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Sounds like fun. Care to elaborate?
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Was getting a mid ride coffee for a pick me up and when leaving the coffee shop, I found the guy trying to cut through the chain. Chased him down knocked him down held him on the ground while having his left arm pinned behind his back until the police came and got a confession.
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Appreciate the old bikes more than the new.
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Was getting a mid ride coffee for a pick me up and when leaving the coffee shop, I found the guy trying to cut through the chain. Chased him down knocked him down held him on the ground while having his left arm pinned behind his back until the police came and got a confession.
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Like a circus monkey on a stolen Harley......
Like a circus monkey on a stolen Harley......
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Not everyone knows how to apply an omaplata (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W5dVr-f9GU) you bad ass.
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Oma plata? Is that when a German grandmother hits you in the head with a plate for swearing?
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So you got it back once and the same cat tried to steal it again? I love it when a thief gets bagged. Good stuff.
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Was getting a mid ride coffee for a pick me up and when leaving the coffee shop, I found the guy trying to cut through the chain. Chased him down knocked him down held him on the ground while having his left arm pinned behind his back until the police came and got a confession.
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An Omaplata actually has it's roots in a traditional Brazilian dish of a Omelette Platter Latte.
It's both delicious and completely true!
It's both delicious and completely true!
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I'm new but you sound like you're drunk and dabble in BJJ.
Not everyone knows how to apply an omaplata (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W5dVr-f9GU) you bad ass.
Not everyone knows how to apply an omaplata (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W5dVr-f9GU) you bad ass.
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Like a circus monkey on a stolen Harley......
Like a circus monkey on a stolen Harley......
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This has been annoying me a lot lately. Is it "an LBS" or "a LBS"? I don't know if its supposed to be "a local bike store" or literally, "an el bee ess"
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It can mean us pounds, like 21 lbs. our it could mean local bike shop ( I recommend you visit the LBS to get fitted) It could mean lotsa bull squat ( I think your full of lbs ) It can also refer to loose bearing syndrome or load bearing stencils.
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I could put a kamora on some LBS's and make them tap like little girls.
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I'm not sure if this intentionally evaded my question or not but I meant is it a or an?
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I roll with "A". But to each his own.
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For the record.
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P.S. - - Why is it not incorrect to say/write "AN historic moment" even though the consonant 'h' is pronounced?
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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.
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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.
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P.S. - - Why is it not incorrect to say/write "AN historic moment" even though the consonant 'h' is pronounced?
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 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?
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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?
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It's a TDF/WTF . . . OMG.
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