Great Now I'm Crazy Too, or: Taking Small Action

WaterBearer

Pop's link today from safehaven.com prompted me to do something I've been thinking about lately.

On my lunch break I bought a Mountain Bike. A Schwinn.

I don't know anything about bikes. In fact my selection criteria--thanks in large part to the idiocy of the employees at the store--was more or less: "I'm going to buy the most expensive one because it will most likely be the best". Who said the growth model was inherently flawed? j/k

Next thing you know I'm thinking about extra tires, buying a decent lock, getting an air pump, maybe stockpiling some innertubes, getting a helmet (if I can find one to match the red/black frame of the bike).

In reality I have no idea what the best bike would have been to get. I think I would have liked something more road-friendly, but if we'll be turning back to agricultural lifestyles I thought the versatility was more valuable.

Plus I just quit smoking and am already a nervous wreck (the decision to quit was only marginally influenced by peak-oil or impending economic collapse) so I'm apt to do silly things like SAYING I'm thinking about a bike and then the next thing you know there I am having already bought it.

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MattSavinar · Elite Joined: May 09, 2004 Posts: 1990

I read the Safe Haven passage a few days ago and became quite anxiety ridden.

Couple that with the fact we just sent out 7 carrier fleets on a "training mission" along with the unrest in Saudi Arabia, along with the fact our leaders will be "out of town" later this month, and well- you can see why I had to have a drink the other night.

Matt

Pops · Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 1:25 pm Post subject:

Hang in with the butts!

Wallyworld has solid foam innertubes, they weigh more but never go flat; perfect thing for a BOB (Bug Out Bike, lol)

Here is my new saying; "Money is only as good as the person who has what you want says it is."
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WaterBearer · Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 2:03 pm Post subject:

I like that, Pops. I like that a lot.

Edit: I'm holding fast on the cigarettes, haven't had one since I quit a 5:00 pm central standard time May 31st. I'm considering it an object lesson in cutting dependency on foreign resources. <grin>

I saw a refernece to a BOB on another thread. Glad to know what it is now. Does the "Bug Out" refer to the desparation involved in its purchase, or am I missing the joke? Is the foam innertube really a good investment? Also, am I wise to keep using the factory tires, which are kinda the bicycle version of kleats?

Seriously, I don't want to touch the tires while they spin because they have so many graboids they may just pull a finger off or something.

Matt: where did you get that information on 'training missions' and our leaders being 'away' at the end of the month? Also, where are you located?

For that matter, is anyone else on this board in or around Kansas City, Missouri? Presently I am as urban as they come... in fact my loft is often described as the left ventricle of the United States of America, given its geographic location and my decidedly pacemaker-like character traits, such as going through the doorway at regular intervals. Smile

Pops · Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 2:19 pm Post subject:

Actually BOB is survivalist jargon for Bug Out Bag. “Bug Out” referring to needing to leave the area quickly in the event of a serious downturn in one’s prospect of living long enough to die from lung cancer

The tubes were $20 a piece a couple years ago and I ride over goat-heads all the time with nary a problem.

I hope to be living in the southern part of MO within a couple of months.
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WaterBearer · Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 2:25 pm Post subject:

The bike was purchased somewhat with the intention of making it to Southern MO if I had no other way to get there. My grandparents have a farm in Butler, Missouri that I could easily bike to; I don't think it's really far enough away from mass population to be ultimately safe, but it's a farm and a community and there's plenty of family. I'd rather move to Amsterdam if I could but all I can afford is this Schwinn. Smile

I wonder how much more the foam tires cost...

MattSavinar · Elite Joined: May 09, 2004 Posts: 1990

Water Bearer:

Urbansurvival.com

The 7 carrier fleet piece has been all over various reputable news sources - George has them all linked up on urbansurvival, but I don't have the exact link.

In my newsletter - which will be posted tomorrow - I will have an article about "something big is brewing."

Matt

WaterBearer · Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 2:45 pm Post subject:

Can't wait for the newsletter. Anything to help figure out when's the right time to start buying gold!

Pops · Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 2:47 pm Post subject:

Look for Exercises "Blinding Storm" & "Aurora" on http://www.urbansurvival.com/week.htm

Beware this George Ure is at least as pessimistic as Matt; if I were in a room with the 2 of them for an hour I just wouldn’t care anymore. My credit card company might, but I wouldn’t.
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Pops · Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 2:59 pm Post subject:

Here is a somewhat less dire report from AP:

http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/apmethods/apstory?urlfeed=D82SAKN80.xml

I could post links that would make you start arming that BOB for all-out war right there in KC in about 4 weeks, but I'll refrain, lol

The Internet sure is interesting.
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WaterBearer · Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 3:45 pm Post subject:

Thanks, pop. The sun is setting incorrectly?? There are 3 comets coming to hit us THIS MONTH? Too scary to be real is how I want to see that website.

Pops · Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 3:50 pm Post subject:

LOL

I told you!

That's the tip of the Internet Doomsday iceberg...

Don't even get me started on icebergs!

Bwahahahahaha!

Wink

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Barbara · Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 3:56 pm Post subject:

A Schwinn!
You know, we don't have Schwinns here, but I remember that name from a Stephen King tale. There was this boy, the hero of the tale, always biking around and saying to his Schwinn:
"Goooo Silver!"

Silver is a good name. Best wishes to you!

Aaron · Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 3:59 pm Post subject: Gee Thanks

Well crap...

Great...

At least now we can burn all the oil we want & not feel guility.
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Pops · Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 4:01 pm Post subject:

Silver was the Lone Rangers horse.

American boys used to look up to Cowboys.
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