New Member from California

[mxjosh]

Yes I went a little overboard with the purchases. When I see people who have been using the same ball for 10yrs it drives me nuts haha. I like new stuff. My bike passion was probably worse as there is far more to buy.

Im in San Jose area btw. Sacramento a couple hours away.

[Bonebrake]

My ball is 15 years old lol I actually just bought a new one Thursday and I cant believe I waited so long I bowled the best I have in years lol

[mxjosh]

15 yrs! wow.

[noeymc]

welcome

[Bonebrake]

Well the ball doesnt have 15 years of active use lol i stopped bowling for about 10 of those years

[mxjosh]

ah ok. I was gonna say the ball must have enuff oil for a day of frying up Mcdonalds fries.

[AngryBowler]

My family would have a fit if I bought 21 balls! I get enough grief for the three that I have (I started 3-4 weeks ago). I plan on buying one more in the next month or two. If you have that much bowling gear, how many bikes do you have?

[mxjosh]

3 dirtbikes and 1 street bike.

My wife has been supportive most of the time. I usually have a very good reason when presenting the "I need another ball honey" talk

[Bunny]

Ah yes. It's called Aquisition Syndrome. It's really bad with guitars (GAS!) I've had with quads and accessories. To my credit I started out with a Blaster and put my *** time in on it for two years before I moved up to my Raptor 700!

Hubby went through the VW aquisition syndrome. Started out with a beat up vert. He got tired of polishing the polish so he got a Westy that was supposed to be a weekend camper. It turned into a full resto. Then he built a baja. We went to far too many Pomona swapmeets at zero dark thirty to wait in line for some original VW part that was caked in bird poop. Crazy!

Now it's bowling balls and all the goodies, new shoes, new bag, powders, tapes, brushes, cleaners, etc. Got the Storm Synch is in my sights (need a heavy oil ball! Really!!) I'm hooked!

[TCJ]

I've had something like twelve bowling balls in the past fifteen years of bowling. You've almost doubled that number in 1/10 the number of years! Even though I have some newer equipment, I don't like to retire anything I own, so it all gets pulled out some time or the other. Right now I'm frequently using a ~27 year old ball.