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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 05-08-07, 01:38 PM
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I wear many hats.
So you're Bartholomew Cubbins?
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Old 05-08-07, 01:38 PM
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Wow......where is the "motherland"?
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You own a Giant?
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Great shots! I haven't been to France in a few years and I'm jonesing for it right now.
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Oh man, I've got to get out to the Pyrenees. Amazing stuff, botto
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Old 05-08-07, 02:03 PM
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Wow......where is the "motherland"?
I think you're in the middle of it.
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You own a Giant?
Oui.
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I think you're in the middle of it.
Oui.
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Old 05-08-07, 02:24 PM
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Oui,
the new correct
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peut-être.
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Old 05-08-07, 02:27 PM
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Oui,
the new correct
Mais bien sur.

Edit: Ou peut-etre. D'oh.
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Thanks for the pics, botto. It must have been a great trip.
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wait, so you're telling me you put a cycling trip ahead of posting on bf?
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You suck... If you really had some balls, you'd climb the Col in the gear your bike pic was in.
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Old 05-08-07, 02:54 PM
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You suck... If you really had some balls, you'd climb the Col in the gear your bike pic was in.
If had balls I probably could.
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Once again....

Jealous.
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Let me guess...the one in pink is an American? What's the deal with all the wheelchairs? More American tourists? Europeans tour before they get careers and are mostly penniless, Americans tour when they're too damn old to really enjoy it.


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Let me guess...the one in pink is an American? What's the deal with all the wheelchairs? More American tourists? Europeans tour before they get careers and are mostly penniless, Americans tour when they're too damn old to really enjoy it.
Never heard of Lourdes before, have you?
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Old 05-08-07, 02:58 PM
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nice...I'd like to go...but there is nothing like So Cal IMHO....

Its 80 out and perfect sun...
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Old 05-08-07, 03:02 PM
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nice...I'd like to go...but there is nothing like So Cal IMHO....

Its 80 out and perfect sun...
Non.
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great pics, Thanks for sharing. Welcome back.......again
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Old 05-08-07, 03:22 PM
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Nice.
The compliment, not the town.
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Nice pix.
How'd you ship the bike?

Those climbs reminded me of what I could never have appeciated at the time....the Tour de Phil trip to Spain for a week of those climbs around Girona. (three years ago)

I had no idea, and wasn't ready for it all.

I must go back now and see it all...do it all again.
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looks so awesome! welcome back
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Originally Posted by Hipcycler
Nice pix.
How'd you ship the bike?

Those climbs reminded me of what I could never have appeciated at the time....the Tour de Phil trip to Spain for a week of those climbs around Girona.

I had no idea, and wasn't ready for it all.

I must go back now and see it all...do it all again.
the old fashioned way:


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