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heckler 05-03-10 07:49 PM

maybe 40 minutes? all the hard stuff was already together (fork, crank, etc,) 10 min to unpack 20 min to put together (wheels on,, seat on, handlebars on, pedals on) 10 minutes to adjust to "close enough" to ride. Competative cyclist offers a "ready to ride" option for about $100 more that due to dimensions must come on a 18 wheeler UPS truck. I can't imagine a more terrible way to waste $100.

Younger guys, Do the engineering thing it is worth it. CHE if possible.

patentcad 05-03-10 07:51 PM

Nick Drake killed himself in 1974. He was an obscure folksy Brit pop non-star. Then Volkswagen used his song 'Pink Moon' in a commercial in 2000. After which Nick Drake sold more albums than he had in the 26 years since his death in about a year. His haunting music is now on a new AT&T spot. It's a shame such beautiful music is used in such a blatantly commercial manner, but whatever turns Mr. Drake on to more people. Check him out you friggin pathetic weenies.

patentcad 05-03-10 07:52 PM


Originally Posted by Velo Vol (Post 10760831)

Maybe I'll bust out with a poem.

Here's a poem:

Roses are red
Violets are blue
I'm a Gomer
Where the eff is my chaw?

patentcad 05-03-10 07:58 PM

You are all idiots.





This thread is for you.

wens 05-03-10 08:04 PM


Originally Posted by heckler (Post 10760853)
maybe 40 minutes? all the hard stuff was already together (fork, crank, etc,) 10 min to unpack 20 min to put together (wheels on,, seat on, handlebars on, pedals on) 10 minutes to adjust to "close enough" to ride. Competative cyclist offers a "ready to ride" option for about $100 more that due to dimensions must come on a 18 wheeler UPS truck. I can't imagine a more terrible way to waste $100.

Younger guys, Do the engineering thing it is worth it. CHE if possible.

What's CHE?

mzeffex, do you know what you want to do?

mzeffex 05-03-10 08:07 PM


Originally Posted by wens (Post 10760929)
What's CHE?

mzeffex, do you know what you want to do?

Engineering or physics something. Not architecture though.

Velo Vol 05-03-10 08:13 PM

One good thing about the flood is that it has hit Titans stadium. Hopefully they'll take a wrecking ball to that thing and move far away.

http://cmsimg.tennessean.com/apps/pb...R&Profile=2196

Meanwhile I saw CNN had a reporter stationed live (after dark) at the junkyard where failed car bomb got its stolen license plate.

The idiocy boggles the mind.

patentcad 05-03-10 08:17 PM


Originally Posted by Velo Vol (Post 10760981)

My Gomer idiocy boggles the mind.

Fixed.

WhyFi 05-03-10 08:21 PM


Originally Posted by patentcad (Post 10760869)
Nick Drake killed himself in 1974. He was an obscure folksy Brit pop non-star. Then Volkswagen used his song 'Pink Moon' in a commercial in 2000. After which Nick Drake sold more albums than he had in the 26 years since his death in about a year. His haunting music is now on a new AT&T spot. It's a shame such beautiful music is used in such a blatantly commercial manner, but whatever turns Mr. Drake on to more people. Check him out you friggin pathetic weenies.

The Garden State soundtrack didn't hurt his popularity, either. Great stuff.

heckler 05-03-10 08:26 PM

CHE - Chemical Engineering
ME - Mechanical Engineering
CE- Civil Engineering
BME/BE - Biomedical/Bioenineering
EE/ECE - Electrical/ Electrical and Computer Engineering (sometimes Computer is by itself)
Optics (only some schools)

^^
I count as real engineering...they have crap like envirormental engineering too, but it is just stuff a CHE could do better.

Whatever you do don't major in history and english ;)

mzeffex 05-03-10 08:28 PM


Originally Posted by heckler (Post 10761050)
CHE - Chemical Engineering
ME - Mechanical Engineering
CE- Civil Engineering
BME/BE - Biomedical/Bioenineering
EE/ECE - Electrical/ Electrical and Computer Engineering (sometimes Computer is by itself)
Optics (only some schools)

^^
I count as real engineering...they have crap like envirormental engineering too, but it is just stuff a CHE could do better.

Whatever you do don't major in history and english ;)

My boss majored in History. I work in a bike shop.

wens 05-03-10 08:33 PM


Originally Posted by heckler (Post 10761050)
CHE - Chemical Engineering
ME - Mechanical Engineering
CE- Civil Engineering
BME/BE - Biomedical/Bioenineering
EE/ECE - Electrical/ Electrical and Computer Engineering (sometimes Computer is by itself)
Optics (only some schools)

^^
I count as real engineering...they have crap like envirormental engineering too, but it is just stuff a CHE could do better.

Whatever you do don't major in history and english ;)

I should've known that, and chemical sounds awful.

patentcad 05-03-10 08:40 PM


Originally Posted by WhyFi (Post 10761023)
The Garden State soundtrack didn't hurt his popularity, either. Great stuff.

I have two of his albums, they are like nothing else I've ever heard. Man he was great. Surprising he didn't get more notice 35+ years ago while he was alive. Hell, I was only 16 when he died.

WhyFi 05-03-10 08:44 PM

^^^ if ya got 'em on vinyl, I'll get 'em out of your way - no charge!

ls01 05-03-10 09:02 PM


Originally Posted by patentcad (Post 10760723)
Sometimes on BF I feel like the cranky old uncle who lives in a college town and all the freeloader kids come by to drink my beer.

sometimes!!!!**********???? hey you kids get off my lawn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

patentcad 05-03-10 09:31 PM


Originally Posted by WhyFi (Post 10761149)
^^^ if ya got 'em on vinyl, I'll get 'em out of your way - no charge!

iTunes you poser.

Velo Vol 05-03-10 10:12 PM


Originally Posted by patentcad (Post 10760723)
Sometimes on BF I feel like the cranky old uncle who lives in a college town and all the freeloader kids come by to drink my beer.

Seems more like high school.

patentcad 05-04-10 03:44 AM


Originally Posted by Velo Vol (Post 10761520)
Seems more like high school.

What grade are these kids in anyway?

Kai Winters 05-04-10 04:03 AM

Hickory Dickory Dock
A Gomer Can't Use A Clock


Thanks Dice...

coasting 05-04-10 04:10 AM

that bmc of heckler's is very very sweet. I think I like it more than pcad's scott.

patentcad 05-04-10 04:14 AM


Originally Posted by coasting (Post 10762011)
that bmc of heckler's is very very sweet. I think I like it more than pcad's scott.

I'm not so crazy about those bmc's.


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