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Old 09-04-15, 03:05 PM
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On my ride one morning jerry garcia rode past me semi srs
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Originally Posted by RIP Chainrings
On my ride one morning jerry garcia rode past me semi srs
If you were getting passed by Jerry Garcia, I think it's time for a bent and a pipe.....
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Originally Posted by Stucky
If you were getting passed by Jerry Garcia, I think it's time for a bent and a pipe.....
Yeha not without a powertap he won't. Other lane bro
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Originally Posted by bakes1
Lmao
As opposed to the rampant doping that has been a part of professional cycling since forever?
Illegal and cheating. Nice!
So the singular Keith Moon incident is equivalent to the hundreds or thousands of recreational biker collisions/crashes reported each year how?
Next...
Hey, at least the dope enhances the biker's performance...it doesn't make them sit around in a lobotomized state contemplating the color mauve and writing incoherent songs......
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Originally Posted by Stucky
Hey, at least the dope enhances the biker's performance...it doesn't make them sit around in a lobotomized state contemplating the color mauve and writing incoherent songs......
Wow
You really aren't a rock fan or knowledgeable about music in general are you?
Musicians of all ages and styles have used booze and drugs to inspire them to write and perform for hundreds of years. Dating back to classical music pre 1800's
It's all cool though.
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Originally Posted by FRANK CANNON
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Originally Posted by bakes1
Maybe it is just me but I see a lot of GD avatars and a lot of GD references in posts.
More so than any other band imo.
Is this a Zen thing?
Good a thread as there could be for my first post! I think it's all in your head….
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Dirt Rag published the chapter in my book about the day in 1971 when I met Gary Fisher. All the action took place at the Grateful Dead office in San Rafael. Money quote was when Gary and I and Marmaduke, the singer in the New Riders, told Garcia we were going for a bike ride. Garcia said, "You won't run into ME out there!"
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Old 09-05-15, 12:06 PM
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Originally Posted by bakes1
True but the Stones and the Who and Led Zep have also been around forever along with lots of other great bands and I just don't see anywhere near the same representation on these forums
I think there's something to it and that bicycling and the Dead just go together.
Pretty cool imo.
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I suspect both those guys would test + for PEDs.
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Originally Posted by JanMM
I suspect both those guys would test + for PEDs.
I'd bet they'd test positive for Pez!
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Originally Posted by Stucky
Hey, at least the dope enhances the biker's performance...it doesn't make them sit around in a lobotomized state contemplating the color mauve and writing incoherent songs......
Lol.

"You have no idea what the Tour de France is", Henri said. "It's a Calvary. Worse than that, because the road to the Cross has only 14 stations and ours has 15. We suffer from the start to the end. You want to know how we keep going? Here..." He pulled a phial from his bag. "That's cocaine, for our eyes. This is chloroform, for our gums.""This", Ville said, emptying his shoulder bag "is liniment to put warmth back into our knees.""And pills. Do you want to see pills? Have a look, here are the pills." Each pulled out three boxes."The truth is", Francis said, "that we keep going on dynamite."
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Originally Posted by FRANK CANNON
Lol.

"You have no idea what the Tour de France is", Henri said. "It's a Calvary. Worse than that, because the road to the Cross has only 14 stations and ours has 15. We suffer from the start to the end. You want to know how we keep going? Here..." He pulled a phial from his bag. "That's cocaine, for our eyes. This is chloroform, for our gums.""This", Ville said, emptying his shoulder bag "is liniment to put warmth back into our knees.""And pills. Do you want to see pills? Have a look, here are the pills." Each pulled out three boxes."The truth is", Francis said, "that we keep going on dynamite."
HAHAhahaha! .....but dayum!
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Originally Posted by Repack Rider
Dirt Rag published the chapter in my book about the day in 1971 when I met Gary Fisher. All the action took place at the Grateful Dead office in San Rafael. Money quote was when Gary and I and Marmaduke, the singer in the New Riders, told Garcia we were going for a bike ride. Garcia said, "You won't run into ME out there!"
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Don't need an ashtray to take a trip on Acid. ;-))
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There has to be a reason there are so many deadhead everywhere!
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On a related note, for all you deadheads that don't have Sirius xm radio, and therefore can't get the grateful dead channel, GD RADIO dot net is a great free source that will satisfy all your grateful dead needs.
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Originally Posted by Stucky
The rock 'N roll culture seems to be the antithesis of cycling.
Most of the time it is, but there are exceptions. I was a rock band roadie when I put on the first of the Repack races. I gave a copy of my mountain bike book to Bill Champlin, double-Grammy winner and the frontman for the band I served as the roadie. He asked, "Where was I when all this was going on?" I had to tell him, you weren't on the bike rides!

As i pointed out, Bob Weir was a mountain biker. Gary Fisher and I rode with him.

In the '70s I was going out with a girl whose roommate was dating Craig Chaquico, lead guitar for Jefferson Airplane. I helped Craig build a "klunker."

Sean Hopper, keyboards for Huey Lewis and the News, has a Steve Potts bike.

More recently Bono famously crashed his bike in Central park, and took major damage.
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Originally Posted by Repack Rider
Most of the time it is, but there are exceptions. I was a rock band roadie when I put on the first of the Repack races. I gave a copy of my mountain bike book to Bill Champlin, double-Grammy winner and the frontman for the band I served as the roadie. He asked, "Where was I when all this was going on?" I had to tell him, you weren't on the bike rides!

As i pointed out, Bob Weir was a mountain biker. Gary Fisher and I rode with him.

In the '70s I was going out with a girl whose roommate was dating Craig Chaquico, lead guitar for Jefferson Airplane. I helped Craig build a "klunker."

Sean Hopper, keyboards for Huey Lewis and the News, has a Steve Potts bike.

More recently Bono famously crashed his bike in Central park, and took major damage.
David Byrne rides regularly in NYC.
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Originally Posted by Repack Rider
Most of the time it is, but there are exceptions. I was a rock band roadie when I put on the first of the Repack races. I gave a copy of my mountain bike book to Bill Champlin, double-Grammy winner and the frontman for the band I served as the roadie. He asked, "Where was I when all this was going on?" I had to tell him, you weren't on the bike rides!

As i pointed out, Bob Weir was a mountain biker. Gary Fisher and I rode with him.

In the '70s I was going out with a girl whose roommate was dating Craig Chaquico, lead guitar for Jefferson Airplane. I helped Craig build a "klunker."

Sean Hopper, keyboards for Huey Lewis and the News, has a Steve Potts bike.

More recently Bono famously crashed his bike in Central park, and took major damage.
I live down the road from a member of the Kentucky Headhunters(Who shall remain nameless to protect his privacy). He once told me of the time he met Bob Dylan. His opinion of Dylan (exact words): "He's a sick puppy!". Every time I hear Dylan mentioned or played, I think of that quote.
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If Weir could have somehow gotten Garcia into biking The J-Man would probably still be with us. A lotta folk think it was the junk that killed him, but from everything I've read it was the cigarettes, lousy diet, and lack of exercise that really did him in. DM II and a heart attack will do that to you. Of course he made his own choices as everyone has a right to, but I sure wish he'd opted for life instead of death by neglect.

In a variety of ways the Dead have been an intimate part of my subconscious ever since I was first turned on to them 40-some years ago, and they have a meaning for me that few other cultural artifacts do. Dead shows, and Jerry band shows in particular, were intimate and communal in the best way, and I cherish the memories of all the shows I saw.
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If Weir could have somehow gotten Garcia into biking The J-Man would probably still be with us. A lotta folk think it was the junk that killed him, but from everything I've read it was the cigarettes, lousy diet, and lack of exercise that really did him in. DM II and a heart attack will do that to you. Of course he made his own choices as everyone has a right to, but I sure wish he'd opted for life instead of death by neglect.

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Or, to put it more succinctly: A decadent lifestyle- which is what the rock 'n roll lifestyle is all about. (Would be pretty hard to not to lead such a lifestyle, for anyone who spends a lot of time touring, and doing the same shows over and over again a few hundred times a year. People think it's glamorous....but it must be the most monotonous thing one can do)
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Originally Posted by Repack Rider


Here is a photo from a ride I took with Bob in 1992. This is all in my book, Fat Tire Flyer: Repack and the Birth of Mountain Biking.
That's a great pic. I'm definitely going to have to check that book out, thanks!
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