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Old 11-04-10 | 10:51 AM
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Originally Posted by skiffrun
Sorry if this seems like trolling.

I LOVE going into a bike shop and having the "wannabe-racer 20-something bike-shop dude" ask me if they can help me / did I ride this past weekend.

I LOVE it because when I answer "well, this past weekend I did two solo rides totalling 255 miles", they get that "oh, this isn't a 20-mile-is-along-ride-johnny" look, and ... leave me alone. Or, at least the ones with any common sense do.
I tickles me that the employees at my LBS idolize the owner because he rides a 70 mile solo ride every other Sunday morning.

Every customer who claims to be a rider is questioned with "How far did you ride yesterday?"

They thought that I was BS'ing them when I answered "150 miles"... but now they know me as "That old guy who takes 30 miles to warm up."
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