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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 11-16-16, 02:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Why don't you wear an apron?
Never saw the need.
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Old 11-16-16, 04:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Dan333SP
It's probably something stupid and literal like "Ear Trumpet".
Prolly.
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Old 11-16-16, 04:20 PM
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Originally Posted by WalksOn2Wheels
Oh no doubt about it. Truthfully, with enough motivation I could make myself get to bed earlier (I'm more of a night owl) and still do the early A.M. rides. Motivation is just lacking when life feels like a constant beat down.

I'll eventually get it sorted. I just keep telling myself that the kids will figure out sleep sooner rather than later and a more predictable schedule will help me out. I think the most annoying part is that weekends are so packed right now, that weekend rides rarely happen.
"Children change everything" is definitely real. Been awhile, mine are now 50 and 52, but there's no forgetting that transitional experience. It was certainly worth it. And the "payback" of watching it happen them was really kinda fun...
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Old 11-16-16, 04:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
OK, just noticed that the Windows volume control was set on mute.

Crisis ended.
I have to give you credit for having the guts to post that up.
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Originally Posted by Bah Humbug
I have to give you credit for having the guts to post that up.
Hey, I publicly embarrassed myself about daylight savings time a couple weeks ago, he's just joining the club.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
ATTN @rjones28 :

Crucial Specialized shop apron $35 shipped. On the Classic MTB Trading Center group on FB.




Do they have less Pink, more manly version?
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Old 11-16-16, 05:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Trsnrtr
Leaving for a ride after my dishwasher quits (another story for another time) and I WILL be wearing ear buds. Pollyannas and worry-warts can bite me.
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Originally Posted by Dan333SP
It'd be unfortunate if someone mistook that for a pipe and got earwax in their mouth.
I get earwax in my mouth alla time. At my age I consider that lucky.
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Originally Posted by rpenmanparker
Who is old enough to know what it is called?
Hearing aid,
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Originally Posted by Dan333SP
Hey, I publicly embarrassed myself about daylight savings time a couple weeks ago, he's just joining the club.
I bared enough soul during my dating struggles to last me the rest of my life here.
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Originally Posted by ltxi
Hearing aid,
Be a hipster and call it a steampunk hearing aid.
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Originally Posted by Bah Humbug
Be a hipster and call it a steampunk hearing aid.

Is hipster a kinda like modern day hippie? No matter, even hippie was pretty much after my time, and it's a damn hearing aid.
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Old 11-16-16, 05:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Bah Humbug
I bared enough soul during my dating struggles to last me the rest of my life here.
But it was cool watching you grow up.
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Originally Posted by LAJ
But it was cool watching you grow up.

Same thing I said to my wife.
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The noon news said snow might start tonight. They've preemptively sprayed de-icer on the main roads.
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Originally Posted by ltxi
Do they have less Pink, more manly version?
Is there a colour more manly than pink?
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Old 11-16-16, 06:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Bah Humbug
I have to give you credit for having the guts to post that up.
To the outsider that might seem like a facepalm but I'm quite sure I checked that setting during an earlier episode.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
Never saw the need.
It's an indicator that you have graduated from apprentice mechanic.
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Imagine living somewhere where it snowed before Thanksgiving. I would die.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Imagine living somewhere where it snowed before Thanksgiving. I would die.
Imagine living somewhere where it snowed before the end of time. I would die.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
Is there a colour more manly than pink?

Not if you're a Brit.
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Originally Posted by ltxi
Not if you're a Brit.
Is that what's wrong with Lester? No way!
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Originally Posted by rpenmanparker
Is that what's wrong with Lester? No way!

Didn't say it was wrong. Brits are just more secure in their personhood than 'mericans and can wear whatever colour strikes their fancy without concern/fear.
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Originally Posted by ltxi
Didn't say it was wrong. Brits are just more secure in their personhood than 'mericans and can wear whatever colour strikes their fancy without concern/fear.
I wear pink. And salmon, too.
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Originally Posted by ltxi
Didn't say it was wrong. Brits are just more secure in their personhood than 'mericans and can wear whatever colour strikes their fancy without concern/fear.
There is a reason for that. The Brits sent the Puritans over here and have been laughing about it ever since. No wonder we are so screwed up on this side of the pond.
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