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Road Cycling “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” -- Ernest Hemingway

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Old 04-26-15, 05:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Herbie53
My house was on the market for all of about 12 hours total. Offers came in quickly. We sorted the best, most likely to succeed and now I am going to be out of here by the week of May 20.

Texas awaits.
nice!

should be down there just in time for the heat
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Originally Posted by RUOkie
nice!

should be down there just in time for the heat
Hey, welcome back! Hotel Addiction.

yeah, we are working on a design to mitigate summer down there...

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Originally Posted by Ramona_W
We rode down to the Farmers' Market where we bought an outstanding cup of joe for $1 and some red and yellow potatoes and green, as opposed to purple, asparagus. As LoP was locking up the bike, a woman walking by said to her friends "That's what Christie always wanted. So she could sit on the back and eat Cheetos." That's what I'm supposed to be doing? How come nobody told me?
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Originally Posted by mvnsnd
I agree, and I like to ride hard and push myself. When I first joined this group, they asked me, in a humorous way, "what is cycling?" I replied 'cycling is suffering' and the laughter I got told me I was with a good group.
+1,000 This is my approach as well. Yesterday was my hard and fast group ride, several hard efforts and was cooked at the end. I was planning on an easy ride with my wife today, but she surprised me and gave me the free pass to ride. Rather than ride with the A group in the "hills" and stay in the red most of the ride, a friend and I did 41 miles with about 2,000 ft elevation only 1 mph slower than the A group looking at their numbers later. Yeah, I know, 2,000 ft is nothing to you climbers, but at 190 lbs, they kick my butt since I don't do them often enough. I'm sure @Heathpack is chuckling at these epic climbs.
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Originally Posted by Trsnrtr
I usually hear 'read a book' or 'putting on makeup.'
I actually freshened up my lip color after brunch and before remounting the bike yesterday. For some reason this made LoP burst out laughing and he said he was going to put it in his ride report.
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Originally Posted by Ramona_W
I actually freshened up my lip color after brunch and before remounting the bike yesterday. For some reason this made LoP burst out laughing and he said he was going to put it in his ride report.
...with the Cheetohs, you can probably just go with the orange, and shave some weight by leaving the lipstick at home.
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Originally Posted by Herbie53
My house was on the market for all of about 12 hours total. Offers came in quickly. We sorted the best, most likely to succeed and now I am going to be out of here by the week of May 20.

Texas awaits.
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Originally Posted by Ramona_W
I actually freshened up my lip color after brunch and before remounting the bike yesterday. For some reason this made LoP burst out laughing and he said he was going to put it in his ride report.
Love it.
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Originally Posted by LAJ
I have paid my dues. Snow, rain, pestilence, stuff. I pick my battles a little more wisely now.
Not judging.
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Originally Posted by Ramona_W
I actually freshened up my lip color after brunch and before remounting the bike yesterday. For some reason this made LoP burst out laughing and he said he was going to put it in his ride report.
My wife and I have done a lot of tandem rallies and tours over the last 30 years and I've seen some pretty dolled up stokers with makeup and jewelry.
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Old 04-26-15, 06:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Herbie53
My house was on the market for all of about 12 hours total. Offers came in quickly. We sorted the best, most likely to succeed and now I am going to be out of here by the week of May 20.

Texas awaits.
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Originally Posted by Ramona_W
So she could sit on the back and eat Cheetos." That's what I'm supposed to be doing? How come nobody told me?
Lester is a meanie.

I knew it all along.
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Originally Posted by 3alarmer
Having said that, there really are too many people here, so you should only visit and spend money, immigration is not to be encouraged.
Unless they bring water with them, of course.
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Originally Posted by Herbie53
Hey, welcome back! Hotel Addiction.

yeah, we are working on a design to mitigate summer down there...

that will indeed help
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Old 04-26-15, 06:54 PM
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That's best.
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Originally Posted by Herbie53
My house was on the market for all of about 12 hours total. Offers came in quickly. We sorted the best, most likely to succeed and now I am going to be out of here by the week of May 20.

Texas awaits.
That's great. You will arrive just in time for the hot weather. Welcome. Misery loves company.
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Time to nourish my nerd side. #GameOfThrones
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My wife's FB feed has a pretty healthy thread going on salt water chlorinator vs. chlorine vs. other stuff going on.

Right now our lead case is an ozone generator with chlorine. it would make an awesome BF science and engineering thread.. if BF had a pools section.
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My wife's FB feed has a pretty healthy thread going on salt water chlorinator vs. chlorine vs. other stuff going on.

Right now our lead case is an ozone generator with chlorine. it would make an awesome BF science and engineering thread.. if BF had a pools section.
My neighbor for many years had a salt water chlorinator that seemed to work pretty well.
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Originally Posted by rpenmanparker
My neighbor for many years had a salt water chlorinator that seemed to work pretty well.
Was my lead case after swimming in one after a ride last summer, but then I read up on some of the cons.

Great to swim in, not so great to own.
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Originally Posted by Herbie53
Was my lead case after swimming in one after a ride last summer, but then I read up on some of the cons.

Great to swim in, not so great to own.
Your info is much more complete than mine. Sounds like you will have a good basis for your decision.
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Originally Posted by patentcad
Little dead Corvette.

You kilt it already?

#prolly
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Originally Posted by patentcad
Little dead Corvette.

Wut.

BTW speaking of cars, my dad's Mercedes is a 1986 not 1983. He said it's a 560. Sound possible?
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Originally Posted by patentcad
Little dead Corvette.

That didn't take long.
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