Geezer with a Grudge: Classic Craig's List Ad

Jun 2, 2015

Classic Craig's List Ad

A few thousand dollars in mods and almost enough miles to justify a bicycle. Clearly, he "needed" the extra noise and power because . . . ? Either this guy or someone just like him asked this group earlier what kind of price he should be asking. I suggested $2200 with all of the aftermarket crap still in place or $3200 if he returns it to stock. He could either hope to find a sucker/buyer for the box full of junk or give it away as a boobie prize to whoever buys the bike. I guess he thought I wasn't serious.

2 comments:

Unknown said...: Have you noticed the fuel catalyst listed!

Must be a true believer.

Quick, offer to swap the bike for some hand braided cryogenically treated audio cables.; 6/4/15, 4:31 AM
T.W. Day said...: Damn, I just gave all of my cryogenicaly treated audio cables to a needy robot.; 6/4/15, 10:10 AM

The Geezer Story

I stumbled upon this column name (Geezer with a Grudge) almost 20 years ago, in 1999. The first Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly editor I worked with, in late 1999, complained that the magazine was getting no mail and the editors wanted to know if any readers were still out there. I fired off a sarcastic note, as a joke, intended to provide a little humor and some feedback. He published it as an article and later called me to say he'd received more mail on that letter than he'd received in the past year! I followed that with an offer to write a monthly column attempting to piss off a particular section of the magazine's readership to see if that tactic would generate some mail.

It did, probably more regularly than the magazine wanted at times, and I wrote a monthly column for MMM until the magazine died in 2018.

I plan to post an occasional old Geezer article into the blog, followed by short comments about the current status of my perspective on our activity/sport/vehicle of choice.