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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 12-13-09 | 06:22 PM
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So after a boring day of football I decide to log in and read up on some cycling stuff. To my amusement the forum is still talking about a certain someones Cervelo and how much or how little the bike weighs. With the new look and "feel" of this forum and it's lame topics, I think it's time to move on. I hate winter.
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Old 12-13-09 | 06:28 PM
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Hmmm...from FREDerick, Colorado. How fitting...
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Old 12-13-09 | 06:34 PM
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You posting a thread about it really added to the insightful and informational discussion. Thanks.
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Old 12-13-09 | 06:38 PM
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You used it's correctly and incorrectly in the same paragraph.
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Old 12-13-09 | 06:39 PM
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some people have an amazing command of the obviious.
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Old 12-13-09 | 06:44 PM
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You used it's correctly and incorrectly in the same paragraph.
Same sentence actually... just sayin'.
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Old 12-13-09 | 06:46 PM
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Hmmm...from FREDerick, Colorado. How fitting...
LOL. Good one.

Go to a piano forum. Full of sophisticated people there.
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Old 12-13-09 | 06:48 PM
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no...but really...did you see how much mike new bike weighs?
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Old 12-13-09 | 06:55 PM
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We're all extremely disappointed to have lost such a valuable part of the community.

Oh won't you please reconsider and give us another chance?
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Old 12-13-09 | 06:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Grumpy McTrumpy
You used it's correctly and incorrectly in the same paragraph.
If you just use the same one all the time you're bound to get it right sometimes.
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Old 12-13-09 | 07:03 PM
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Old 12-13-09 | 07:10 PM
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Originally Posted by c_bake
So after a boring day of football I decide to log in and read up on some cycling stuff. To my amusement the forum is still talking about a certain someones Cervelo and how much or how little the bike weighs. With the new look and "feel" of this forum and it's lame topics, I think it's time to move on. I hate winter.
People who are really moving on just leave. They don't announce it.
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Old 12-13-09 | 07:11 PM
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Next order of discussion: BikesDirect bikes. Are they any good?
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Old 12-13-09 | 07:16 PM
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People who are really moving on just leave. They don't announce it.
I'll leave kicking and screaming in my usual mature fashion.
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Old 12-13-09 | 07:20 PM
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I think it's time to move on.
Au revoir.
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Old 12-13-09 | 07:22 PM
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Au revoir.
Canadians are always flaunting their sophisticated knowledge of the French language.
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Old 12-13-09 | 07:30 PM
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Canadians are always flaunting their sophisticated knowledge of the French language.
Pardonner moi.
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Old 12-13-09 | 07:47 PM
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Originally Posted by c_bake
So after a boring day of football I decide to log in and read up on some cycling stuff. To my amusement the forum is still talking about a certain someones Cervelo and how much or how little the bike weighs. With the new look and "feel" of this forum and it's lame topics, I think it's time to move on. I hate winter.
You're right, some things never change. Every couple of weeks somebody jumps in here and posts about how the same things are always being talked about on BF and then declares they will never be back. You complete the circle this month.
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Old 12-13-09 | 08:14 PM
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some people have an amazing command of the obviious.
I'm sigging that.
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Old 12-13-09 | 09:48 PM
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Originally Posted by patentcad
People who are really moving on just leave. They don't announce it.
I understood him to mean that it's time to move on to other topics, not that HE was moving on.

Which begs the question, are there other topics?
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Old 12-13-09 | 09:50 PM
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Cervelo sucks.
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Old 12-13-09 | 10:11 PM
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Which begs the question, are there other topics?
No it doesn't
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Old 12-13-09 | 10:15 PM
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Old 12-13-09 | 11:06 PM
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Hmmm...from FREDerick, Colorado. How fitting...
This was the greatest first response, ever. The thread could have closed at that point and still be considered a success.
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Old 12-13-09 | 11:17 PM
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Oh dear god. I long ago gave up on this one. Its not like correcting there grammer.

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