For Sale: Bag Full of Learsport jokes

[j_young_80]

Unfortunately one of our squad members has recently got rid of his Learsport, and I find myself left with a bag full of Learsport jokes I can no longer use.

Free to a good home, quality ranges from dry laugh, to thigh slapping hilarity.

[bosworth*]

thread sucks

[James]

Free to a good home.

How can something be for sale if it's free?

Neg Rep.

[anla]

hahaha this thread was worth making even if you got neg rep'd for it

[Driver]

you can substitute 'learsport' for;

Apollo, Huffy, Repco, Scattante, Schwinn, Azzuri

to name a few

[Steven]

Neg rep. Jamie's bike was built by communists.

[j_young_80]

The Basque people are communists? Or the Taiwanese?

[Steven]

Orbea is owned by Mondragon, strictly speaking an anarcho-syndicalist enterprise - not genuine pinko commies.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[j_young_80]

I don't care if it was made by Satan - if it's comfortable and light saddle me up!

[Steven]

Did you remove the sticker that says "All parts falling off this bike are of the finest Basque craftsmanship"?

[dadcram]

Don't the frames come from Taiwan just like the rest of them?

[j_young_80]

The only thing the Spaniards did was paint it and make a shedload of money out of it - as Daz said i'm pretty sure the frame came from the same Carbon factory that all the Giants, Colnagos and Trek's come from and then it was outfitted with the finest Japanese componentry.

[bosworth*]

I always thought orbea's were built by the terrorist organisation ETA.

[Steven]

I'm pretty sure Jamie is a freedom fighter, not a terrorist...

[bosworth*]

That's a matter of perspective.

[Chris]

The only thing the Spaniards did was paint it and make a shedload of money out of it - as Daz said i'm pretty sure the frame came from the same Carbon factory that all the Giants, Colnagos and Trek's come from and then it was outfitted with the finest Japanese componentry.

I have heard that Giant's Taiwanese factories actually make almost of 70% of the worlds bikes. They are a massive third party manufacture for example all Scotts are made by Giant. Trek is of course the other big manufacturer.

Giant's actual bike line is only a small part of what they produce. I wouldn't be surprised to find that 70% of the bike in the bunch are actually made by Giant or Trek. In fact Dan's beautiful Idol and Tor's Ti creation are most probably the only bikes that aren't made in Asia or by Giant.

[tor.lattimore]

My beautiful Ti creation is made in China, but not in the Giant bicycle factory.

[SSSimon]

My Cougar was brazed on an earthenstone open hearth in Yorkshire England.

My Colnagi have the 'made in Italy' sticker on them.

[j_young_80]

That's just the old trick where a Chinese province is renamed "Italy" or "Australia".

[Simonsky]

My Scott's made in Australia! Or at least the 'upgraded' chainstay is, which got repaired after that fateful Cootamundra crash.

It might be apocryphal, but there's a story going around that the Colnago's coming out of Taiwan have better quality control than the one's coming out of Italy. (Though the Italian paint jobs are much nicer.)

And it always crushes me to hear that carbon frames only cost about $300 to make. That's a heck of a lot of 'development' costs thrown in.

[Hoops]

Jamie, have you offloaded the Learsport jokes yet? I'll take them off your hand at the pickle for a coffee if you've still got them.

[j_young_80]

I was hoping I could re-use some of them for Sparky's communist JingJao black Panther at Alleycat - alas the damn thing got mossive respect from me after that ride.