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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 10-09-17, 06:37 AM
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
You had a set, too, right? Did you ever get them installed? I don't recall seeing a pic.
No beauty shot of the Fuji with the new bits.

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Originally Posted by datlas
Rain incoming!
Not going to be that bad in the city. You should get more.
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Originally Posted by datlas
Rain incoming!
Does this mean VeloVol is back on the road?
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I mentioned John Lennon in relation to Cold Turkey. Not technically a Beatles song, but if it was it would be my favorite.
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Originally Posted by seedsbelize
John Lennon
I wish there were a sad bday icon, it's his birthday and I miss him.
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Originally Posted by indyfabz
Not going to be that bad in the city. You should get more.
Maybe. It's super heavy right now. Apparently it's the remnant of TS Nate.
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Originally Posted by datlas
Today's club ride is 64 miles. Does it sound better if I call it a metric century?
Quadruple Metric Quarter Century.
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Originally Posted by indyfabz
Wake up everybody. No more sleepin' in bed.
The world has changed so very much
From what it used to be
There is so much hatred war an' poverty.
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Originally Posted by BillyD
The world has changed so very much
From what it used to be
There is so much hatred war an' poverty.
I hope we can make the world great again. Sigh.
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Originally Posted by seedsbelize
John Lennon
No, John Legend.
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Originally Posted by indyfabz
"Wake Up Everybody" was written by John Whitehead, Gene McFadden and Victor Carstraphen. (The first two were the duo who later brought us "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now." In 2004 Whitehead was murdered in broad daylight outside his Philadelphia home by unknown gunmen. The case remains unsolved. McFadden died of lung cancer a few years later.) It was first recorded by Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, the front man for whom was, of course, the late, great Teddy Pendergrass, who would be paralyzed in a car accident while allegedly fooling around with his transvestite mistress.

Your mention of John Lennon is interesting. The chorus of the song actually takes issue with a Beatles song: "The world won't get no better if we just let it be."
John Legend made a recent version.

Hated Pendegrass, just didn't like his style. Interesting that his heartthrob, ladies man image concealed, perhaps, an alternate sexual preference.
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Originally Posted by seedsbelize
I mentioned John Lennon in relation to Cold Turkey. Not technically a Beatles song, but if it was it would be my favorite.
Oh.

Nevermind then.
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Originally Posted by datlas
I wish there were a sad bday icon, it's his birthday and I miss him.
It's his birthday? Today? Kismet.
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Originally Posted by BillyD
Hated Pendegrass, just didn't like his style. Interesting that his heartthrob, ladies man image concealed, perhaps, an alternate sexual preference.
Reported!


The accident occurred on Lincoln Drive, which is a serpentine road with some very tight curves that people drive way too fast on. Teddy slammed his Rolls into a tree. Tenika Watson (she was and is a post-op transgendered person) denies anything was going on in the car.
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Originally Posted by datlas
Maybe. It's super heavy right now. Apparently it's the remnant of TS Nate.
It decided to start raining just as I left the house to walk to work, but it was never hard. According to Accu Weather, the bulk of the rain will be north and west of the city.
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Happy Thanksgiving
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Day off work and Santa Ana winds today.

Might be a MUP KOM opportunity.

Alert the Freds.
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Originally Posted by sbxx1985
I sold her this morning.
How much did you get?
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Pendergrass is such an interesting name. There are maybe a million spelling variations like Prendergast, Pendergrast, Prendergrass, Pender, Pendergast, Pendergrass, Penders, Pendy, Pinder, Pinders, Pindy, Prender, Prendergrast, Prendergest, Prindergast, Pendergist and so on. I wonder why it is so hard to get it right.
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Originally Posted by RPK79
How much did you get?
Used Campy cables and housing.
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Originally Posted by sbxx1985
Used Campy cables and housing.
Kudos!
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Originally Posted by rjones28
Maybe, Shimano XTs.
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I'd go Shimano IceTech. The 99s.
These ones? 160mm front and 140mm rear?

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Originally Posted by WhyFi
You had a set, too, right? Did you ever get them installed? I don't recall seeing a pic.
One thing about the kit spec; They include FD/RD specific shift cables. The front cable was too short for my cable routing.
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Old 10-09-17, 08:26 AM
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Originally Posted by sbxx1985
I have nothing to add as far as components go, but they look cool.
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Originally Posted by datlas
Rain incoming!
We probably should have brought these in.

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