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This weight weenie thing is not working for me

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Old 12-31-10, 09:09 PM
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This weight weenie thing is not working for me
I think I have figured out why:



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Old 12-31-10, 09:17 PM
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You need carbon fiber biscuits.
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Oh man... I really love biscuits.

I eat about 2200 calories a day and maintain my monumental weight of 125pounds. It's like a curse.
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It gets even more depressing when you start weighing beer . . .
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That's pretty heavy for a carbon cage. Just sayin'.

Also, hello from 2011!
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That's gotta' hurt
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Originally Posted by StephenH
You need rubber biscuits.
Fixed.
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Originally Posted by x43x
There are two cages there, so they are 16 grams each. Pretty good actually. What brand?
Oops, so there are. I've been at the wine.
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There are two cages there, so they are 16 grams each. Pretty good actually. What brand?
$13.76 worth of Chinese carbon from e-bay (for the pair). They are pretty light and the cool thing is that they probably won't hold bottles very well so when they fall off I lose even more weight from my bike.
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Originally Posted by patentcad
Originally Posted by StephenH
You need rubber biscuits.
Fixed.
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Originally Posted by king-tony
$13.76 worth of Chinese carbon from e-bay (for the pair). They are pretty light and the cool thing is that they probably won't hold bottles very well so when they fall off I lose even more weight from my bike.
I've been using ebay cages that look like this for a year or so and I've never dropped a bottle:



If anything, they could do with being slightly looser.
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Originally Posted by StephenH
You need carbon fiber biscuits.
Nice one!


What I'd like to invent is a calorie counter for your trainer or treadmill that shows cookies or candybars or your favorite unit of calories burned. Might be depressing to learn that you would need to climb Mt. Ventoux just to pay for eating that slice of Chicago pizza.

You could type in turkey, dressing, sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, pecan pie and get a read out saying "you must ride stages 12-16 of the the 2005 TdF to pay for this meal".
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Originally Posted by DRietz
Oh man... I really love biscuits.

I eat about 2200 calories a day and maintain my monumental weight of 125pounds. It's like a curse.
Clearly you don't love them enough.
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Don't forget the gravy. You can't have biscuits without sausage gravy.
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One man's biscuits and gravy are another man's bagel and cream cheese.
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Originally Posted by DRietz
Oh man... I really love biscuits.

I eat about 2200 calories a day and maintain my monumental weight of 125pounds. It's like a curse.
Bastard. Rat bastard.
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Originally Posted by DRietz
Oh man... I really love biscuits.

I eat about 2200 calories a day and maintain my monumental weight of 125pounds. It's like a curse.
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Bastard. Rat bastard.
He wouldn't stay skinny in our neck of the swamp. With the cuisine we have here he'd balloon up in no-time! Laissez les bons temps rouler.
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Originally Posted by Kabloink
Don't forget the gravy. You can't have biscuits without sausage gravy.
It's better with kielbasa.
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Originally Posted by patentcad
Fixed.
Or a wish sandwich.
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Originally Posted by Nachoman
One man's biscuits and gravy are another man's bagel and cream cheese.
My biscuits 'n gravy recipe calls for 2 cups flour, 1/2 lb of sausage, 2 oz of butter and about a cup of milk. It serves one (me).

There is no way to produce a bagel and cream cheese equivalent.
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Originally Posted by Nachoman
One man's biscuits and gravy are another man's bagel and cream cheese.
. . . or buttery pancakes and syrup with hot italian sausage.
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You are missing jam, and cream.

Mmmmmm.
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. . . or buttery pancakes and syrup with hot italian sausage.
you eat this for breakfast?
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