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You should see the reactions from a cancer walk (fundraiser). If you are actually serious - please don't contribute to the gene pool. |
Originally Posted by Gene2308
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Mr. Fred - I suspect you are really not much more than an educated troll just messing around, probably for lack of anything else to do.
If you are actually serious - please don't contribute to the gene pool. |
Originally Posted by fredgarvin7
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nice to see all the "tolerant" anti-smoking fascists. As a former smoker, (free at last) i have noticed that the most virulent critics of "the filthy weed" are ex-smokers, not non-smokers. It's like they "got religion"! The only way that tobacco smoke from someone outdoors moving at good clip could bother anyone is if they were drafting. So don't draft the smoker. Geeze! In nj the state would go broke w/o cigarette tax revenue. The excise tax is over half the cost of a pack, upon which sales tax is then paid. Taxing taxes! In nj, they want smokers to buy cigarettes, just don't smoke 'em!
And smoking does not= littering. They are 2 separate acts. Let he who has never tossed a gum wrapper cast the first stone. |
I hate to hit the bumps and spill the bong water......makes everything stinky.
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My grandfather used to smoke while riding his bike. Lavallette, NJ is dead flat north to south, and maybe a 30' rise from west to east. He'd ride his Schwinn Heavy-Duty up to the boardwalk from his house 3 blocks away, then ride the 5 mile length of the boardwalk from end to end. The whole time, he'd have a Lucky non-filter lit up.
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I used to do it a lot when I smoked. Yeah, you gotta cup the smoke to keep it from going out. I even thought about getting a bar mounted ashtray, as I was always jamming butts in nooks on my bike - behind bottle cages, shifters, seatclamp bolts, between the double top tube and the tank on my cruiser, you name it.
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Originally Posted by Totaled108
(Post 9818555)
The picture you paint makes me smile, kind of looks funny in my head. I don't smoke, but I'd like to see this. The only thing that would make it more funny is if you were riding a recumbent, but I imagine you don't. Good times
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A recumbent trike with the easy chair look seems like the perfect set up for pipe or cigar. Must have drink holder.
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I smoke regularly, but have never done so on a bicycle. I am too lazy to go through the hassle of taking a cigarette out, putting it back in my pocket, find my lighter, etc.
But a recumbent looks like the perfect vehicle to ride while smoking. I've never seen one in person. How does it ride? Is the balancing similar to riding a normal upright bicycle? Can you ride a recumbent safely (being in control) at a slow 3 - 5mph pace (like a regular bicycle)? If so, it would make a wonderful leisurely morning coffee/cigarette ride! |
Originally Posted by wheeldeal
(Post 9828958)
I smoke regularly, but have never done so on a bicycle. I am too lazy to go through the hassle of taking a cigarette out, putting it back in my pocket, find my lighter, etc.
But a recumbent looks like the perfect vehicle to ride while smoking. I've never seen one in person. How does it ride? Is the balancing similar to riding a normal upright bicycle? Can you ride a recumbent safely (being in control) at a slow 3 - 5mph pace (like a regular bicycle)? If so, it would make a wonderful leisurely morning coffee/cigarette ride! |
Cigarette smoke annoys me pretty bad wherever and whenever I encounter it. But for some reason, pipe tobacco smoke actually appeals to me. I find it sweet smelling. Why is this? Aren't they made from the same stuff, tobacco leaves?
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Pipe tobacco and cigar tobacco smell good because they are simply cut and cured leaves. Some pipe tobaccos have aromatic oils and other fine smelling additives. Still basically real tobacco leaves. Cigarettes are a different type of tobacco and are processed differently and much more intensely. They are also full of other junk i.e. chemicals, paper, etc.
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Originally Posted by jonas604
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Pipe tobacco and cigar tobacco smell good because they are simply cut and cured leaves. Some pipe tobaccos have aromatic oils and other fine smelling additives. Still basically real tobacco leaves. Cigarettes are a different type of tobacco and are processed differently and much more intensely. They are also full of other junk i.e. chemicals, paper, etc.
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Originally Posted by fender1
(Post 9827991)
I hate to hit the bumps and spill the bong water......makes everything stinky.
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I'm a former smoker but not militant about it. Like many other former smokers the smell is probably more irritating after quitting. Outdoors I just quietly remove myself from the cloud whenever possible.
However the sight of smoking while riding a bicycle just rankles me. It's like watching a kid pick his nose. Stopping and lighting up doesn't even cause me a second glance. It's clearly my problem. Completely illogical. Don't even know why I'm posting this. There.. I said it. :eek: |
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Originally Posted by Mr_Fred
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Anyone else do this? |
Originally Posted by I-Like-To-Bike
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Cycling Smokers have more fun! Believe it!
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Originally Posted by Erick L
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That is great! |
"It's nice to see that you are still easily riled up and make as much sense as usual."
I'm sorry. I forgot that only you and those you agree with are entitled to an opinion. |
I believe that ex-smokers like myself have very little right to criticize smokers. We all did exactly the same things that we get so sanctimonious about with current smokers. I find I am much LESS able to tolerate cigarette smoke AFTER quitting than I was before I smoked. Yet even so, the whiff of cigarette smoke i get from passing cars is no more than another bad smell to me. Some people here have the attitude of a guy who wrote a letter to editor of the local paper back when there were separate smoking and non-smoking sections in restaurants. The writer wrote self-rightiously about how he and his wife were at the last table of the non-smoking section. He complained that smoke from the first table in the smoking section was bothering his wife-a non-smoker. He asked the smoker to stop and when he refused, saying he was in the smoking section, the letter writer freaked out, causing a scene in the diner. The writer bemoaned that he was a smoker for 20 years and that HE was able to quit, and why couldn't the guy in the diner stop, since it was causing his wife so much distress? Apparently, it never dawned on this pinhead that maybe 2 decades of him fouling the house where his wife lived with HIS cigarette smoke, was the REAL issue. So, I am slow to criticize the smoker, especially when he/she is obeying the rules.
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Originally Posted by fredgarvin7
(Post 9833433)
"It's nice to see that you are still easily riled up and make as much sense as usual."
I'm sorry. I forgot that only you and those you agree with are entitled to an opinion. Just because you have an opinion doesn't make it right. |
Originally Posted by fredgarvin7
(Post 9833508)
I believe that ex-smokers like myself have very little right to criticize smokers. We all did exactly the same things that we get so sanctimonious about with current smokers. I find I am much LESS able to tolerate cigarette smoke AFTER quitting than I was before I smoked. Yet even so, the whiff of cigarette smoke i get from passing cars is no more than another bad smell to me. Some people here have the attitude of a guy who wrote a letter to editor of the local paper back when there were separate smoking and non-smoking sections in restaurants. The writer wrote self-rightiously about how he and his wife were at the last table of the non-smoking section. He complained that smoke from the first table in the smoking section was bothering his wife-a non-smoker. He asked the smoker to stop and when he refused, saying he was in the smoking section, the letter writer freaked out, causing a scene in the diner. The writer bemoaned that he was a smoker for 20 years and that HE was able to quit, and why couldn't the guy in the diner stop, since it was causing his wife so much distress? Apparently, it never dawned on this pinhead that maybe 2 decades of him fouling the house where his wife lived with HIS cigarette smoke, was the REAL issue. So, I am slow to criticize the smoker, especially when he/she is obeying the rules.
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"Incorrect. We have all the rights to criticize having been there ourselves."
Yup, just like the guy who's too old to carry on anymore, who "sees the light" and now trys to stop others from doing what he LOVED to do when he was able. |
Interesting, indeed! I quit smoking over 5 years ago, but when I did smoke I would occasionally ride with a cigarette. But mostly not, because I found it a distraction. The vast majority of the time I would light up after a ride.
Luv the handlebar mounted ashtray.... looks like something I would put together. |
Originally Posted by fredgarvin7
(Post 9833920)
"Incorrect. We have all the rights to criticize having been there ourselves."
Yup, just like the guy who's too old to carry on anymore, who "sees the light" and now trys to stop others from doing what he LOVED to do when he was able. lol Now use the quote button. |
Originally Posted by MNBikeguy
(Post 9832002)
I'm a former smoker but not militant about it. Like many other former smokers the smell is probably more irritating after quitting. Outdoors I just quietly remove myself from the cloud whenever possible.
However the sight of smoking while riding a bicycle just rankles me. It's like watching a kid pick his nose. Stopping and lighting up doesn't even cause me a second glance. It's clearly my problem. Completely illogical. Don't even know why I'm posting this. There.. I said it. :eek: Go figure. Times have changed. Never smoked cigarettes, but enjoy a good cigar once in a while. I already enjoy riding helmetless past a group of helmeted riders uphill (sometimes it's the other way around :( ). But I think adding smoking a cigar to the routine is just the right touch. You have to admit that the image of an old fart, sans helmet, puffing on a cigar and passing a bunch of lycra clad helmet wearling kids uphill is a sweet picture. Of course, pulling it off is another thing. :) |
Cyclists getting amped about cigarette butt litter is hilarious. I don't smoke, but butts are cotton and paper. How long do you think your worn out tires sit in a landfill, your stretched out chains, and worn saddles? Oh sure you don't throw them on the side of the road, but they don't magically disappear when they hit the trash.
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In that case the next time I change a flat I will toss the tube alongside the road in front of your home.
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Originally Posted by Treespeed
(Post 9835866)
Cyclists getting amped about cigarette butt litter is hilarious. I don't smoke, but butts are cotton and paper. How long do you think your worn out tires sit in a landfill, your stretched out chains, and worn saddles? Oh sure you don't throw them on the side of the road, but they don't magically disappear when they hit the trash.
Cigarette butts are made from a type of acetate that never fully breaks down. |
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