Orc's GTFOOD sale

UPDATED (more tires, pile of lights & hubs)

Even if the non-fascists manage to hold onto the White House the fash/bigot/misogynist percent of the electorate has reached the point where I am no longer feeling safe living in even one of the few sane parts of the american imperium, so rather than just abandon all of my bike mess I’m going to start selling it off.

I am very much in a make-me-an-offer mood; I’ll tell you what I paid for them (unless I don’t remember or they’re old enough to be worthless) but this is likely to be an everything must go sale because I suspect I’m going to be showing up at some other country’s border asking for asylum in the next year or so and none of this shit will be coming with me.

I have a huge pile of 650b rims:

  • 2x Pacenti SL23s in black (650b×32h): I paid $140
  • 2x Pacenti Brevets (650b×28h): I paid $120
  • 2x Pacenti Brevets (650b×32h): " "
  • 2x Pacenti Brevets (650b×36h): " "
  • 2x Velocity A23s in shiny silver (650b×32h): " "
  • 2x unmarked roughly A23-shaped rims (disc only), also shiny silver (650b×32h): ???
  • 2x unmarket less roughly A23-shaped rims (disc only), black (650b×28h): ???
  • 2x DT Swiss R470s, black (700c×32h): I paid ~$90
  • 2x Velocity Twin Hollows, “silver” (700cx36h): They were on sale at Rivendell about 15 years ago, and are currently worth approximately $0. Pay for shipping or visit me and take them off my hands.

To go along with this festival of rims I’ve got some economy & non-economy tires:

  • 4 col de la vies in their full thousands of little feet glory: I think I paid $20/each for them.
  • 4 Specialized Sawtooth tire-shaped objects (tubeless, heavy as hell, 650b×47): I paid $10/each fo them.
  • 2 Schwalbe Pro Ones, tubeless, 650b×28: They were a gift; maybe worth $70/each new?

… A few hubs:

  • Ultegra 6800 rear hub (skewered, 32h, non-disc): worth approximately $0, take it for shipping.
  • White rear CLD (purple, 32h, 12mm T-A, absolutely new in box): I think I paid $350 for it?
  • S700 dynohub (black, 36h, skewer, centerlock): ???
  • UR705 dynohub (black, 32h, 12mm T-A, centerlock): I paid $95
  • S701 dynohub (black,32h,skewer,centerlock): I think I paid $60

…Some lights:

  • 2x B&M Secula+: ???
  • B&M Seculite: ???
  • B&M Seculite+: ???
  • 2x ebay-special 30(ish) lux dyno headlights: I paid $20/each for them.

And finally some odds and ends:

  • a purple Specialized stem (10cm, 9/8ths steertube, 27.2 bar clamp): ???
  • a Berthoud Galibier in cork, with about 2000 miles on it: It was a gift, but as estrogen worked its magic on my system it became progressively less comfortable and I don’t use it anymore. Berthoud sells them for €223.04 as of about 10 minutes ago.
  • A pair of SKS Blumels, in 60mm wide × 26" radius. These are at least 10 years old, but never percolated up to the top of my bike mess so are still in packaging: ???
  • a Praxisworks crankset (black, GXP-diameter spindle, 172.5 arms, 110×5 bcd, no chainwheels, no bottom bracket): A gift so your guess at a price is as good as mine.
  • a set of Magura HS-33 or HS-22 or HS-11 hydraulic rim brakes, flat bar levers, and tubing (assembled, probably needs a refill): I think I paid $100 for the set?

These things are all FOB Chateau Chaos (so if you’re in PDX or can get a PDXer to pick them up I won’t charge for shipping)

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Move to NYC, we would keep the rest of the country away by force if they weren’t scared to step foot here already.

An acquaintance of mine made this film one time So Pretty (2019) - IMDb

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I think I’d need to see nys secede from the union before i’d be convinced (and in any case I still need to dump my bike mess)

I keep re writing a note to say I hope you’re okay and deleting it. I hope you’re ok

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Thank you for asking.

No, I’m really not. I have been incandescent with rage since I woke up this morning (made even more fun when I got a jury summons for a “special trial” right in the middle of my preparation for bug-out window) and when that rage collapses I don’t know what’s going to happen.

I have a distinct “german jew in 1933” feeling right now, and it’s super unpleasant.

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So sorry. I know it’s nothing but we’re here

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Someone at paceline looking for those brevets. The Paceline Forum

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i just saw this, as i have been trying to avoid the “have more things” section of the site.

i can’t imagine how you feel (though some of your feels about how we got here are significantly present in my mind as well.) i feel pretty apoplectic with having a 6 year old daughter who will be close to old enough to carry a child with zero guard rails sooner than i am prepared for.

happy to be a person to chat with via dm or text (number available via dm) if you’d like. no expectation just putting it out there