The college kid pretending he is smarter than everyone else again.

I am not the one that endoed over a rock in the road. Too many college kids these days do not seem to be smart enough to use a good headlight while riding at night. How did they ever get accepted into college?


Some other person must have used your login name for the post above. Or maybe you need to find a better professor for your writing composition.

So why was it cool when the girl did it, but not cool if you would do it. There seems to be a gap there. And yes I understand wives.

My ex was not cool with my bicycle commuting until, because of our routes, she was able to come up behind me, she driving and I cycling and see that even though I was not aware of being observed by her, I was cycling in a manner that she considered safe. Then I had her do the numbers on how much it would cost us for me to be driving and that sealed it.

I would also recommend a good trampoline class. It teaches you how to remain in control of your body while in the air, how to manuever and how to position yourself for a safe landing. Priceless. Every cyclist should learn how to avoid damage in a crash.

Heh. Never had a thread I started trolled before, by what looks like a couple of cyber bullies at that. Irritating iniially, now just entertaining :)

Shoot. I thought this was going to be a coffee thread.

No one trolled or bullied you.



Except maybe your wife. After all, it was cool riding one handed when the girl did it and a big no no when you do it. Set you up with the troll, and bully slammed you when you admitted you did it as well.

One day I was out for a mellow ride around the neighborhood with the wife and kids. My son was trying to ride no handed and I was trying to give him some encouragement. My wife was shocked: "I can't believe you're encouraging him! It's unsafe!"

I said "Nah. It's a useful bike handling skill. How's he going to put some newspaper down his jersey going over the Gavia Pass if he can't ride no handed?"

Like I said: quit while your behind.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(Internet)#_

I'm going to end my contribution to this now pointless thread with a DNFTT request.

^^ But they are so, so hungry!

And I think a college kid must've killed that one's parents, because he sure hates them college kids.

You haven't been married for long, have you...? :p

Your right, only 21 years. Give me a break! If my wife controlled me, or I her like the OP it would have only lasted about 1 week!

Linking anything in this thread to murder, speaks of a very disturbed mind.

:lol::lol::lol:

That's incredible that you were able to figure out their entire relationship from a few sentences.

Personally, I take my spouse's opinion about my actions into consideration before I do something. I don't consider that to be controlling. Most people I know do that for people they care about.

Back on topic... Verbal blunders

My Mom would watch me ride off to school every day and wave, which was fine by me. It was our ritual. One particularly cold morning, I didn't notice the patch of black ice on the corner, and sure enough, I hit it while making my turn. Bike laid down, and so did I, and with the momentum I slid completely across the oncoming lane, coming to a rather inglorious halt in the gutter. My next utterance was that favorite fallback for teens to say when out of earshot of their parents. I picked myself up, and of course the bike was out of commission (twisted handlebar that I couldn't straighten myself). So, I limped back up the street home, dripping wet from the gutter, slightly scraped up from the road, past the kids who rode the bus to school.

I get back home to change clothes, ditch my ride, and try to catch the bus, but instead caught Hell from the 'rents, as sure enough, I wasn't out of earshot of Mom when I picked myself up.

Any ideas on why that bike got named "Dammit"?

One handed? I need both hands off the bar for air guitar. Bass. Van Halen.

Without thinking, I said: That isn't hard, I did it when I was carrying . . . her on my bike yesterday. At least she didn't let you finish the sentence.

Yesterday when discussing with my wife what road bike I might get, I mentioned the possibility of one day riding my bike to my parents' house, which is 50 miles away - a century ride round trip. Her first comment was "OMG isn't that dangerous???" :p Of course then I said century rides are typically done in groups and not alone. I probably wouldn't want to ride that far by myself anyway. But still her comments were a little humorous.

Did you recently take out a sizable life insurance policy?

She exclaimed "you're going back next year?!" after my long description of the awesome, but quite dangerous mountain biking adventure from this past weekend. Verbal blunder was giving her so much detail - like riding downhill at 30 mph, or the sheer cliff just 12 inches to the left of the trail, or...you know...and then saying this time next year would be a good time to go again.

No but today before kissing me goodbye she said "see how far you can go no hands on your way in to work this morning".

Should I be worried?

Ok I have one. It was just a few months back at the San Diego Century.

My wife is a really slow rider so when we bike together I ride with her for a while then power ahead and wait - sometimes for long periods of time - for her to catch up. Then I tag along for a while and repeat the process.

Anyway, at the San Diego Century bike ride, she was having a particularly rough day but I was at my best. After (another) long wait, she rolled on by me but this time I gave some rope and let her go out ahead for a minute. After starting back up again, as I gained on her and while hammering up a slight incline I was able to dial it up another hundred watts or so.

Just as I passed her, pulling out in to open road, I took my hands off the bars, sat up and shot back "kiss my asphalt!". I was already at least 30 feet in front but heard her say "what?". I just yelled back "nothing" and went on my way.

I sure dodged a bullet on that one.

haha oh man, my wife would hate it if I did that. Whenever we get a bike for her I'm sure I'll be riding my KHS when we go out together, and not my (soon to have) road bike. Last time we went on the MUP with her on my sis-in-law's bike, she was in front of me and not doing too well, nervous and all, as she had not ridden a bike in many years. I think next time we go she might do better if she followed behind me.

She probably meant your parents are dangerous, not the cycling.

haha no, she generally thinks cycling on roads with any more than the occasional car to be dangerous, even when there are adequate shoulders, bike lanes, or if the traffic generally moves slowly, i.e. 30 mph or less.

Considering your post that follows, I think it all makes sense :lol:

You're insured, right? (My wife likes to point that out to me on occasion, usually with a wicked glint in her eyes....)

There are two kinds of marriages: The ones where the man thinks he's in charge, and the ones that last.

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