The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for September 14, 2022

My idea of recyclecling is trash that is disassembled with the individual parts being reused in something totally different.

Brutus, you didn’t take the hint!

The bicycle I use every day was bought second-hand by my father many years before I was born. I am 65 years old and the bike is still efficient, fully functional and does not show its age, even if over the years I have kept it efficient.

That’s a pretty lame pun there, Brutus. (The commenter, not the comic strip character.)

Good one Wilberforce. The older bikes were made in the USA and unless you’re spending $700 you’ll have a hard time finding something better then an old bike bought from Sears or the local hardware store back in the 1960’s. I’m so glad you’re not asking for a video game too. There’s hope for you little man!

I bought a sun usx for my wife several years ago. I only paid $700 for it. Yesterday I was looking for a new shift cable for it and couldn’t believe what they sell for now. $2400!

hopefully you won’t get washed with it. :D

I would love to cycle more, but most of the country is not cyclist or pedestrian friendly. You can get killed out there. In fact, just yesterday in a city near me, an ambulance struck and killed a pedestrian walking on the side of the road.

Clever, Wilbur. A natural use of the word.

Haha…we get kid…we get it!

Good ole Wilberforce, he’s just like Brutus. They are both about as sharp as a bowling ball.

Good kid with a good sense of humor. Got one new bicycle once during my childhood, a sting ray model. All the rest were hand me downs that had never been new from my brothers. That bike is probably a classic, knowing Brutus, like his kid is. My Sting Ray was ultimately stolen…..

My hand me down was me dads 12 gauge Long Tom 36" single barrel shotgun. Got it age 8 and now 76. Still awesome.

nice tri

Just find a store giving away a bike for guessing the number of beans in a jar…

Nothing new. Such was an In Thing for many a generation before some made it mandatory.

My child had a decent Schwinn I had bought her that wasn’t being used. I brought it with me when I moved, a friend totally overhauled it, I found my vertigo made bike riding not a good plan, so I returned the bike to child with a new helmet for her use once she had a place to store it. A few years later, she asked me for her bike. She has no idea what she did with it. Child is communal in thinking. If you have something she wants, you are expected to hand it over. If she has something you want, she will give it to you and rarely will ask for its return, even if it was just bought and cherished. I assume she loaned out the bike and it wasn’t returned.

I’d love to have a vintage Schwinn with coaster brakes. Of course my first one wasn’t vintage .

I have owned two bikes as a kid and four as an adult. My current one is an E-bike because now I need a little help with the hills.

Groan.

Why are Fire Engine’s Red? Because they are always Rushin’.

went for a drive yesterday and in one of the long tunnels along the route we passed a hard-core biker who, as is customary here, was kitted out in all the dark spandex biking apparently requires. he had one tiny flashing red light on his rear wheel. we could barely see him. sure hope he survived the dark four kilometers without getting crushed by one of the many large freight trucks that barrel through…

I was lucky to have a father who had a hardware store where he also sold bikes. Need I say more?

Nice pun, Wilberforce! I liked it.

I wish I could find (or even figure which one to get) a five gear rear sprocket/free wheel for my 1985 Mountaire mountain bike; a local shop wanted $400 to replace everything but the frame and wheels :^(

This one is cute! ❤️