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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 07-11-10 | 11:36 PM
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Haha... OOOOOOOHHHHHH SHINY!
LOL, I did a copy and paste into google of the above, and it gave me:
Did you mean: OOOOOOHHHHHHH SHINY
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Old 07-11-10 | 11:41 PM
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But I wanted images.....
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Old 07-12-10 | 02:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol

What a wuss country. Here last week it was about that warm at 11 p.m.
Seriously. Here too. 103ºF here last week on two days.
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Old 07-12-10 | 03:07 AM
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the road was melting here!
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Old 07-12-10 | 03:13 AM
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Motorcyclists are generally complete idiots. 3 or 4 fatalities here quite recently in my local area. Every single one pilot error by the way. No evil cager aggression was required in any of those accidents, the riders did it all by themselves. So this spurs a newspaper article about how all this has shaken up the local hog morons. Here is a quote from that article, I kid you not:

News of the accidents has sobered many motorcyclists and spurred discussion at gatherings throughout Orange, Sullivan and Ulster counties. Those who took risks on their bikes spoke of "being scared straight," while others talked of having fewer beers before heading onto the road. More than a few reminded each other to stay alert.

Oh the sacrifices some m/c geniuses make for safety. It makes me verklempt.
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Old 07-12-10 | 03:21 AM
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My 2GB second generation iPod Shuffle (vastly superior to the current third generation model) drowned on my ride Saturday. Fortunately Apple still sells refurbished versions of same. I ordered a replacement. I'll never know why they changed this design, it's really the perfect iPod for cyclists/joggers/hikers etc. $59. Cheap thrills.



The controls on the new one really suck.
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Old 07-12-10 | 03:32 AM
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Old 07-12-10 | 04:20 AM
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I generally use my iPhone, but I have a second gen nano that I'm very fond of and use quite a bit especially on vacation and places where I don't need a phone. I listen to way too much new music to not be able to get data on an album or song.

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Old 07-12-10 | 07:11 AM
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Originally Posted by coasting
the road was melting here!
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People here don't get it.
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Old 07-12-10 | 07:22 AM
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So Gomer, I hit 6100 miles for the year yesterday. Does this make you realize how quixotic your quest to compete in the annual Pcad Annual BF Mileage Pissing Contest actually is? Sort of like Lance after yesterday's disastrous Tour stage.
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Old 07-12-10 | 07:23 AM
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Originally Posted by gsteinb
I generally use my iPhone, but I have a second gen nano that I'm very fond of and use quite a bit especially on vacation and places where I don't need a phone. I listen to way too much new music to not be able to get data on an album or song.

That's an older Nano. I have a first generation Nano that still works. You can really only kill them if you drown them.
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Old 07-12-10 | 07:24 AM
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hey patentcad

what's with the sudden mileage increase. What are you trying to prove?
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Old 07-12-10 | 07:26 AM
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that line you use "you think you're so good? why am i still here?" is brilliant. I used it on the road nazi yesterday. you think you're so good? why aren't you more than 2 hours faster than me?
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Old 07-12-10 | 07:27 AM
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Originally Posted by coasting
What are you trying to prove?
I realized that racing is pointless for me, I'm really only happy when I'm riding a zillion miles and I look like a recently liberated POW.

My racing will be relegated to sponsorship and showing up to wave the flag on occasion. Other than that I'm friggin done. The Nyack Ride works for me. I go out and hang on as long as I can, and sometimes I make it to the end.
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Old 07-12-10 | 07:29 AM
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Originally Posted by coasting
that line you use "you think you're so good? why am i still here?" is brilliant. I used it on the road nazi yesterday. you think you're so good? why aren't you more than 2 hours faster than me?
That's not the line. If you're going to use this, get it straight.

Coasting: 'You know how I know you guys aren't so fast?'

Puzzled Brit Road Nazi: 'How's that mate?' (they always say 'mate' in the UK)

Coasting: 'Because I'm still here.'

That should piss off many Road Nazis anywhere. And if it doesn't, they're not so bad.
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Old 07-12-10 | 07:33 AM
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Originally Posted by patentcad
That's not the line. If you're going to use this, get it straight.

Coasting: 'You know how I know you guys aren't so fast?'

Puzzled Brit Road Nazi: 'How's that mate?' (they always say 'mate' in the UK)

Coasting: 'Because I'm still here.'

That should piss off many Road Nazis anywhere. And if it doesn't, they're not so bad.

i would love to use that line but i finished over an hour behind said raod nazi, who happens to be american.
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Old 07-12-10 | 07:34 AM
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Originally Posted by patentcad
My 2GB second generation iPod Shuffle (vastly superior to the current third generation model) drowned on my ride Saturday. Fortunately Apple still sells refurbished versions of same. I ordered a replacement. I'll never know why they changed this design, it's really the perfect iPod for cyclists/joggers/hikers etc. $59. Cheap thrills.



The controls on the new one really suck.
I've got that one. When I run it clips to my watch band. Perfect.
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Old 07-12-10 | 07:35 AM
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Originally Posted by coasting
i would love to use that line but i finished over an hour behind
Then you don't get to use it. You can piss off the Road Nazis, but it is an earned privilege.
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Old 07-12-10 | 07:38 AM
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I rode 130 miles last week.

You know how I know your mileage isn't all that? Because I'm still within 3000 miles of you (almost).
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Old 07-12-10 | 07:43 AM
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i've decided i'm going to up my mileage. before long we'll be wearing knee socks and loading our bikes with luggage.
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Old 07-12-10 | 08:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
You know how I know your mileage isn't all that? Because I'm still within 3000 miles of you (almost).
This is Utter Fail as a rank out strategy Gomer. You know this, right?
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Old 07-12-10 | 08:26 AM
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Originally Posted by patentcad
I realized that racing is pointless.
There's the nugget.
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Old 07-12-10 | 08:38 AM
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All of cycling is pointless, racing just elevates pointlessness to some other worldly plane of futility.
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Old 07-12-10 | 09:15 AM
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I think we need a graph to depict the pointlessness of various forms of cycling.
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Old 07-12-10 | 09:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Tulex
I think we need a graph to depict the pointlessness of various forms of cycling.
That's counter intuitive.

But since you came up with the idea, that's your BF Homework for this week.
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