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Old 10-13-07, 07:02 AM
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24" or 26"?
I am looking for a bike online but just wondering I should choose 24" OR 26", my height is 5"6, 140 pounds.
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Old 10-13-07, 07:05 AM
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Another one from the Troll Academy
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Buy one of each and sell the one you don't like. Get them at WalMart, they have cheap bikes.
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Perhaps you will find your answer in General cycling.

Depends upon what kind of riding you are doing.
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Oh stop being so 'nice' for once and have a yuk, yuk!
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How about a Yak instead?

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How about a Yak instead?

Looks like my old teacher
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So your teacher was bow legged, huh? Hehe.
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So your teacher was bow legged, huh? Hehe.
And about six hundred pounds
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Originally Posted by Siu Blue Wind
How about a Yak instead?

when you can't yuk, yak is cool too.
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30 inch. But only because you weigh 140 lbs.

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I say you should ride 650b.
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Forget that pansy crap. Roll 60s or roll home, beyotch.



Straight-up old-school, holmes.
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Straight-up olde-school, holmes.
Fixed it for ya
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Fixed it for ya
Thank you, kind sir.

Also, I just noticed that that Hummer-wannabe ******mobile up there has the original-sized spare hanging off the back. A-durr. Get a brain, moran.
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Forget that pansy crap. Roll 60s or roll home, beyotch.

Straight-up old-school, holmes.
I'm sorry X. But no matter how hard you try, you just CAN'T be ghetto.


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Also, I just noticed that that Hummer-wannabe ******mobile up there has the original-sized spare hanging off the back. A-durr. Get a brain, moran.
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who ya callin' a moran?
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Wow, a thread got moved out of Foo. If Foo is the garbage bin of the site, this must be recycling!
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I'm sorry X. But no matter how hard you try, you just CAN'T be ghetto.
Word for shizzle, yo. *throws up gang signs*

Yee-uh.
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Wow. Since Jon left you've been sorta.....ya know........pink....
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Aw, hell no. You betta rekinize, S-dawg. Fo' real. Don't make me get all crazy up in this *****.
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Aw, hell no. You betta rekinize, S-dawg. Fo' real. Don't make me get all crazy up in this *****.

Well at least you got one of my bikes right.
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Wow, a thread got moved out of Foo. If Foo is the garbage bin of the site, this must be recycling!
Yes! There is a God and she is kind.
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