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Road Cycling “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” -- Ernest Hemingway

You think you have potholes?

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Old 03-11-11, 04:49 AM
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Hills hurt.. Couches kill
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You think you have potholes?
I got potholes.

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Nice.

I was on a "road" in Kazakhstan which looked like it had been mini-bombed for miles. Like what I assume a bombed out airstrip would look like.

Made for entertaining cycling though, trying to pick a line.
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Originally Posted by RacerOne
I got potholes.

Face-breaker. Probably everything else- breaker too.
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pshttt you could bunny hop it
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Is that picture symbolic of throwing a lot of money into a hole as in biking being a constant expense (and not cheap at that)?
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You definitely have potholes!
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I would hate to hit this pothole

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Originally Posted by RacerOne
I got sinkholes.

ftfy

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Old 03-11-11, 11:20 AM
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This is the worst I've got






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That would suck.
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We have a few like that on the edge of the roads around here. The shoulder just kind of drops out from under you.
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Anybody in Japan right now? I bet they can top that.

P.S. If anybody really is in Japan, I wish them the best. Terrible situation.
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