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loose_cog
My name is Matt and I'm a bikeaholic.
I first realized I had a problem when I couldn't get up to piss in the morning without tripping over a crank or knocking over a wheel set.
Like so many bikeaholics I was introduced to bikes at a very young age, I taught myself to ride a bike at around 7 or 8 and the addiction started when I got my first bike, a Raleigh Record at 10 years old. I managed to keep a hold of this addiction having only 1 or 2 bikes (3 max) for most of my life but as is often the case when I stopped smoking a year ago I simply surplanted one addiction with another and now all of my spare money goes on bikes, I've taken to hiding cassettes around the house, I've spent a small fortune on saddles that I like the look of but will never use, my kitchen is being slowly taken over by used tires and inner tubes that I can't bear to throw away even if they are unusable. I realize the severity of my problem but simply can't stop looking at the classifieds and arguing with myself making excuses to buy yet another bike, (perhaps a cyclocross as I used to have a lovely hand built Dan Shotton that I swapped for a guitar and amplifier when I was 16 and although I have a half decent mountain bike I can't help thinking that it would be fun racing around the woods without carrying all the weight of a suspension et al). It's great to find this place and see that I'm not entirely alone. Here pictured are some the most photogenic of my bikes and me at work.........