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04-28-07, 08:58 AM
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I need more cowbell.
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A new convert...
Friend / colleague of mine may be joining the herd. He's finally gotten so fed up with the price of gas so he's going to start biking his errands (in Encinitas, for any locals reading this). He asked advice yesterday on beater bikes, locks, that sort of thing. It's a start! 
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04-28-07, 09:17 AM
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Hope you can advise him on where to look. Only problem- How fit is he? Just a newbie to fitness?overweight by 60lbs? Been running 3 hour marathons as a way of keeping fit? If its the latter- Surely you can help him out with one of your old Mountain bikes that you may be persuaded to sell?
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04-28-07, 09:28 AM
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Originally Posted by stapfam
Hope you can advise him on where to look. Only problem- How fit is he? Just a newbie to fitness?overweight by 60lbs? Been running 3 hour marathons as a way of keeping fit? If its the latter- Surely you can help him out with one of your old Mountain bikes that you may be persuaded to sell?
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04-28-07, 09:59 AM
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You can always be friendly and offer to service it for him- Then he will have to buy another bike.
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04-28-07, 10:16 AM
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Originally Posted by stapfam
You can always be friendly and offer to service it for him- Then he will have to buy another bike.
After spending a half hour trying to adjust my brakes and only making them worse, I took the bike to the LBS and the wrench made it perfect in 90 seconds. Then he showed me what to do, and it all made sense, and I nodded appropriately, and off I went.
Fifteen minutes later I realized I had no clue what to do next time.
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Originally Posted by Digital Gee
He's annoyingly fit. He's been a yoga instructor for years and years.
No one with less than 25% body fat! (Will D. excepted...)
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Originally Posted by Digital Gee
This is he...
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04-28-07, 11:50 AM
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This is he...
Ah, to be young again, just kidding I'm glad it's over.
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04-28-07, 12:17 PM
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Originally Posted by George
Ah, to be young again, just kidding I'm glad it's over.
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OMG......that's my little brother. He fell out of the cradle after I pushed him (he got the good looks) and was last seen traveling east with some itinerent yogi's preaching mind/body oneness and skin moisturizing therapy.
04-28-07, 05:15 PM
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Do I use too many commas?
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He has hair, and it is slicked back. I am automatically biased against him.
