grab those too. I was in the backyard about 5 minutes and headed out to the car to load the bikes up on my rack. I get them all loaded up and get in my car and BAM!...stinking parking ticket on my windshield...ha ha! :lol:
I look around and there's not a soul in site. It's a residential neighborhood and on a quiet street. What I had done was park facing the wrong direction on that side of the street. I did it because there were no driveways on the street and figured I'd be there 5 minutes so what the heck. This had to be the stealthiest parking patrol officer on the force. Either that or the neighbors are hired to give out parking tickets. :lol:
So the two free Treks turned into $45 Treks...which still was worth the deal.
I got them home and cleaned up the larger of the two bikes, fully intending to list them on the CL today and then I made the mistake of riding the bike. :? It rode super nice and fit me perfectly so I think I may have some fun tinkering around with it and keeping it as my "exercise bike."
