eBay and Craigslist finds

It amazes me on a daily basis how many fucksticks we get on here thinking they know better, they try and sell single brake single speeds, awful conversions and try and fob it off to us as 'the latest track bike craze that's hitting london from the states' i mean come on have a fucking look around yeah? the names and faces, with pictures of all our rides surely would let you know that we all have a pretty good idea of how to put a bike together, no? or is it just me?

i don't confess to to be the be all and end all of bicycle mechanics but i know enough of what i'm talking about, and when some one on the forum spots some one trying to pull a fast one on the back of fashionable bikes and calls them up on it, they then come on here with a identical user name claiming to be some one else and get all fucking shitty about be rumbled. It's fucking bollocks.

you wouldn't spray a astra red and sell it as a fucking ferrari at a owners club and expect to get away with it would you? so why do you think it will wash on a bike forum?

slack.

My first chance to check this post or respond, so apologies for the delay... and it appears the rage is still there!

Slack, just so we're clear... I didn't come on here to try and sell anything. The bike was advertised on eBay.

I'm pulling a 'fast anything'.

I just came on here to find out why I got an unsolicited and blunt email to my eBay account about the bike.

Seems fair enough... I like that people have greater knowledge and I think it's good if they want to share that, but an email saying something like "NIce looking bike, but just wanted to let you know that I think it might be a converted road frame..." then going on to explain the difference would have been better tha the blunt one I originally got.