View Poll Results: Why do your ride?
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Why do you ride?
05-25-05, 01:42 PM
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Climb on my trusty steed
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There are plenty of reasons I could list as to why I ride. But there is no reason that I ride my bike. I ride my bike just to ride.
05-25-05, 02:31 PM
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Meow!
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Where is the racing option?!
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Just your average club rider... :)
Just your average club rider... :)
05-25-05, 02:35 PM
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Originally Posted by DieselDan
One word: diabetes.
05-25-05, 03:12 PM
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Gravel for Breakfast
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Remember when you first learned to ride a bike? You pushed off, and cranked down on the left pedal, and before you could roll to a stop on the grass, you magically made the transition to the right pedal, and then the left again? You wobbled all the way across the yard and turned a big arc back to the driveway, and rolled to a stop by the front porch. You were so high up, and moving so fast. Then when you started riding your bike to school, and you watched your shadow racing along on the pavement beside you, wondering why the spokes near the hub cast a shadow; but out by the rim, they were just a blur…
That's why I ride a bike.
That's why I ride a bike.
05-26-05, 12:01 AM
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Perpetual n00b
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I ride because computer games aren't fun anymore. 
05-26-05, 01:45 AM
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Location: Northern Ontario
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I ride for the fun of it, the adventure of travelling on the open road or on the trail. The health benefits and environmental aspect are just a bonus.
05-26-05, 03:39 AM
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without I would be an overstressedd,overweight,indoor ****** with no life....jeez I know some people like that.
Seriously, cycling has kept me fit. I don't really enjoy the traditional team sports. After college baseball and basketball had no attration doing the townie thing.
Seriously, cycling has kept me fit. I don't really enjoy the traditional team sports. After college baseball and basketball had no attration doing the townie thing.
05-26-05, 06:37 AM
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I find riding to be a very meditative experience. Going down a country road with just the sound of my bike, the wind, and the smells of nature I feel closer to enlightenment.
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The few, the proud, the likely insane, Metro-Atlanta bicycle commuters.
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05-26-05, 11:01 AM
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eert a ekil yzarc
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10. Its faster than walking
9. Its safer on the knees than walking.
8. Not about to swim the bayous and ditches to work.
7. I don't have chicken legs.
6. Can't skateboard on dirt trails.
5. Its like a bad habit that you can't quit.
4. Open aired decompression chamber
3. Chicks dig scars
2. From time to time, it takes me back to my childhood... yeah when my dad would swing me around and I'd pretend I was an airplane... just now I crash land.
1. If I didn't ride, my wife wouldn't let me keep all those bikes.
9. Its safer on the knees than walking.
8. Not about to swim the bayous and ditches to work.
7. I don't have chicken legs.
6. Can't skateboard on dirt trails.
5. Its like a bad habit that you can't quit.
4. Open aired decompression chamber
3. Chicks dig scars
2. From time to time, it takes me back to my childhood... yeah when my dad would swing me around and I'd pretend I was an airplane... just now I crash land.
1. If I didn't ride, my wife wouldn't let me keep all those bikes.
05-26-05, 11:40 AM
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Wood Licker
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Originally Posted by Mr. Joker
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