Please Don't Touch

[Krakatoa]

you must be a child of the 50's! we all had these values when I grew up then. somewhere about the time of the 'summer of love'-it began to fall apart.

Gee thanks man I was born in July 1967 LOL!

 

[Jay81]

We have a local "Bicycle Night" at at bar, sponsored by a local bike shop every Tuesday night, spring through fall. (I have a thread about it in the Events forum if anyone is interested)
We get a little bit of everything, ranging from bikes like the ones in my signature line, to modern day bikes, everyone is welcome.
With the bikes that I bring, I get a lot of questions. So I made up signs to display with each of my bikes, explaining when it's from, what it is, and some of the features. I put at the bottom "Please look but do not touch. Thank you" and wouldn't you know, some people just can't keep their hands off.
Now, they're not doing anything that's going to hurt the bike, but it's the principle of it. Have some respect.
I no longer collect what I consider "entry level" bikes, and while their not "high end" either, I have decent money invested in them. I enjoy bringing them out for people to see, and they enjoy seeing them. Just gets annoying sometimes when they just gotta touch the bike.

I was born in '81 and was brought up to leave other peoples stuff alone. Used to go to car shows with my dad when I was a kid and I knew better than to go around touching the cars. I am raising my kids the same way, I can take them to car shows and bike events and they know better than to touch other peoples stuff.

 

[videoranger]

Good sign say "You toucha my bike I breaka you face."

 

[mr.cycleplane]

Gee thanks man I was born in July 1967 LOL!

wow! in 1967 I was 'coming of age' and probably thinking about 'touching' girls!

 

[Sevenhills1952]

Maybe the best solution is to simply cough and sneeze, saying "I knew I shouldn't be here with the flu, Doc says I may have pneumonia too (cough/hack)...any questions 'bout my bike (sneeze)". [emoji16]

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[mr.cycleplane]

I think I had a couple of people with a nasty cold touch my parts at the last bike meet....felt like abandoning them there at the end of the meet.

 

[Mr. Monkeyarms]

I think I had a couple of 'sickies' touch my parts at the last bike meet....felt like abandoning them there at the end of the meet.

Ooooh, you mean someone with a COLD touching your BIKE parts. I totally misunderstood this the first time I read it. Lol! Sorry.

 

[catfish]

At a show years ago a guy came up to my friends twin 40 and started squeezing the lens...

I was just about to post about this. I'll never forget it.

 

[Pedals Past]

delt with people ringing the bell, squeezing the brake handle over and over like they need reinsurance that it really works and just plain touching everything with there hands after eatting junk that is still on there hands be sides on the front of there shirt, what part of Please Dont Touch That You Can't Understand? if I fondled your girlfriend that way would that be ok with you? some of these small local shows are more trouble than there worth, there not here for the vintage original or expensive restoration, but food. the crappy vendor food, and to let their kids run around like it's a out door play ground unattended drives me nuts, but the adults are just as bad and I've been asked to leave because of my mouth, yeah ok it's true I did lose it when I looked over and a mom had put her very young child on the seat of my bike for a photo and not asking plus the the child had a wet bottom because of pee because the parent was to busy stuffing her face to attend to her child, or take her to a restroom because of eatting non stop that F#$! greasy vender food, yeah I lost it alright when I saw my leather seat having a wet spot and it wasn't a small spot either, I walked my bike home that day fuming, as for my remarks about that idiot's girlfriend, it put an end to my invatation to comming back.......that's ok, im just happy to ride around and enjoy the day with a dry seat......

Scott Allison wears gloves ..... I ve always wondered why ..... maybe the spot on your seat got there the same way the blood stains got on my pool table cover? now a friend of mine plays pool at my house with latex gloves ........ if the spot on the seat was on a girls and red does it make it more valuable? never leave your stuff to be watched by someone else ...... once i watched a guy steal a strawberry reflector off a seat when no one was at the booth i told him to hand it over ..... he tried to tell me he wanted to look at the back of it ...... in his pocket? I waited for the guy to return and told him he might want to keep this in his pocket instead until someone buys it......

 

[redline1968]

I’m guilty on my own stuff..I touched the hood ornament on a 70 year old toy and broke it... I was sick learned a lesson..lol