A rapper as well? Ahhh a man of many trades! I can respect that, yo.

Well, I don't like to brag.............

I'm not sure if this intentionally evaded my question or not :lol: but I meant is it a or an?

I roll with "A". But to each his own.

If you are saying it conversationally, it would be "an LBS" - - 'an' before the vowel-sound 'ell'; if you are writing it, technically, it would be "a LBS" because LBS is shorthand for the consonant-sound start of Local. But we all talk conversationally here anyway, so it doesn't matter really.

For the record.

Signed,
Your Editor

P.S. - - Why is it not incorrect to say/write "AN historic moment" even though the consonant 'h' is pronounced?

It would be "a LBS" as in "a local bike shop" instead of "an local bike shop" which when said, sounds off.

The basic rule for "a" or "an" use is, use "a" in front of anything that starts with a consonant "That's a banana." or "That's a bike."

Use "an" in front of any word that starts with a vowel. "That's an apple." or "That's an omaplata, *you bad ass!"

If you were too switch the rule around...

a apple
a omaplata
an banana
an bike

You can probably "hear" how it sounds funny, and that's why.

* mtnbiker66 I'm just joking. Breaking stones.

You beat me to the punch by 5 minutes. I lost valuable time in the middle of my reply by getting coffee.

It looks like we're best friends now.

You want to get together and read books about mountain biking? Or mountain bike over a buncha books?

P.S.S. - - Why is it correct to say/write "AN hour" even though the consonant "h" is pronounced?

I understand the whole a/an thing, just more of when you type LBS are you literally typing LBS or just abbreviating local bike shop? Which do you think when you type it?

And we've hit an all time low here on the Mountain Bike forums. It always seems to coincide with the TDF. What gives?

You pronounce the 'h' in hour? Do you pronounce honorable as "hawn'orable?" :lol:

I told you . . . don't you read?

It's a TDF/WTF . . . OMG.

Ahhh man.

I forgot to add "not" before pronounced. Not pronounced, even though it's not pronounced is what I meant.

You win this time.

Oops. Yeah.

Whats wrong? Don't you appreciate the thrill and excitement of discussing the ins and outs
of the English language? :D

"What's wrong?"

I vote bacon!!!!

Local LBS starting carrying Pivot bikes. Thinking hard 'bout a Mach 5 frame for a winter project to replace my beloved Stumpy. Anyone got any seat time on one?

I like salad........

With bacon bits!

Oh yes...let's swill some brandy in our man-panties and discuss present participles.

Haven't been around much lately mostly been lurking over in the TdF threads, I got a new road bike to replace the to small Bianchi. 86 Cannondale with beat ass blue pain that I think I am just going to leave as is. I need to install my headset and run cables and it will be rideable. After that I need to find some tubulars that are more that 18c wide and don't cost 75 a pop and glue them up.
That said
T minus 5 days until I head to Breckenridge. It will be my friend's first time mountain in the actual mountains. Should be a good time.

You mean people actually do that?

Crazy right.

have fun man!

Thank you b2b.
I forgot to mention it, but 2 weeks ago I wen OTB on to some concrete slabs used to make up a creek crossing and scraped and possibly split my chin pretty good. I say possibly because I had a pretty good beard going at the time. Fast forward to 3 days ago and I could feel the scab/dead skin combo ready to come off. Along with it came a nice big chuck of my beard and I had a nice bald spot on the left of my chin. So I shaved. Does anybody know how long it might take to get that spot to grow back. I have a pretty good bit of stubble back but it still doesn't look right.

Was just there a couple months ago. Cool area with lots more trails than I had time to hunt down and ride. Get a map from one of the shops. If you're looking for a fun little after-dinner jaunt, hunt down the Mule Trail. Nice and rocky.

Oh, and hoist a brew with a burger down the road at the Dillon Dam Brewery. Give us a report when ya get back.

Rain drops keep falling on my head.

Still?

Oops. You got me.

:roflmao2::roflmao2:

Just spent a week near Pisgah. Without a bike. Story of my life. But on the bright side, I'll be spending two weeks in Colorado with a bike. Specifically, I'm going to be in the San Jwans (3 hours north west or so of Durango) any recomondations? I'm going to be in Durango on friday (in 6 days).

Seems like it.

And I took a bit of a hard hit to my left shoulder today in a fall from the dmr.