Riding your age vs. Acting your age...
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Riding your age vs. Acting your age...
Which is easier?
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How about riding the age that I act? Shouldn't take very much time at all.
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I don't mind riding my age, but I do mind acting my age.
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When riding a bike, you are allowed to act the average age of you and your bike. In some occasions, you are allowed to act the age of either yourself or your bike.
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Originally Posted by Tom Bombadil
When riding a bike, you are allowed to act the average age of you and your bike. In some occasions, you are allowed to act the age of either yourself or your bike.
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How about versus feeling your age?
"Feeling" as in:
1. Feeling like a nap after a long, hot ride, or
2. Feeling youthful, taking on new adventures, ideas, interests; refusing to conform to expectations for being inflexible, resistant, sedentary, etc.
"Feeling" as in:
1. Feeling like a nap after a long, hot ride, or
2. Feeling youthful, taking on new adventures, ideas, interests; refusing to conform to expectations for being inflexible, resistant, sedentary, etc.
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Wait, I only did 34 miles today. I think that must mean, yes, it must mean that inside I am indeed only 34!
Next weekend I'm doing 102 on Saturday. I hope that doesn't mean what I fear it means.
Next weekend I'm doing 102 on Saturday. I hope that doesn't mean what I fear it means.
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Curtis obviously has a mental age of 34.
And when you do your 102, if you have a triple and do 34 on each chain ring, then you still get to be 34.
And when you do your 102, if you have a triple and do 34 on each chain ring, then you still get to be 34.
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I did 22 today, and that's how I feel on most days. Hmmm.... maybe I should just keep it at 22 for all my rides.
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Oh we may "act" our age-- being somewhat forgetful, holding reading matter a little farther out, pharting more frequently and with less restraint and more amusement, etc.........but it's just an "act". Inside, we're throbbing with life and youth and explosive power. Rarrfff.
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