Biking Popularity
04-21-06 | 07:08 PM
#76
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Joined: Dec 2004
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From: Seattle area
Bikes: Bikes??? Thought this was social media?!?
This thread is getting funnier and funnier.
Traffic Jammer --
To be a 50+ appropriate "old fart elitist bastard" model, OFEB, it needs (at a minimum):
triple chainring, bigger rear cogs (maybe 11-32)
fatter tires
upsloping stem
riser handlebars
large saddlebag
etc, etc, etc......and so on and so forth
love the can't suck this wheel pissy tires.
Traffic Jammer --
To be a 50+ appropriate "old fart elitist bastard" model, OFEB, it needs (at a minimum):
triple chainring, bigger rear cogs (maybe 11-32)
fatter tires
upsloping stem
riser handlebars
large saddlebag
etc, etc, etc......and so on and so forth
love the can't suck this wheel pissy tires.
04-21-06 | 07:14 PM
#77
Been Around Awhile
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 30,657
Likes: 1,975
From: Burlington Iowa
Bikes: Vaterland and Ragazzi
Originally Posted by Big Paulie
This machine could be "Standard Issue" for the 50+ Forum members!!! Any one who posts a minimum of once a day for a calender years gets one free!
Each member, however, would have to add their own "I-Don't-Care-How-Many-People-I-Drive-Away-From-Cycling-With-My-Cocky-Attitude" peddles, to match their "Crusier-Bikes-Blow" clipless shoes and their "Holier-Than-Thou" socks, not to mention their "I-Am-A-Brain-Dead-Conformist" helmet.
Each member, however, would have to add their own "I-Don't-Care-How-Many-People-I-Drive-Away-From-Cycling-With-My-Cocky-Attitude" peddles, to match their "Crusier-Bikes-Blow" clipless shoes and their "Holier-Than-Thou" socks, not to mention their "I-Am-A-Brain-Dead-Conformist" helmet.
04-21-06 | 07:33 PM
#78
In Memory of One Cool Cat
Joined: Feb 2004
Posts: 2,722
Likes: 1
From: Charlottesville, VA
Bikes: Lemond Victoire, Cannondale.Mountain Bike, two 1980s lugged steel Treks, ancient 1980-something Giant mountain bike converted into a slick tired commuter with mustache handlebars, 1960-something Raleigh Sports
Originally Posted by Wildwood
This thread is getting funnier and funnier.
Traffic Jammer --
To be a 50+ appropriate "old fart elitist bastard" model, OFEB, it needs (at a minimum):
triple chainring, bigger rear cogs (maybe 11-32)
fatter tires
upsloping stem
riser handlebars
large saddlebag
etc, etc, etc......and so on and so forth
love the can't suck this wheel pissy tires.
Traffic Jammer --
To be a 50+ appropriate "old fart elitist bastard" model, OFEB, it needs (at a minimum):
triple chainring, bigger rear cogs (maybe 11-32)
fatter tires
upsloping stem
riser handlebars
large saddlebag
etc, etc, etc......and so on and so forth
love the can't suck this wheel pissy tires.
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04-21-06 | 09:42 PM
#79
lunatic fringe
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 1,111
Likes: 1
From: Miles from Nowhere, Columbia County, OR
Bikes: 1980 Schwinn World Sport, 1982 Schwinn Super Le Tour, 1984 (?) Univega Single Speed/Fixed conversion, Kogswell G58 fixed gear, 1987 Schwinn Super Sport
Yep. that's the bike for me. I would want a mirror though.... after I drop some 20 year old I want to watch them sitting back there like so much roadkill trying in vain to recover enough for another useless attack. 
Dogbait
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04-21-06 | 09:48 PM
#80
lunatic fringe
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 1,111
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From: Miles from Nowhere, Columbia County, OR
Bikes: 1980 Schwinn World Sport, 1982 Schwinn Super Le Tour, 1984 (?) Univega Single Speed/Fixed conversion, Kogswell G58 fixed gear, 1987 Schwinn Super Sport
How 'bout some team jerseys? Can we get them made cheap? Do they come in xxxlarge? What colors (colours) are considered serious? 
Dogbait
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04-21-06 | 10:16 PM
#81
I need more cowbell.
Joined: Jun 2005
Posts: 8,182
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From: Reno, Nevada
Bikes: 2015 Specialized Sirrus Elite
Originally Posted by Dogbait
How 'bout some team jerseys? Can we get them made cheap? Do they come in xxxlarge? What colors (colours) are considered serious?
Dogbait
Dogbait
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04-22-06 | 02:19 PM
#82
Time for a change.
Joined: Jan 2004
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From: 6 miles inland from the coast of Sussex, in the South East of England
Bikes: Dale MT2000. Bianchi FS920 Kona Explosif. Giant TCR C. Boreas Ignis. Pinarello Fp Uno.
Originally Posted by TRaffic Jammer
as requested.....the new '07 Drove - Elitist Bastard with new can't suck-this-wheel Pissy tires
Incidentally- A Kids TV program was doing a Prog on Mountain Biking and one of the presenters rode one of the races. He was Given a DGS BLX as his ride bike- but they had to modify the name so as not to offend. Luckily the frame was white so Typewriter correction ink blocked out part of the name to read GS LX.
Boobed again- gone onto the site to prove the name and they have changed it. Now a bit more explicit but site is https://www.robertscycles.com/p_mtb.html
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04-22-06 | 02:34 PM
#83
I need more cowbell.
Joined: Jun 2005
Posts: 8,182
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From: Reno, Nevada
Bikes: 2015 Specialized Sirrus Elite
Originally Posted by stapfam
To take the name of one of the best named MTB's in the UK- That bike is the DGS BLX. That is the true name of it and is a well treasured bike if you have one.
Incidentally- A Kids TV program was doing a Prog on Mountain Biking and one of the presenters rode one of the races. He was Given a DGS BLX as his ride bike- but they had to modify the name so as not to offend. Luckily the frame was white so Typewriter correction ink blocked out part of the name to read GS LX.
Boobed again- gone onto the site to prove the name and they have changed it. Now a bit more explicit but site is https://www.robertscycles.com/p_mtb.html
Incidentally- A Kids TV program was doing a Prog on Mountain Biking and one of the presenters rode one of the races. He was Given a DGS BLX as his ride bike- but they had to modify the name so as not to offend. Luckily the frame was white so Typewriter correction ink blocked out part of the name to read GS LX.
Boobed again- gone onto the site to prove the name and they have changed it. Now a bit more explicit but site is https://www.robertscycles.com/p_mtb.html
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04-22-06 | 02:57 PM
#84
In Memory of One Cool Cat
Joined: Feb 2004
Posts: 2,722
Likes: 1
From: Charlottesville, VA
Bikes: Lemond Victoire, Cannondale.Mountain Bike, two 1980s lugged steel Treks, ancient 1980-something Giant mountain bike converted into a slick tired commuter with mustache handlebars, 1960-something Raleigh Sports
I'm thinking the BLX has to do with "bollix."
This according to my online dictionary. Stapfam can correct me. He actually speaks English:
Verb 1. bollix - make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
Synonyms: botch, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fu*k up
This according to my online dictionary. Stapfam can correct me. He actually speaks English:
Verb 1. bollix - make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
Synonyms: botch, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fu*k up
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04-26-06 | 03:45 PM
#87
Time for a change.
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From: 6 miles inland from the coast of Sussex, in the South East of England
Bikes: Dale MT2000. Bianchi FS920 Kona Explosif. Giant TCR C. Boreas Ignis. Pinarello Fp Uno.
Originally Posted by Big Paulie
The letters "DG" didn't tip you off?
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04-26-06 | 03:50 PM
#88
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Originally Posted by Big Paulie
I thought "Elist" was French for elitist...
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04-26-06 | 10:59 PM
#89
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From: rockford, il
Bikes: Trek 7700, C'dale R2000
Hi Guy's
Greetings from Wickenburg, AZ, Day 3 of Fast Cross America Bike Tour.
It is really a work out so far. Tomorrow will be the most difficult climbing Day. I hear 11,000 ft total for the day. I will let you know how that goes. To this point I have managed to stay with the first 30% of bikers to arrive at the motel. It is definitely a mental thing. Training a lot on the CycleOps Fl2 was relevant.
More later. Got to sleep and get up at 5:00 AM every morning. Arrive at Motel from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM.
Greetings from Wickenburg, AZ, Day 3 of Fast Cross America Bike Tour.
It is really a work out so far. Tomorrow will be the most difficult climbing Day. I hear 11,000 ft total for the day. I will let you know how that goes. To this point I have managed to stay with the first 30% of bikers to arrive at the motel. It is definitely a mental thing. Training a lot on the CycleOps Fl2 was relevant.
More later. Got to sleep and get up at 5:00 AM every morning. Arrive at Motel from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM.
