You have Washington Heights Dominican bike racer guys in Illinois?

Once you get north of 25 mph average speed, a ride or race is pretty friggin fast in my experience. Fastest average speed in a NYC circuit race I ever got was 26.4 mph in Prospect Park for 40+ miles, fastest in a crit was like 28.5+.

lmao...Yeah, that happens yet it's STILL safer than Gimbel's. Gimbel's is so nuts at times. Some good riders but more ego than watts. The cuchifritos post ride though...

Damn, 25+ is fast (for me at least) for a closed-course crit for under an hour. They're doing that over 46 miles on open roads with stoplights, cars, ect. Our local "racer boy" group rides end up averaging around 21 when you take into account a couple of regroups and dealing with lights/signs. I would do absolutely 0 pulling on that Dallas ride and I'd still be spat out the back at some point.

From what I understood of the ride that day, some people took bigger than usual risks early on and set the tone for the day. For sure, it's usually a very fast ride, but I think people went a little extra crazy that day.

That's the real problem with a lot of fast group rides. They're always on public roads, and testosterone is just too big of a force to contain. There is a regular shop ride from the Dallas shop I worked at/build bikes at that goes to White Rock Lake. I lived in Arlington, so I wasn't usually able to stick around for the post work ride, but the few times I did make it, it was pretty brutal. And the worst part is that while most of the route was on lightly traveled roads around the lake, there were a couple of parts where we had to use MUP's to get from one side to the other and these guys would NOT slow down. So we ended up being the typical a-hole cyclists blowing past people with baby strollers, etc. Kind of the other major reason I rarely made the ride.

With my injury and the new job, moving, kid on the way, I am SO far off my cycling game, it's not even funny. Hopefully when things settle down after Christmas, I'll start to get back in the swing of things. I'm hoping that next winter I can test the waters with some CX, since I have the perfect bike now, and maybe by spring of 2017, I'll be able to attempt the faster weekend group rides.

Name brand smokes are about $8.50 here and $5.00 across the river.

I definitely need one of these for wrenching on bikes!

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I'm on the "young" side of things and first went to college in the "aughts' (early 2000's). I remember going to parties and later bars where people would be smoking like it was the 50's and I'm just thinking, "You know this is bad, right? I mean, not morally, but smoking has a big impact on your health, and we know this now."

Same age range and same experience, but I did go to college in New Orleans where nobody gives a shizz about doing things that don't kill you. I still have t-shirts that smell faintly of cigarettes from nights out there.

During a tour in Montana, British Columbia and Alberta we crossed the border at Roosville and re-entered the U.S. at Chief Mountain. The border agents at Chief Mountain were friendly young folks, and we got to talking. Can't remember how it came up, but they said Canadians like to come across to MT and bring back smokes and beer because of the cost differential. When we stayed at Pincher Creek I was surprised to see what a 12 pack of Molsen cost.

Geez, just thinking about it a little bit more, I realized that it was super popular to hang out in front of the dorms and smoke. You only have to be 18 to buy cigarettes, which is basically every college freshman. Then again, the people I knew who smoked out front were probably the types who were smoking before they were 18. :lol:

wonder what these guys were smokin in college

I smoked from 1993-2007.

Yea, I think in college the smoking thing is a bit of a social vehicle. People either are already doing it or pick it up because it gives them something to go outside and do together, and from what I remember of dorm life a lot of people met each other through bumming lighters or cigarettes off of strangers standing around the "smoking tables" that every dorm had out back.

Plus, a lot of girls (and some guys) used smoking to help keep their weight down, which is all kinds of stupid. I can't think of anything less attractive than cigarette breath and teeth.

i never understood that. when i smoked (10 yrs) i was 210lbs. i stopped and dropped down to 165 in less than a year, then few years later bikes happened and lost another 15

whats smoking supposed to do to keep you skinny? introduce you to friends with cocaine?

My understanding is that it numbs or reduces the sensitivity of taste buds. While smoking, food does not taste as good or have as much flavor. When a smoker stops smoking, the taste buds recover the sense of taste and food tastes much better. So, former smokers tend to eat more.

Appetite suppression? I was 125 lbs when I smoked and I'm 170 now. That is hardly the only factor though.

:)

New referral: uncontrolled epilepsy x 2 years.

Dog is on an inadequate dose of seizure medication, given at the wrong dosing schedule.

I explain this and what the correct dose should be and how we calculate the minimum dose based on the dog's weight. I say the words and also write them down on a piece of paper. Owner is confused, so I say them again and point to the words I have already written on the piece of paper. We do this several times.

Finally, the owner expresses concern because I am doubling the dog's dose of seizure medications.

I know, because the previous dose was inadequate and being given too infrequently. That's why his seizures have been uncontrolled x 2 years. I say this and also point at the words I wrote down on the paper.

Owner would like to negotiate the dose- give him more than he's getting now but less than I suggest.

I explain again how we figure out the dose and what it should be and that giving him less than the effective dose but more than he's getting now will also likely be ineffective.

Owner takes the piece of paper and says she will think about it.

:bang:

^^ Some people shouldn't be allowed to have pets.

Here's your problem:
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A week or so back I had a client who's 2015 income is way up from 2014 and I had to break the news to them that they will owe a lot more taxes.

They wanted to know if it would be a good idea to close their restaurant a few days a week to reduce their income in 2016 to save on taxes.

I guess if the goal is to not pay any taxes at all they could just close down shop completely and get a job at McDonald's. ...or they could just live with the fact that when you have two successful restaurants and make a lot of money you also have to pay the piper.

Maybe that's what I'll present to them. You can:

A) Live off of $30,000 for your family of 5

or

B) Live off of $300,000 after paying $150,000 in taxes

Owner didn't hear what the owner wanted to hear, so the information given was obviously incorrect.

Hah! Took me a second to get it.

Do y'all like this thing?

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I'm thinking of getting one.