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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 06-03-18, 06:56 PM
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Originally Posted by noodle soup
$1 spent, for every gram saved, sounds reasonable.
That used to be my general yardstick if faced with a choice of which part to buy. I'm less concerned now, as I could lose 15 lb off my arse if I drank less beer, and it would cost me nothing.
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Originally Posted by Litespud
That used to be my general yardstick if faced with a choice of which part to buy. I'm less concerned now, as I could lose 15 lb off my arse if I drank less beer, and it would cost me nothing.
If I lost 15 pounds, I'd be 20 pounds underweight.
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Originally Posted by noodle soup
If I lost 15 pounds, I'd be 20 pounds underweight.
What is your current height and weight?
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6’2” 168lbs
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Originally Posted by Brandonyatessr
I'll just loose the half pound of fat.
Statistics say you're a lot more likely to gain it back than your wheels are.
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Originally Posted by noodle soup
6’2” 168lbs
By which/whose arbitrary metric is that considered underweight?
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Originally Posted by joejack951
By which/whose arbitrary metric is that considered underweight?
he didn't say that it was.
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
he didn't say that it was.
15 - 20 = -5

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Originally Posted by joejack951
15 - 20 = -5

Ah - I inverted the numbers. Pre-coffee, ya know.
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
Ah - I inverted the numbers. Pre-coffee, ya know.
I've been 6'2" and 153. It's not a good look. Since adding muscle mass, my speed has increased.
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Originally Posted by noodle soup
I've been 6'2" and 153. It's not a good look.
I bet.
edit: but don't tell that to @datlas

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Originally Posted by WhyFi
I bet.
edit: but don't tell that to @datlas

I resemble that comment.

You guys are all too fat for this sport.
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Originally Posted by datlas
You guys are all too fat for this sport.
Well, I can't speak for anyone else, but duh.
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Originally Posted by rpenmanparker
That has always been my standard.
I consider it the average slope of the cost-benefit curve.
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
I bet.
edit: but don't tell that to @datlas

4 years ago I was hit by a truck, and spent 36 days in the hospital. I went from 173 pounds, down to 140.

When I got back on the bike, 13mph was hard to maintain for an hour on flatland.
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