Originally Posted by urbanknight

As I was climbing up Angeles Crest Hwy in a sudden and unpredicted downpour with my feet squishing in my soaked shoes and the wind coming from out of nowhere to remind me of the other places that were wet, I got to thinking: HTFU isn't some badge you earn just because you completed one ride with a broken arm. To all those who have posted "I have H'dTFU" just because they did a fast group ride in hail without arm warmers, or rode a century with the flu, or kept riding with diarrhea in their white shorts, you're not there yet. No rider has ever withdrawn from the TdF after a single bad luck stage telling the cameras "at least I H'dTFU". No, you have to go out and do it again and again and again. Only on your epitaph can you ever truly say "I have officially HTFU".

HTFU my friends, and keep H'ingTFU 'til the day you die!!! :thu mb: