weekly dump - prt 1 deus

so miss raleigh has left the building.
sad day but very bizarre small world coincidence.
i was having issues pronouncing the buyers name. my english is, well, below average on a good day but i was 100% sure from emails that it was a guy. he said he would come to pick the bike up on friday afternoon. he rang around midday, asked if he could pick it up then. for me that worked out better, his question was "are the tires full of air, or say, can i ride the bike now?"

i was my usual yeah mate no worries, responce. got the bike out of the car, attached the front wheel etc. took it up to the front of the building where piero was waiting talking on the phone. after he hung up he commented on how cheap the bike was, and how mad the price of the ladies bikes had been. then went on to discuss the quality of miss raleigh.
at this stage i still had no idea who he was.
i explained to him how i felt lucy was kinda "fudging" the prices of the bikes and also that i had brought tarini of her, and said she was a really nice lady, and explained how i had turned the tarini into a fixed gear.
he laughed,
piero is one of the mechanics that builds the bikes for deus-ex-machina (pictured above in thefixer.pdf)
we had a really good chat about a few things, fixies, fixed.org.au and he was a bit taken back that it was me who had costed up one of the builds in defence of their prices for showroom sold bikes.
enough on that but it was really nice to feel special for once, i had sold deus one of my bikes...