Affliction
04-21-26 | 09:21 PM
#1951
I climb a lot
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From: NorCal
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After KCB I stopped at the petrol station. As I'm standing there, out of the blue, the guy on the other side of the pump asks me if I know why food is so addictive.
wut
He got into a little spiel about how cigarette companies took over food companies and made stuff addictive.
I don't know about the cigarette company part, but it's obviously true that process food is engineered so people buy more.
Anyway, in closing he called me "Big Dog."
Can someone in the 145-150 range qualify as "Big Dog?"
wut
He got into a little spiel about how cigarette companies took over food companies and made stuff addictive.
I don't know about the cigarette company part, but it's obviously true that process food is engineered so people buy more.
Anyway, in closing he called me "Big Dog."
Can someone in the 145-150 range qualify as "Big Dog?"
04-22-26 | 04:12 AM
#1952
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04-22-26 | 07:22 AM
#1953
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Maybe I should close this one and start a new one. That seems to rekindle interest. Let’s call it Confliction.
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04-22-26 | 09:49 AM
#1956
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I think this is one of his from the traffic days.
https://youtu.be/jwQ42ah9v9I?si=W6_yqjlIBm***Hkg
https://youtu.be/jwQ42ah9v9I?si=W6_yqjlIBm***Hkg
04-22-26 | 11:17 AM
#1957
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From: Malvern, PA (20 miles West of Philly)
Bikes: 1986 Alpine (steel road bike), 2009 Ti Habenero, 2013 Specialized Roubaix
The weather said cloudy with a possible passing sprinkle, so we went on the ride. After 5 miles it started raining fairly heavily. At the rest stop we were already soaked and shivering. We took a shortcut home but the ride home was shivery, wet, and not much fun. Although I was wearing a long sleeve “windbreaker” this was not waterproof and with temps around 50 I was flirting with hypothermia. My three friends were such troopers, I expect they were as cold as I was, but no one complained.
Mother Nature is indeed a cruel mistress, especially when she pokes her thumb in the eye of the weather forecast.
Mother Nature is indeed a cruel mistress, especially when she pokes her thumb in the eye of the weather forecast.
04-22-26 | 11:22 AM
#1958
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04-22-26 | 11:40 AM
#1959
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04-22-26 | 11:44 AM
#1960
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I stop for lunch today and while eating outside, because unlike @datlas, my day was sunshine and 75º but I digress, I notice I have no tool/tube/repair bag on my bike. Oh-oh. Made it back to the car but the bad feelings are there that something will happen.
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04-22-26 | 11:47 AM
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04-22-26 | 11:47 AM
#1963
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04-22-26 | 11:51 AM
#1964
Gruppetto Bob
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Got through another 3 yards yesterday with 10 yards to go. I am surrendering to getting help for the last 10 since our property is on a hill and pushing up hill with a wheelbarrow may be good for the legs and cardio, but is definitely not a good time - and the back agrees.
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04-22-26 | 11:54 AM
#1965
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Since I cannot always trust my memory to switch tool bags between bikes, each bike has one. It’s bad enough when riding in the winter and driving the bike to a remote location to remember all the gear/kit.
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04-22-26 | 11:56 AM
#1966
Gruppetto Bob
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04-22-26 | 12:10 PM
#1967
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04-22-26 | 12:13 PM
#1968
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Yep. I rode an old bike a week ago and rather than set up a bag, I grabbed the one off this bike. Forgot to replace it.
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04-22-26 | 12:43 PM
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From: In the foothills of Los Angeles County
Spolier
Fleche Wallonne Femmes, "I don't want to have any rrrree-grrrrettes".
Très mignon
https://youtube.com/shorts/FGr0Fwb1m...NMnGCCWuDPfRst
Fleche Wallonne Femmes, "I don't want to have any rrrree-grrrrettes".
Très mignon
https://youtube.com/shorts/FGr0Fwb1m...NMnGCCWuDPfRst
04-22-26 | 12:48 PM
#1972
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The ONE THING I will tend to forget is bottles, because if I'm going to drink a sports drink, I often make up the bottles and put them in the fridge to keep cool. One time I got 7 miles into a ride on a hot day, found I'd forgotten bottles and had to go home and fetch them - not gonna ride 4 hours with temps in the 80s with no water!
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04-22-26 | 02:55 PM
#1973
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No. 1 public market in the country? You guessed it. I’ve got another shift there on Saturday.
https://readingterminalmarket.org/
https://readingterminalmarket.org/
04-22-26 | 03:28 PM
#1975
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From: Malvern, PA (20 miles West of Philly)
Bikes: 1986 Alpine (steel road bike), 2009 Ti Habenero, 2013 Specialized Roubaix
No. 1 public market in the country? You guessed it. I’ve got another shift there on Saturday.
https://readingterminalmarket.org/
https://readingterminalmarket.org/