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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 08-07-10 | 12:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
We were lost without our BF role model to guide us.
You remain lost.
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Old 08-07-10 | 12:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Tulex
Greece has an amazing amount of shoreline. Can you show me on a map where you are?
Try this map.

I'm staying about 20 miles north of Chalkida on the coast. Zoom the map out to get a view of the entire island of Evia its relationship to Greece.
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Old 08-07-10 | 12:13 PM
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By the way, I was chatting with this biker dude on the plane coming over. He lives in NJ and is visiting family on Crete. Really into Harley bikes. He says there are Harleys in Greece (I've only seen a couple) and they have a branch of the Hell's Angels here. This only proves that one of America's greatest exports is Stupidity.

They don't need American Stupidty in Greece. They have more than enough of their own. Trust me on this.
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Old 08-07-10 | 12:16 PM
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I want to ride, but it's always the same routes, and alone, it's no fun and I have no motivation. That said, I'm not going to go ride. I'm going to sit here and be on bikeforums on this beautiful day.
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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 08-07-10 | 12:21 PM
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Originally Posted by mzeffex
I'm going to sit here and be on bikeforums on this beautiful day.
This is what cycling is all about.
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Old 08-07-10 | 12:22 PM
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There was some kind of harley convention going on recently here. A whole bunch of them rode past me in my car. I gave them the thumbs up. I don't know why.
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Old 08-07-10 | 12:22 PM
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Originally Posted by patentcad
Try this map.

I'm staying about 20 miles north of Chalkida on the coast. Zoom the map out to get a view of the entire island of Evia its relationship to Greece.
Cool, thanks. So you are near Pilio, at the end of the mt range?
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Old 08-07-10 | 12:23 PM
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Originally Posted by mzeffex
I want to ride, but it's always the same routes, and alone, it's no fun and I have no motivation. That said, I'm not going to go ride. I'm going to sit here and be on bikeforums on this beautiful day.
Clearly you have not achieved cycling zen. Alone with nothing but the whirring of your chain and the pounding of your heart to listen to; that is what cycling zen feels like.
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Old 08-07-10 | 12:24 PM
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Originally Posted by ijen0311
I did

Out of probably 50 or so people I saw, I actually had the only Cervélo. A guy on a Motobecane walked past me and said "oohhhh look at my Cervélo" in a really obnoxious voice. I was like huh?
Not for nothing, but any idiot who rides a BD Motobecane as his main road bike doesn't even deserve to be on the same planet as a Cervelo owner, let alone be sarcastic towards her for riding one.

Next time tell the guy his bike is a piece of crap and he should get a friggin grip.
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Old 08-07-10 | 12:24 PM
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Old 08-07-10 | 12:25 PM
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Originally Posted by patentcad
Not for nothing, but any idiot who rides a BD Motobecane as his main road bike doesn't even deserve to be on the same planet as a Cervelo owner, let alone be sarcastic towards her for riding one.

Next time tell the guy his bike is a piece of crap and he should get a friggin grip.
It's arguable that I am uniquely qualified to offer this advice since I own both a late model Cervelo and a Motobecane. But the BD bike is my MTB, not my main road bike.
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Hang with me.
This thread has gotten large enough that it is scaring the venerable Server Hamster whose little wheel powers the BF database (it's taking longer and longer to load).

I'm going to lock this thread, start an new Addiction thread, and move the last page or so of posts from this thread to the new thread.

Sorry about the trouble,

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Old 08-07-10 | 04:16 PM
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https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...9624-Addiction
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