hack

meh...just race bikes

shovelhd

The Zaffiros will be fine, just not super fast. Air them down a bit to add grip and you'll be fine.

shovelhd

You have an interesting writing style. Good luck and stay upright.

bmcphx

hey man, my name isn't Jack.

I wish you good luck on Sunday, my first race was Avondale as well, and I was nervous as hell for the months leading up to it and I fully understand if you are as well, but your blog post is definitely... awkward. I read some of it as nervousness and other parts of it as narcissism.

wens

I will pay anyone who invents software to automatically replace homonyms with the correct wordy. Pet peeve, and unfortunately spell check is useless for that.

spdntrxi

this is what I am doing.. it's nice to make a smaller payment around tax and xmas...I pay extra the other times.

lvtcycling

Hey John,

I know your name isn't Jack I actually follow your cycling locally...(not in a weird way). I know my writing is very unorthodox and all over the place and when I go back and read it it is "lol". I took a little personally because I am very nervous and Just really didn't expect the first "critic" to be someone I know of. It's all good I apologize for the overreaction and good luck to you as well.

bmcphx

I see humor in all things. Digging up my frantic worrying posts from 2012 before my first race will not be lol worthy, more like lmfao worthy.

mike868y

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revchuck 

A related pet peeve of mine is editors who run their writers' articles through spell check and call it good if nothing lights up. One would hope that the editor would take the time to actually read the material s/he's paid to edit.

spectastic

I finished building my dream bike - in fact the exact same frame as the one in the pic, except mine's sexier with 11 speed ultegra and has bottle cages...


but now I realized there's no way in hell I would take this to a crit. It's a trophy, not a racing bike. sucks, but I think I'm selling it and getting a caad or a cervelo...


wait when did campy come out with electronics? damn I'm behind

bmcphx

Editors do weird things. A magazine guy straight up argued with me when I told him a word that wasn't a proper noun or part of a title should be lower case. He insisted that every word in the ad should be capitalized.

Understanding the basics of the English language is harder for some, but I like to believe that we are all doing the best we can. I know I make my share of mistakes as well.

big john

Actually I upgraded in April. I sold my 86 S-Blazer with 285K on the odo and bought an 05 Trailblazer with only 114K.

George

Great news John, I was hoping for 150k, but the way it looks Ill probably go longer. Thanks.

Ygduf

riding, then driving, now here?

tetonrider

everyone knows that "at no cost" just means one is paying off that value of the term of the loan, right? just checking.

brokers don't mind because they make their fee (2x in this case); lenders don't mind, either.

(just responding to cleave's post but this seems to have come up in several posts.)

spectastic

nah, I'll just race with it.

BAM


now to muster enough balls to cut the seat tube

gsteinb

the only reason I wouldn't race my dream bike, is I couldn't afford to buy…thus, dream bike.

bmcphx

You've never lived the dream?

caloso

Advertise here.

gsteinb

you don't dream big enough I guess.

shovelhd

Keep hoping. My son is a freelance journalist. They hack his stuff to pieces at times, sometimes for space, sometimes to align content. The last article I read must have been for space, because the first paragraph was full of holes and bad grammar and basically made no sense. The rest was great. Hopefully readers got that far.

big john

We have a few customers with 300K on their cars, lots with over 200K. Part of it is luck, for sure, because we also see low mileage cars needing an engine, too.

In my case I almost completely stopped maintaining the Blazer for the last several years I had it, (had the thing for almost 18 years), and it refused to die. I sold it to a ranch hand near here so I see him driving it weekly.

big john

I don't dream about stuff, cars, bikes, etc. If I was given the choice I don't know what bike I would get. Maybe I could get a job at a bike magazine so I could try all kinds of stuff. Maybe go custom to deal with my odd fit issues.
Parts, I don't care. Ultegra works great, as does Campagnolo. Have Sram on a mtb, it's fine but I never tried it on a road bike.
Cars? I could live in a world without cars and be happy to never see another one of those god damned things.

gsteinb

it was kinda in jest.

I couldn't give less of a **** about stuff. it all breaks at roughly the same rate, so the idea of paying a premium for something special to only fret it might fulfill its destiny (to break) is an exercise in misery.

race what you got, it's better than what merckx had