Ebayland
I'm asked pretty often if bike race results and equipment rental is a full time job, and while the answer is yes, it's not one that pays like a full time job. So like a lot of bike racers I do the ebay thing as an income supplement. Of course with auctioneering being the family business, ebay is somewhat familiar territory.
This spring we finally got around to buttoning up the attic so I could move the piles of ebay stuff I had strewn around the house into one spot. The people who owned the house before us added a nice bump out to the attic so there's a ton of room up there, we just needed to reinsulate and clean up a bit. 3 years after moving in... it's done. It's kind of nice to have a space, and it's nice for Mega to have her desk back. And her dining room, and living room, and kitchen....
This is the photo section. Chris Milliman eat your heart out. The sign on the left was from a thrift shop my parents ran in the early 70's- like I said, selling is the family business...
The "on deck" spot. The table buried in all that stuff is the registration table from the first 10 years of the Cycle-Smart International. It's still got the race categories written on it in sharpie. And of course the bottom is stenciled with the original race sponsors name..... Campus Services, UMass....
More storage. Somehow once your friends know you sell stuff online at a reasonable rate boxes of stuff just appear on the porch from time to time. It gets tough when they bring the cool stuff though- like a beautiful IF frame in my size...
Of course we still use the attic for regular storage too. And yeah, we know we're geeks.
This spring we finally got around to buttoning up the attic so I could move the piles of ebay stuff I had strewn around the house into one spot. The people who owned the house before us added a nice bump out to the attic so there's a ton of room up there, we just needed to reinsulate and clean up a bit. 3 years after moving in... it's done. It's kind of nice to have a space, and it's nice for Mega to have her desk back. And her dining room, and living room, and kitchen....
This is the photo section. Chris Milliman eat your heart out. The sign on the left was from a thrift shop my parents ran in the early 70's- like I said, selling is the family business...
The "on deck" spot. The table buried in all that stuff is the registration table from the first 10 years of the Cycle-Smart International. It's still got the race categories written on it in sharpie. And of course the bottom is stenciled with the original race sponsors name..... Campus Services, UMass....
More storage. Somehow once your friends know you sell stuff online at a reasonable rate boxes of stuff just appear on the porch from time to time. It gets tough when they bring the cool stuff though- like a beautiful IF frame in my size...
Of course we still use the attic for regular storage too. And yeah, we know we're geeks.
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