Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets (Post 19555234)

Oooh, new steel full squish

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Originally Posted by sbxx1985 (Post 19555380)

Magnesium is hot.

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Originally Posted by Heathpack (Post 19556486)

Recovery ride with coffee this am. :)

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Originally Posted by Dan333SP (Post 19556497)

Kudos! I do always chuckle when people leave their helmets on in the cafe. It's the first thing I want to remove when I get off the bike.

Originally Posted by WhyFi (Post 19556448)

Nice. Yeah, sometimes I think that it might be a good idea to fly the flag a little more just see what happens, but I don't have much cycling-related apparel that's appropriate off the bike. Something I shall have to remedy, I guess.

Originally Posted by Heathpack (Post 19556486)

Recovery ride with coffee this am. :)

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Originally Posted by datlas (Post 19556001)

Getting ready to ride. There is a little controversy brewing with my "Usual Suspects" Wednesday group ride. Some of the newer riders are race-oriented and tend to push the pace. My goal is to have fun but I don't mind pushing it a little. I typically try to set the pace to what's reasonable for the (relatively) weakest rider who shows up. In other words, I aim for a relatively civilized pace. One of the other guys (who is actually a strong rider but does not want to push the pace) gets annoyed when no "slow" riders show up and the pace is arguably a bit on the fast side.

There may end up being a schism, but what's the point of breaking a group ride into two when there are only ten riders??

Originally Posted by Heathpack (Post 19556510)

It's a woman hair thing. Note my helmet is off because I always carry a cycling cap with me on these coffee rides.

Originally Posted by Velo Vol (Post 19556406)

For what purpose?

Originally Posted by rjones28 (Post 19556152)

I think we can blame [MENTION=406877]PepeM[/MENTION].

Originally Posted by Heathpack (Post 19556510)

It's a woman hair thing. Note my helmet is off because I always carry a cycling cap with me on these coffee rides.

Originally Posted by seedsbelize (Post 19556263)

Stallion urine, however, smells of fine pipe tobacco.

Originally Posted by Heathpack (Post 19556510)

It's a woman hair thing. Note my helmet is off because I always carry a cycling cap with me on these coffee rides.

Originally Posted by Heathpack (Post 19556481)

Speaking of sailing, some friends of ours just completed a 4043 nm passage in their sailboat- same type of boat we have but two sizes up.

Panama to Fatu Hivu in French Polynesia. Took them 25 days to make the passage.

Always nice when someone makes to jump to see them stick the landing!

Originally Posted by jtaylor996 (Post 19556545)

For you car guys:

Live stream of Alonso's test at indy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXh9...ature=youtu.be

Originally Posted by Scarbo (Post 19556115)

Anyway, it's been fun people. But, it is time for me to move on from this incestuous little convocation. Those that can do; those that can't waste away hours on internet fora--to paraphrase G.B.S. Billy is hammering me. Again. He's sort of had it out for me from the beginning for some curious reason. And, I just don't want to deal with another of his strange PMs (he thought I would be embarrassed if he had scolded me in public! Not!).

OK. You can pull the plug on me anytime you see fit, Bigdog. Ciao! I got riding to do.

Originally Posted by Trsnrtr (Post 19556528)

Been through this a zillion times over the last 35 years. My current retired racer group is experiencing this at the moment. Caterpillar Tractor forced early retirement on a lot of people in the 55+ age group and they are now showing up wanting to push hard. Some of our veteran guys are a very fit 70+ but aren't going to keep up when a 55er tries to blow the group apart.

We've yet to come up with a solution. :(

Originally Posted by Dan333SP (Post 19556537)

That makes sense. A male friend of mine recently posted photos of a coffee stop and 2 out of 3 of them (all guys) were wearing helmets.

They claim that since it was on a patio, they were "still outside" and didn't need to take the helmets off. Seems to be the makings of a good thread with a poll question regarding when to remove a helmet.

Originally Posted by Dan333SP (Post 19556550)

Thanks! Not sure I like the all-orange livery they chose. The current black/orange look on the F1 car is nicer, IMO.

Originally Posted by Trsnrtr (Post 19556528)

Been through this a zillion times over the last 35 years. My current retired racer group is experiencing this at the moment. Caterpillar Tractor forced early retirement on a lot of people in the 55+ age group and they are now showing up wanting to push hard. Some of our veteran guys are a very fit 70+ but aren't going to keep up when a 55er tries to blow the group apart.

We've yet to come up with a solution. :(

Originally Posted by jtaylor996 (Post 19556589)

That's McLaren's color that they're kind of known for. IIRC rookies at the 500 have to wear special stickers on the back indicating they're noobs on race day. That'll be interesting. I wonder how much condescending advice Rossi is giving Alonso :lol:

Right now alonso is going through some certification program. He's has to keep it in speed ranges. He's like 30mph off of quali pace right now.

Originally Posted by Dan333SP (Post 19556611)

Yea, it is "their" thing, it just looks awkward on that Indy chassis. It's already a fiddly car with the pontoon things they run to protect the rear wheels, but making it nothing but orange exaggerates that.

He got some seriously condescending advice from PT and Townsend during the broadcast from Barber, i was laughing pretty hard while watching. I know it was well-intentioned, but come on. This is probably one of the greatest drivers of all time getting advice from Fat Paul.