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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 05-16-11, 07:00 AM
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Dude, your rides make me tired!
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Space Shuttle Endeavour is named (and spelled) for a British ship. I blame coasting.

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Originally Posted by twobadfish
Basically we are to take him at his word for everything he says he is and does. And if I know anything about the internet and people...
Originally Posted by coasting
the internet brings out the inate truthfulness of people.
I am just a humble man who travels sidesaddle on my bicycle, strumming a guitar to relieve the burdens of a complicated life.




With aerobars on my mountain bike, crap, OK you got me this time.
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Originally Posted by coasting
one of those crazy long distance cyclists.
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Originally Posted by LAJ
Huh.
if the shoe fits...
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Old 05-16-11, 10:27 AM
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wha?
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Dangit he says.
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Joey Chestnut does it again.

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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Joey Chestnut does it again.

really?
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I don't know who Joey Chestnut is or what he's doing, but that picture is grossing me out.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
I don't know who Joey Chestnut is or what he's doing, but that picture is grossing me out.
He's the competitive eating champ that dethroned the legendary Takeru Kobayashi. Kobayashi was like the Michael Jordan of eating, taking things to an unprecedented level, completely shattering record after record. Chestnut came out of the woodwork and flattened Kobayashi. BTW, the word "reversal," takes on new meaning in the context of competitive eating.
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I think I'll make some salt potatoes tonight. Probably only have 3 or 4 and probably eat them slowly, however.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Joey Chestnut does it again.

I just read the article - for those too turned off by the photo to click through, he won a salt potato eating contest. For a frame of reference, Mr. Chestnut ate the weight equivalent of Soloist Assassin's Cervelo in 10 minutes.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
I don't know who Joey Chestnut is or what he's doing
wut

He's one of the few remaining American international superstars. To add insult to injury, this happened somewhere near you. You could have witnessed history!
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
wut

He's one of the few remaining American international superstars. To add insult to injury, this happened somewhere near you. You could have witnessed history!
I will echo.

wut
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Eating contests all remind me of the pie-eating contest story from Stand by Me.

Not suitable for the squeamish.
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Old 05-16-11, 01:43 PM
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Originally Posted by RUOkie
I will echo.

wut
yeah, that doesn't make any sense.
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
I just read the article - for those too turned off by the photo to click through, he won a salt potato eating contest. For a frame of reference, Mr. Chestnut ate the weight equivalent of Soloist Assassin's Cervelo in 10 minutes.
lol! I see what you did there. That guy is crazy.
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The bike came

So excited. Vrroom



Mountain biking was not at all anything like I had expected. In fact, I don't think I really had any expectations for it other than to be a way to get off the road and see more. It's so much more.
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Wait, you had never been on a mountain bike before? OOHHHHH dude, do yourself a favor and get a couple of these before you mess up a backcountry safety meeting.

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Originally Posted by twobadfish
Mountain biking was not at all anything like I had expected.
I hope you take all the stuff you need with you in case you break down, because I don't think anyone else would ever happen upon you out there until you are partially decomposed.
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Sweet.

Originally Posted by twobadfish
The bike came

So excited. Vrroom



Mountain biking was not at all anything like I had expected. In fact, I don't think I really had any expectations for it other than to be a way to get off the road and see more. It's so much more.
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