New Year's Resolution?
#26
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-40 lbs. If I can't ride that day, run instead.
-4 bikes. Five would be better. It's hard to send them up for adoption.
Get back on the Century-a-Month routine
Do Dairyland Dare, correctly.
L'Eroica
or
Mountains to Beach (NC)
When I realize I ran 3,000+ miles a year for 3 straight years, my riding mileage makes me sick. Fixing that.
-4 bikes. Five would be better. It's hard to send them up for adoption.
Get back on the Century-a-Month routine
Do Dairyland Dare, correctly.
L'Eroica
or
Mountains to Beach (NC)
When I realize I ran 3,000+ miles a year for 3 straight years, my riding mileage makes me sick. Fixing that.
Last edited by RobbieTunes; 12-26-12 at 07:55 PM.
#28
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From: Queens NYC
Bikes: Colnago Super, Basso Gap, Pogliaghi, Fabio Barecci, Torelli Pista, Miyata 1400A
Not really a resolution, but I've been putting off getting a bike rack for the car, but I have to get one this year so I can get out to some of the better places to ride in NYC. I'm in abit of a cycling rut riding over pretty much the same streets all the time, so I need to expand my horizons and get into some real good cycling territory. We've got some great parks to ride in, but they are a difficult ride to get to, so the rack is the way!
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#29
Sell at least 3 bikes.
Lose 30#
Finish my home projects & ride more.
Lose 30#
Finish my home projects & ride more.
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72 Frejus (for sale), Holdsworth Record (for sale), special CNC & Gitane Interclub / 74 Italvega NR (for sale) / c80 French / 82 Raleigh Intl MkII f&f (for sale)/ 83 Trek 620 (for sale)/ 84 Bruce Gordon Chinook (for sale)/ 85 Ron Cooper / 87 Centurion IM MV (for sale) / 03 Casati Dardo / 08 BF IRO / 09 Dogma FPX / 09 Giant TCX0 / 10 Vassago Fisticuff
72 Frejus (for sale), Holdsworth Record (for sale), special CNC & Gitane Interclub / 74 Italvega NR (for sale) / c80 French / 82 Raleigh Intl MkII f&f (for sale)/ 83 Trek 620 (for sale)/ 84 Bruce Gordon Chinook (for sale)/ 85 Ron Cooper / 87 Centurion IM MV (for sale) / 03 Casati Dardo / 08 BF IRO / 09 Dogma FPX / 09 Giant TCX0 / 10 Vassago Fisticuff
#31
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Joined: Dec 2005
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From: Ashland, VA
Bikes: The keepers: 1969 Magneet Sprint, 1971 Gitane Tour de France, 1973 Raleigh Twenty, 3 - 1986 Rossins.
1. Ride LESS next year. I'm over 6600 miles for this year, have no hope of matching my best ever (6835 in 2007). It's gotten too obsessive. I plan on settling back to 100 miles a week, average.
2. Now that the business license papers have been filed, make a go with Syke's Cyclery (repairs, refurbishing, restorations). And not do like I did with my last business of burning out and ruining a good hobby.
2. Now that the business license papers have been filed, make a go with Syke's Cyclery (repairs, refurbishing, restorations). And not do like I did with my last business of burning out and ruining a good hobby.
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“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
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Syke
“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
H.L. Mencken, (1926)
#32
MIKE is my name!

Joined: Mar 2012
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From: finland,baltimore
Bikes: hans lutz, , puch mistral ultima,2x Austro Daimler Smoked chrome Ultima,Austro Daimler Mixte,Austro Daimler 531 mixte, flying arrow,F Moser,
Find my grail bike.
Thin out my fleet of used bikes that won't be sold or parted up..give them away, just thin out the fleet.
Thin out my fleet of used bikes that won't be sold or parted up..give them away, just thin out the fleet.
#33
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Joined: Oct 2011
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From: Normal, Illinois
Bikes: Trek 600 ,1980Raleigh Competition G.S., 1986 Schwinn Passage, Facet Biotour 2000, Falcon San Remo 531,Schwinn Sierra, Sun Seeker tricycle recumbent,1985 Bianchi Squadra
Build a couple bikes,so I have more than 1, lose 50# .
#34
Vello Kombi, baby

Joined: Dec 2002
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From: Je suis ici
Bikes: 1973 Eisentraut; 1970s Richard Sachs; 1978 Alfio Bonnano; 1967 Peugeot PX10
Meh. I think I'll just keep doing what I've been doing. I haven't bought a bike for me in almost a year, and if Westminster doesn't have anything, it'll stretch into two. I futtered around with what was in the pile this past year, playing with the setup of the PE41 and repainting the Viner, and rode I don't know how many miles (I don't keep track). I'll continue to do things just about like that, only buying a bike when it is either special or interesting, and riding lots.
I have ideas about my professional life; this past year has opened up some real options and I will be working on my real work a bit harder. Good thing I enjoy it.
No longer allowed in studio: phone, computer, tablet. Kicked other human beings out ten years ago, this is an even better move...
I have ideas about my professional life; this past year has opened up some real options and I will be working on my real work a bit harder. Good thing I enjoy it.
No longer allowed in studio: phone, computer, tablet. Kicked other human beings out ten years ago, this is an even better move...
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#35
Seeing as my shoulder is finally healing up. Thank goodness.
Buy no more bikes! 9 is enough.
I want to finish up all the bike I already own. And start riding them again.
Figure about 350-500 a week again would be a good start.
Buy no more bikes! 9 is enough.
I want to finish up all the bike I already own. And start riding them again.
Figure about 350-500 a week again would be a good start.
#38
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From: Carlsbad, CA
Bikes: '09 Felt F55, '84 Masi Cran Criterium, (2)'86 Schwinn Pelotons, '86 Look Equippe Hinault, '09 Globe Live 3 (dogtaxi), '94 Greg Lemond, '99 GT Pulse Kinesis
~Lose 15 lbs by l'Etape du California, and finish in the Top 100
~Write Gramma by hand once a month, and send pictures
~Write one postcard per week to my beloved gf
~Pay off mortgage and finish the year completely debt-free, but continue making mortgage payments into my savings. (Pretty pumped about that one.)
~Buy all the 7800 components for my beloved gf's baby Peloton, but let her install, properly torque, adjust, and fine-tune every aspect (except maybe building the wheels), with my sole participation being words. (Pumped about that one too.)

~Take my dog for at least one pleasure/training ride per month. She's 14 now and won't be around forever.

~Ride at least one century per month. (Completely flaked on that in 2012.) And finish at least two in Sub-5.
~Write Gramma by hand once a month, and send pictures
~Write one postcard per week to my beloved gf
~Pay off mortgage and finish the year completely debt-free, but continue making mortgage payments into my savings. (Pretty pumped about that one.)
~Buy all the 7800 components for my beloved gf's baby Peloton, but let her install, properly torque, adjust, and fine-tune every aspect (except maybe building the wheels), with my sole participation being words. (Pumped about that one too.)

~Take my dog for at least one pleasure/training ride per month. She's 14 now and won't be around forever.

~Ride at least one century per month. (Completely flaked on that in 2012.) And finish at least two in Sub-5.
#39
I did a lot of physical stuff growing up/working all these years and things are a bit worn. I need to be more graceful and expend energy in measured doses.
Like not shoveling 6" of heavy snow for a couple of hours.
Like not shoveling 6" of heavy snow for a couple of hours.
#40
Get off my lawn!


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From: The Garden State
Bikes: 1917 Loomis, 1923 Rudge, 1930 Hercules Renown, 1947 Mclean, 1948 JA Holland, 1955 Hetchins, 1957 Carlton Flyer, 1962 Raleigh Sport, 1978&81 Raleigh Gomp GS', 2010 Raliegh Clubman
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