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Also, on my ride, I passed a man on one of these...
https://bmxmuseum.com/bikes/emme…
Might not have been the same year but it was a gold Rodeo. From a distance it looked mint. I thought it was some kind of flatland frame and I'm not good with flatland bmx knowledge.
So I went over and said what a cool bike it was. Up close, it was a huge mess. The original gold and clearcoat were all eaten away at the edges. The tires were a hundred years old and shot to shit, but they had been hand painted as whitewalls using, I guess, a stray dog as a paint brush.
But it would have been a great bike to restore.
What a load of shit the owner started telling me though, instantly.
He'd built it himself in Sudan. It was covered in real gold. Inside the shitty one piece crank, where I couldn't see it of course, he had remade "all of the rings and gears" out of solid gold.
He rides it everyday to Eastbourne (fucking miles away. An hour by car if there's no traffic) and he sets off the same time as the bus but he's always drinking coffee by the time the bus pulls in.
Literally just saying "nice bike" triggered an endless cascade of fantastical nonsense that absolutely nobody would ever be able to believe.
I smiled, said goodbye, and rode away.
It makes me sad that people talk utter bollocks. We could have had a nice chat. I could have fixed that piece of shit for him. It would be a great bike to restore and make good.
Oh well.