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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 07-25-10 | 07:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol

It took me 20 minutes to pry one of the brake pads out of the shoe.

Maybe I'll tackle the other one tomorrow.

If any of you had any doubts this was the 41, this should quell them.
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Old 07-25-10 | 07:36 PM
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Now you're scaring me Gomer.

That means you're only 13 hours from my house.
Depending on the traffic, I might even be able to get to OC faster than NYC because I would straight up 81 to 84, bypassing most of the urban pitfalls.
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Old 07-25-10 | 07:38 PM
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If any of you had any doubts this was the 41, this should quell them.
The pads are halfway fossilized.
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Old 07-25-10 | 07:42 PM
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Cubs score 3 in the bottom of the 5th to go up 3-2.

It's thrilling baseball action.
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Old 07-25-10 | 07:44 PM
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Stupid Pujols.
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Old 07-25-10 | 08:21 PM
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Originally Posted by patentcad
Let's keep boating out of this. Boating is for rich guys and white trash.
True.
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Old 07-25-10 | 08:24 PM
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What just happened? On Versus as Phil or whoever said "They [Contador and Schleck] are friends again now" it showed Contador kind of rubbing Schleck's face.

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Are they talking about spectators feeding the cyclists? You know, like don't feed the bears?
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Old 07-25-10 | 08:25 PM
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Originally Posted by patentcad
I'm trying to wrap my head around the fitness required to finish the Tour de France within the time cutoff, but it's beyond my limited 41understanding. Maybe those 33 geniuses could help us with this.
Don't worry, any TdF rider could poop on them all at once.
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Old 07-25-10 | 08:53 PM
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I think I'll drug up tonight to see if I can get some sleep.
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Old 07-25-10 | 08:55 PM
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Presumably (if he really rode) coasting got to see the Hay Moon and the Sea Goat.
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Old 07-25-10 | 09:00 PM
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Originally Posted by patentcad
If any of you had any doubts this was the 41, this should quell them.
Or this.
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Old 07-25-10 | 10:54 PM
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im in the market for a new race bike. what do you guys think of Scott? later.
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Old 07-25-10 | 11:36 PM
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That's the one I have. White, with the black stripe and the CF tail and nose... I'll take pics later...
So this is the Toupe my junk rests on...

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Old 07-25-10 | 11:44 PM
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im in the market for a new race bike. what do you guys think of Scott? later.
i test rode a scott addict.

Very nice

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Old 07-25-10 | 11:46 PM
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you won't believe what happened on my epic ride yesterday. I was beaten by a recumbent an a bike carrying a dog like bailey in 2manybike's trike. I took a pic of the dogmobil
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Old 07-26-10 | 04:23 AM
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It's 63º outside this AM instead of 80º. That helps.
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Old 07-26-10 | 04:24 AM
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Originally Posted by Jeepnut22
So this is the Toupe my junk rests on...

In cycling, everything is fuglier in white.
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Old 07-26-10 | 04:40 AM
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'Celebrate classic bikes?'


friggin 'Murray'?
Murray built a lot of the best cruisers and middleweights. A real sleeper.
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Old 07-26-10 | 04:49 AM
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When it comes to the "classics" you gotta at least go with Schwinn.
Her name is Germaine. I had to use Higgins/Elgin fenders and a Hawthorne tank but she'll have them soon.

I have 17 pages of my own for Tempest, remember.

Murray built my Western Flyer as well.

All that's in the thread, three years down the line.
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Old 07-26-10 | 04:53 AM
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A ha! Proof that I'm not fat.

A recreational cyclist friend of mine (not here) made a Facebook comment about riding slow. I offer witty response.

His reply, in part:

"I'm lugging about 50 more lbs than you"

Is that the kind of excuse you would make to another fatty?
Maybe. At 260+ my mode is still go like crazy.

Not hard. Already crazy.
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Old 07-26-10 | 04:56 AM
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Originally Posted by Quel
If you fools have time to read this stupid thread at work, you have time to watch the TdF at work. I know I do.
At least no sheep were harmed in the streaming.
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Old 07-26-10 | 05:09 AM
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Hmmmm. Shave my legs to fit in with a small group of guys, or don't shave to fit in with society. That is a tough one. Well, you could always just do what you want and not give a crap what any group thinks.
Aerodynamic, but your pits are still...yah, a social conundrum.
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Old 07-26-10 | 05:12 AM
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But Cubs fans have been saying that for 100 years.
Between the Cubs and Seventh-Day Adventists you've got two groups who are absolutely correct and consistent about it.
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Old 07-26-10 | 05:39 AM
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I always have fond memories of taking sunfish out on the lake....does that even count as sailing? How much do those things cost used?

I went out with the sailing club at school once... rich white kids in the making right there. They had like one size up...they were tossing words like lasers and 420s around not sure what the heck I was in but it seemed nice.
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Old 07-26-10 | 05:42 AM
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