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Old 03-11-08, 05:58 PM
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Can you send some of it our way, Machka? I shoveled three times on Sunday.
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Environment canada can go eat a sack of bannanas. They've been posting storm watch and warnings nearly everyday for the past two weeks.
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Originally Posted by SSP
Just another reason I love living in northern California...current conditions: 74 degrees, clear skies, calm winds.

I've already logged well over 1000 miles for the year...Life is Good on the Best Coast.
For me, 74F is almost too hot to ride in.
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Originally Posted by operator
Environment canada can go eat a sack of bannanas. They've been posting storm watch and warnings nearly everyday for the past two weeks.
Still a whole lot better than the Weather Network.
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Originally Posted by Tequila Joe
Some folks in Eastern Canada are soft.... HTFU!


Some people everywhere are soft, but what I think you mean is southern Ontario, not the real east.



And while we're having fun bashing everybody:
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Newsflash! This just in...Americans don't understand subtlety and irony.
Incorrect.
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Originally Posted by Godwin
Some people everywhere are soft, but what I think you mean is southern Ontario, not the real east.
Blowing snow is reasonable, but this however, is pushing it.
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Originally Posted by mrbubbles
Blowing snow is reasonable, but this however, is pushing it.
No, I'm tougher than you.
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Originally Posted by Boudicca
Can you send some of it our way, Machka? I shoveled three times on Sunday.

I'd actually like to hang onto it for a while. The snow is almost gone here, except in places where it drifted or was shovelled. Many lawns are visible. The streets are bare and dry. And 4 flocks of geese went over when I was on my century on Sunday!
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Let's see here....You're covered in snow to your armpits and freezing, and I'm in 75 degree weather and can ride every day. Yet you're boasting about how much smarter you are than Americans. Lord, I hope I'm never quite as smart as you.
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Originally Posted by Fat Boy
Let's see here....You're covered in snow to your armpits and freezing, and I'm in 75 degree weather and can ride every day. Yet you're boasting about how much smarter you are than Americans. Lord, I hope I'm never quite as smart as you.
Intellect has nothing to do with geographic location.

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Originally Posted by Machka
I'd actually like to hang onto it for a while. The snow is almost gone here, except in places where it drifted or was shovelled. Many lawns are visible. The streets are bare and dry. And 4 flocks of geese went over when I was on my century on Sunday!
Sad thing is, we've got geese here too. Must be avian flu or something. No idea what they were planning to do with all this snow and ice around.
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Originally Posted by Fat Boy
Let's see here....You're covered in snow to your armpits and freezing, and I'm in 75 degree weather and can ride every day. Yet you're boasting about how much smarter you are than Americans. Lord, I hope I'm never quite as smart as you.
Right.
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Originally Posted by Fat Boy
Let's see here....You're covered in snow to your armpits and freezing, and I'm in 75 degree weather and can ride every day. Yet you're boasting about how much smarter you are than Americans. Lord, I hope I'm never quite as smart as you.
Let's see here, in southern Ontario we get perfect 25 degree weather for four months of the year, 20 degree weather for about three months of the year, 10-15 degree weather about two months and three months of full-on snowy weather where temperatures vary wildly from -10 to +10. We miss about three to four weeks of riding due to snowy roads.

We get four seasons. And we get to live in Canada. That makes me smarter than you almost by default.

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Old 03-11-08, 11:56 PM
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Wow, your govenment does almost as important work as ours.
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Originally Posted by oilman_15106
Wow, your govenment does almost as important work as ours.
That's hilarious
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Originally Posted by rousseau
Compared to the U.S., the nation that gave the world (okay, itself) "freedom fries"? You are incorrect.


Sorry, but in fact it does.


Newsflash! This just in...Americans don't understand subtlety and irony.
You mean to say Hollywood blockbuster movies aren't really subtle?
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Old 03-12-08, 09:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Fat Boy
Let's see here....You're covered in snow to your armpits and freezing, and I'm in 75 degree weather and can ride every day. Yet you're boasting about how much smarter you are than Americans. Lord, I hope I'm never quite as smart as you.
You have nothing to worry about.

or in american

You don't got nuttin to worry about.
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Old 03-12-08, 09:27 AM
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Originally Posted by celticfrost
Yet another 50+ degree winter day in Denver.
How's the smog?
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Old 03-12-08, 10:26 AM
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Originally Posted by ElJamoquio
How's the smog?
Considering that I moved here from LA (after only being there for about a year), it's relatively non-existent. But like any decent sized city, yeah there's some smog, but then again most of my riding is outside of the city limits. I've been up to 7k+ feet a few times in Golden (~15-20 miles west of downtown) already this year and the Denver skyline is clearly visible. And to be even more accurate, yesterday was just yet another 60+ degree, sunny day in Denver -- as is today.
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Old 03-12-08, 10:32 AM
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Originally Posted by marin1
Are americans this dumb? I'll add that to the reasons why I would never move to america.
I would never move to Canada either or buy anything from Canada. I have a major issue with how the government lets the seal hunting continue......all about money...makes me want to puke!
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Old 03-12-08, 10:46 AM
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I've heard seal-skin tires are both puncture-resistant AND have low rolling resistance.
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Originally Posted by interceptor
I would never move to Canada either or buy anything from Canada. I have a major issue with how the government lets the seal hunting continue......all about money...makes me want to puke!
Yeah I hate countries that are all about money! Canada is the worst, they're all about profit. Canada should be more like the US where people and the environment come first and money is an after thought.
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****** bags.....its about the unnecessary clubbing of the baby seals...........tough guys...i would not hesitate 1 second to blow their f***ing brains out.....no hesitation whatever!
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these seal hunters should live a miserable existence and die a horrible death just like they inflict on the poor defenseless baby seals.
canadian govt not stopping it....you know they can.......
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How dare they hurt those fluffy cute little things!
On the other hand, spiders. Ewwwww!!!!!111 Yuck yuck yuck!!!1
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