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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 12-06-10, 07:18 AM
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Today's pro tip: Dec. 6th, 2010
Say nice things about the things you're given for free to ride (read: schwag). If you're not a pro buy things your favorite pro or elite rider uses because it makes them look good.
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Old 12-06-10, 07:21 AM
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show up early. there is no "on time".

if you over-prepare for the gig then you might just get called back.
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Old 12-06-10, 07:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Grumpy McTrumpy
show up early. there is no "on time".

if you over-prepare for the gig then you might just get called back.
That was my dad's line. "Even if you're on time, you're ten minutes late."
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"Second place is the first loser - there is shame in losing a race but there is no shame in getting beat" - Big difference
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Today's real pro tip: you guys aren't pros.
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Old 12-06-10, 08:13 AM
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I know you're old and a bit tweaked in the head but that was more or less covered in the op.
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Originally Posted by patentcad
Today's real pro tip: you guys aren't pros.
i am a pro at that about which i spoke
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Old 12-06-10, 08:24 AM
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I am a middling domestic pro meditation and dharma teacher
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That was my dad's line. "Even if you're on time, you're ten minutes late."
the navy says: "if you're not 5 minutes early, you're 5 minutes late".
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the navy says: "if you're not 5 minutes early, you're 5 minutes late".
The Air Force says that too...and then makes you wait for 30 minutes.
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hurry up and wait
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I know you're old and a bit tweaked in the head
Tell me something I don't know.
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Get off the computer and go ride.
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Don't go to Europe.
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Don't go to Europe.
Many guys have gone and been broken...
Only to come back and not race again.
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