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Singlespeed & Fixed Gear "I still feel that variable gears are only for people over forty-five. Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailer? We are getting soft...As for me, give me a fixed gear!"-- Henri Desgrange (31 January 1865 - 16 August 1940)

Set the controls for the heart of the sun

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Old 04-29-05, 05:37 PM
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Hour lunch break, Oregon springtime with the green-ness of Willamette Valley lush and even in the city a sort of blissfully natural essence, certainly for me right now on my bike pushing a just-right 78 gear inches and it's an easy 72 degrees on the skin as I hop the curb for shortcut through Alberta park. Grass just cut, smells like my childhood pushing the mower over endless weekend days watching my friends ride by on their ultra-cool bmx's, wishing I was out there riding with them. Between the slide and the teeter-totter I've gotta duck under a branch dangling from the over-grown oak, leaves tickle my neck and I giggle, maybe 'cause I realize that now I'm free to ride my bike when I like, maybe just 'cause it feels so good....I've been waiting for spring to come for so long now that I'm gonna leap ninja-like on it's sunny ass and tackle it to the ground on every lunch break, every b***chin ride home, every night that Jessica's busy creating art, every weekend day down Umatilla street with a smile on my face and I'll storm into the house with the kid that's always mowing the lawn and tell his mom to let the poor f***ing kid go ride his bike. It is going to be a glorious Spring.
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Old 04-29-05, 08:25 PM
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can i get an amen?
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Old 04-29-05, 09:47 PM
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Amen. And beautiful. That's all I have to say about that.
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Amen.
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