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There's no limit to how much rich people will pay for tasteless customisation of something which was already hyper-expensive. All those megayachts with bar stools upholstered with whale foreskin. I used to know a trader who spent 20k on a custom dining room table but refused to help his mother when she was facing eviction because she couldn't pay her rent. A few years after that he was in all the papers for standing on the breasts of a female employee in the dealing room.
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don't understand how people find worth in something they have invested only money in
Dunno man. I had a well paid job once. Bought some cool shit. Didn’t mind it at all.
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god I sound like a miserable cunt
Welcome home, friend.
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collect and restore classic bikes
If people didn't find worth in something they have invested only money in, you'd have nothing to collect and restore.
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I guess I'm from the polar opposite end of the bike spectrum- collect and restore classic bikes
Putting together a new custom bike is as much a personal curatorial investment as restoring an old one. You're only the polar opposite on the temporal scale, in all other respects you are the same.
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@nick_h. TBH I didn't even look at the bike I just thought the whole story was a bit grotesque
I guess I'm from the polar opposite end of the bike spectrum- collect and restore classic bikes and recycle old ones for charity, don't understand how people find worth in something they have invested only money in
god I sound like a miserable cunt
Conversely I have respect for the skill that goes into building a bike by hand and I guess someone has to buy them