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Old 10-18-04, 12:48 PM
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Originally Posted by daneil
I don't know. I wouldn't switch to single ply for anything.
Eh. You get used to it. After awhile the regular two-ply seems to soft to do the job.

Anyway, earlier this year I got behind some soft-fleshed h.s. kid on a gas-powered scooter. I drafted him for a bit, then swung around and pulled up even, and said "Is that as fast as that thing goes?" His eyes got really big and for a minute I thought he was going to swerve into me and crash.

Oops! That would have been embarrassing but I really wanted to challenge him to a race. The problem with racing a scooter is that you can't make them physically suffer before riding them off your wheel.

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