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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 07-03-23, 07:31 PM
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
An olde Panasonic Mountain Cat with fishnet paint is one of my grail bikes.
I don't know what model it was, I just know I needed to give it back before I messed it up. I was thinking about it and another friend had some beater bikes we rode on the dirt back then. Also, my LBS guy had some beaters he would loan out for night rides in the hills and we would get pizza after. Good times.
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Originally Posted by DougRNS
It might surprise some of you but my 20 year old bike that was replaced by my Acid red CAAD 12 has 25 year old bottle cages. Never had a problem with them. I use my 15 year old water bottles when I ride. No muss no fuss. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.
I have a 35 year old cage in my parts bin. It's white to match the original color of the Schwinn. Might put it back on the Schwinn for the next incarnation.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Damn, my new browser doesn't show the twitters, might have to check the settings. The Seattle Mariners ain't gettin' nothin' done, so I assume it must be some Diamondbacks news...
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
I dunno if I'm brave enough to order straight from Panasonic, unless they have an English language website hidden somewhere
It's only 450,000 yen for the ti frame.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
I have a 35 year old cage in my parts bin. It's white to match the original color of the Schwinn. Might put it back on the Schwinn for the next incarnation.
I have a couple of 60s and 70s cages out in the garage bit too hot to go visit them now.

This is the oldest one I have in the house. Must be about 30 years old. It's actually bright yellow under that ivory crust

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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
Damn, my new browser doesn't show the twitters, might have to check the settings. The Seattle Mariners ain't gettin' nothin' done, so I assume it must be some Diamondbacks news...
Nope.

TweetDeck lists haven't worked the last two days. This evening when I fired it up they gave me the garbage new version. SMH
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Originally Posted by DougRNS
It might surprise some of you but my 20 year old bike that was replaced by my Acid red CAAD 12 has 25 year old bottle cages. Never had a problem with them. I use my 15 year old water bottles when I ride. No muss no fuss. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.
The last pair of bottles I had before the Camelbaks were single wall and the side of one started leaking. It had worn thin from the cage and it just broke through.

The Camelbak bottles are the best I've used. I've had them for years, (10, maybe?) and they seal perfectly. I'd buy them again if these ever wear out.

I broke a lot of cages, though.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
I have a couple of 60s and 70s cages out in the garage bit too hot to go visit them now.

This is the oldest one I have in the house. Must be about 30 years old. It's actually bright yellow under that ivory crust

I had one of them on my old mtb when I sold it. I filed slots in it to make the pump mount fit better.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Nope.

TweetDeck lists haven't worked the last two days. This evening when I fired it up they gave me the garbage new version. SMH
Oooh, I've read some complaints about the new Tweetdeck, but haven't looked at it yet.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Real Americans doing real work. Whether that’s hot dog guy or the security is up to you.

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Damn, my new browser doesn't show the twitters, might have to check the settings. The Seattle Mariners ain't gettin' nothin' done, so I assume it must be some Diamondbacks news...
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Nope.

TweetDeck lists haven't worked the last two days. This evening when I fired it up they gave me the garbage new version. SMH
That’s weird - the last couple days I’m seeing all of the Twitter and YouTube posts. For the last year or so, I couldn’t see them.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
Oooh, I've read some complaints about the new Tweetdeck, but haven't looked at it yet.
It's a downgrade from the original.

Previously when it appeared I could switch back to the olde, but not tonight.
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Went to my in laws to watch the Tour. 650 channels and not one of them had the Tour.
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Slow morning, everyone must be watching YouTube classic rock videos. Except Vol, he is watching the life story of John Philip Sousa. Probably.
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Originally Posted by DougRNS
Slow morning, everyone must be watching YouTube classic rock videos. Except Vol, he is watching the life story of John Philip Sousa. Probably.
Nope.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Nope.
please don't tell me you're creating mayhem on your tweetdeck. SMH
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I'm thinking about getting dog tags again. Should I get it, yes or no and why. Go.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Nope.
I'm enjoying coffee and waiting for a window of opportunity to ride my bike. Also going to try out my new burr grinder on some coffee beans.
#CoffeeIsEssential
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I think you may be too old to re-enlist, at this point.
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I think you may be too old to re-enlist, at this point.
I thought 60 was the new 30? Guess not.
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I thought 60 was the new 30? Guess not.
I think 60 is the new 60.
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I think 60 is the new 60.
I agree. Whoever came up with that BS probably was 30 not 60.
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In other old people news, I think I'm going to wuss out on the Mt Baldy ride this morning. At least 6 from my club are going but at least 2 will be on e-bikes and the others are way faster climbers than I am. It's not like a hilly ride where I can gain on downhills or they wait at the tops of climbs, it's a steady climb (one little descent) where the climbers just keep going. I'm really on the fence because I like the ride a lot but I'm not recovered from the weekend. I don't mind climbing by myself but I don't want to struggle.
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I think 60 is the new 60.
Some days it even feels like 60 is the new 67.
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