Concise, amusing Craigslist rant about building "cafe racers" from vintage bikes

Not mine, only something I found.

http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/mcy/5954662792.html

Here's the text, in case it's removed:

Hey all you idiots who cut up their vintage bikes and call them cafe racers. Stop it.
Just since you went to harbor freight tools and bought a torch and a $99 welder it does not make you a fabricator. You are destroying classic bikes. Stop it stupid people.
Then you try to sell them for ridiculous $ and wonder why nobody wants them.
Why are you so damn stupid.

 

cuz they missed the hype 3 years ago when the hipster was a generally unknown species. now? the next thing is already in the making.
but yeah, too many bikes were cut up for those nice angle-grinder videos:

http://hipsterbikevideos.com/

 

and these pics about sum it up:

 

Harbor freight special

 

Dude has 5 wrenches but feels like he needs a micrometer.

The rest, I just can't...

 

Try being 25 and really liking vintage racing... I get the whole.... "you build cafe bikes right?"

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Poor kid!

 

well at least he can find his tools . 17 yr old thinks she is a mech.tools come and go regularily.

 

vintage racing is something different than chopping up bikes fro posing i think.