Got my Soviet Jersey, Check out the poseur'ing
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Hey, I have the same jersey. I've been wearing it for 2 years and have had nothing but positive comments. Oh, and if you see me and try to pass me, I'll drop you like USSR dropped the US in the space race (everyone knows the moon landing was a fake ). Go team communist.
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Originally Posted by Totoro
Breaking Away was okay. In fact, I thought it was great when it first came out.
Are there any other cycling movies?
Are there any other cycling movies?
Do yourself a favour....see Hollentour. Awesome....but a documentary, not a movie.
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Originally Posted by ed073
Do yourself a favour....see Hollentour. Awesome....but a documentary, not a movie.
However thanks for the tip
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09-01-05, 06:18 PM
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Does that 1st Leutnant have a "take a look" mirror on his helmet? Or is it just an optical delusion?
Does that 1st Leutnant have a "take a look" mirror on his helmet? Or is it just an optical delusion?
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Originally Posted by newroadie
i don't think there's anything wrong with wearing a soviet jersey, but you should probably understand that there are some who are going to find it offensive. just because youre wearing it to be kitschy and hip doesnt mean people aren't going to take it seriously.
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09-01-05, 06:37 PM
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Originally Posted by ViperZ
Thats my point, they are all generally bad anyway, so you take'em as you get them 
I like Breaking Away as well.
I like Breaking Away as well.
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Originally Posted by SDRider
Why? The Soviets never attacked the US...who would find that offensive? Maybe Soviet Jews?
Uh, well...
There was the time they purposely shot down a civilian airliner with Americans onboard, when it accidently veered off course. And yes, it was a civilian plane, not a spy plane.
When at the same time, we have on several ocassions allowed their Russian Bear bombers to land, refuel, and conduct repairs when they made emergency landings at the AFB's along the Aleutians. We allowed them to land without boarding, and allowed them to leave. We escorted as expected, but NEVER shot them down. There was a big differance in the mentalities of the two nations during the cold war.
With all that said, I still think it's a neat jersey.
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09-01-05, 07:06 PM
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Originally Posted by khuon
I guess I'm also one of the few that liked American Flyers. By the by, both American Flyers and Breaking Away were written by the same person. In both movies, cycling was simply a backdrop. The real story was about something else. In Breaking Away it was about growing up and rising above "your lot in life". And in American Flyers it was about repairing the severed bonds in a dysfunctional family.
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09-01-05, 07:12 PM
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I reckon nowadays, round these parts you'd get in more trouble with a USA jersey than a USSR one...
And about 250 years ago, you'd get in more trouble with an England jersey.
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09-01-05, 07:15 PM
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OMG, that's from American Flyers. One of the WORST movies ever made!
guess... The Soviets are the bad guys, right?
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Originally Posted by celticfrost
I've yet to see that movie, but let me a wild guess... The Soviets are the bad guys, right?
guess... The Soviets are the bad guys, right?
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Originally Posted by Patriot
Uh, well...
There was the time they purposely shot down a civilian airliner with Americans onboard, when it accidently veered off course. And yes, it was a civilian plane, not a spy plane.
There was the time they purposely shot down a civilian airliner with Americans onboard, when it accidently veered off course. And yes, it was a civilian plane, not a spy plane.
12 years ago yesterday. Korean Air flight KAL-007
09-01-05, 07:18 PM
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N'ah. They're just part of the floorshow. The bad guy was actually a rider who was supposed to have been on the US Olympic team.
--- now I really wanna see it.
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Originally Posted by ViperZ
Good summary Khuon
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09-01-05, 07:26 PM
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Originally Posted by sunninho
Ditto. I liked American Flyers too and have seen it at least 6 times. Mainly, I liked the music, the cinematography over the mountain scenes and I had a little crush on Rae Dawn Chong.
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So here's the question as I see it: If you're OCP, and you wear the CCCP jersey, doesn't that make you OCCCP? 
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Originally Posted by Doid23
So here's the question as I see it: If you're OCP, and you wear the CCCP jersey, doesn't that make you OCCCP?
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Originally Posted by khuon
N'ah. They're just part of the floorshow. The bad guy was actually a rider who was supposed to have been on the US Olympic team.
Some of the show was very contrived, however if your a cycling fan, you just have to see it for posterity. I obviously own the DVD
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Originally Posted by Don Gwinn
But I have a question, and it's a serious question. What is the inside joke that I'm not getting about how cool Soviet/Commie cycling gear is? I mean, it's not like Ovoleg is being a wild-eyed iconoclast in terms of cycling here. I've noticed that Commie stuff, Soviet in particular, is a lot more popular with cyclists than it is with the general population, or so it seems to me.
I mean think about how we've glorified it.
Now the guys with the large surplus of disposable funds don't just stop at a CCCP cycling jersey or watch. They go out and get themselves one of these...
MiG-23s were just recently released to private ownership. There's already a few sporting FAA N-numbers.
The owner of the above jet also owns a MiG-21.
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Dude, to heck with a jersey....
I want an Su-37 with thrust vectoring.
I want an Su-37 with thrust vectoring.
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MiG-25 Foxbat, please.
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I guess when I see that jersey I shouldn't think of the millions dead under Stalin, the work camps, the torture of political prisoners, the general enslavement of generations because it is a good looking logo, right? Would you wear it in the same room with a man who spent nine years in a North Vietnamese POW camp? Would you wear it in front of a synagogue in Israel? Would you wear it in the same room with the mother of soldier killed manning a border station during the Cold War.
Hey kid, that symbol means something to some people. I’m one of them. If I could talk to you face to face I’d tell you that you had some serious wardrobe issues and suggest perhaps you might be better off in Cuba.
Oh, and whoever the mod was that suggested we take the politics out of this thread is…well…less than bright.
Thank you, I've had my say.
Hey kid, that symbol means something to some people. I’m one of them. If I could talk to you face to face I’d tell you that you had some serious wardrobe issues and suggest perhaps you might be better off in Cuba.
Oh, and whoever the mod was that suggested we take the politics out of this thread is…well…less than bright.
Thank you, I've had my say.
09-01-05, 10:08 PM
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yuck that horrible sickle and hammer... don't make me puke.
(edit: horid?)
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09-01-05, 10:32 PM
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