What if Fred is your destiny?
09-14-10, 02:01 PM
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What if Fred is your destiny?
So you buy the fancy carbon bike with the minimum standard 105 groupset. Your goal is to shed X number of pounds, achieve Y average speed, and be able to ride Z number of miles. What if you fall short of any of your goals in the length of time you allotted yourself? What if you overestimate your abilities and discipline? What if the practical realities of life interfere with your plans? Will you give up cycling? Or will you accept your destiny and gladly join in the multitudinous parade of Freds?
09-14-10, 02:08 PM
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09-14-10, 02:08 PM
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I thought the procedure was well known. You find someone slower and fatter than you, preferrably with a better bike than you. Then you mercilessly abuse his fredness until he is a quivering mess.
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09-14-10, 02:13 PM
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09-14-10, 02:14 PM
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serously. get cervelo man to pop into BF. He's great!
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So you buy the fancy carbon bike with the minimum standard 105 groupset. Your goal is to shed X number of pounds, achieve Y average speed, and be able to ride Z number of miles. What if you fall short of any of your goals in the length of time you allotted yourself? What if you overestimate your abilities and discipline? What if the practical realities of life interfere with your plans? Will you give up cycling? Or will you accept your destiny and gladly join in the multitudinous parade of Freds?
09-14-10, 02:17 PM
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i might run into cervelo man this weekend at the certurium in collingwood. anything you want me to pass along, jen?
09-14-10, 02:18 PM
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09-14-10, 02:35 PM
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Who can say he's not envious of Cervelo man. Great bike, travelling all over the world to glamourous locations and riding his bike. He's probably really fit too.
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coasting, few quotes are worthy of him, and of those, even fewer printable in a family forum......quote 3alarmer
No @coasting, you should stay 100% as you are right now, don't change a thing....quote Heathpack
09-14-10, 02:51 PM
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It's a shame that this road cycling board has to be such a joke. There's so much good info on here but you have to weed through all the idiots constantly talking about fredliness. Isn't there an off topic subforum for this?
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09-14-10, 02:53 PM
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Victory at last... Centurion training rides of 100, 50, 25 miles finished. Thanks CERVELO for building such beautiful and amazing bike. New personal record set on 100 miles ( 162 km ) in Collingwood hills - 5:59:26 See you on Centurion Race Sept 19
09-14-10, 02:56 PM
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such a shame. however, you took time to jump into a thread that cleary was about "Freds." so, who you crapping? later.
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That's brilliant! We need a Fred subforum. We need a trainer subforum, too, for people who like indoor cycling.