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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 05-14-11 | 03:24 AM
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I fantasize about Liz Hatch and her bike seat
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I am too much of tecnophobe to know how to download/upload (or whatever it's called) my Garmin to my PC

I constantly get my cycling ambitions mixed up with my abilities

I hate Campag and SRAM but have never riden a bike that has them

I hate fat people, especially when they are wearing lycra

I've never used a wind trainer. Bought one but never pulled it out of the box, sat it in my garage for a year and ended up selling it for $60 less than I paid for it

I love to smash Freds on my commute to and from work

I like Lance and respect him as a rider even if in the future it is proven that he has doped

I only use Continental GP400S tyres

I will never use Michelin tubes with my Conti tyres

I don't like Sidi shoes. Bought a pair and wore them on and off for 6 months but prefer my cheapo Shimano shoes

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Old 05-14-11 | 04:02 AM
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Old 05-14-11 | 04:32 AM
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I don't repair/maintain my bike(s) I take it to a bike mechanic if it needs fixing.

I change tyres and tubes.

The most complicated job I've done is change a cassette.

I don't patch tubes I throw them out

I hate it when a girl beats me in a race
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Old 05-14-11 | 07:14 AM
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i never patch tubes. tubes are disposable IMHO.
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Old 05-14-11 | 07:23 AM
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I have Aqua and the Spice Girls on my iPod.
This thread is supposed to be funny but that's just plain sick man
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Old 05-14-11 | 10:03 AM
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Soon after I wash my hair, I ride my bike. It gets my hair due just the way I like it. I don't own a wind tunnel and I don't like using the fan.
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Old 05-14-11 | 10:43 AM
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I wear mirrored sunglasses so nobody can tell that I am staring at them
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Old 05-14-11 | 03:49 PM
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I wear mirrored sunglasses so nobody can tell that I am staring at them
You stare at your mirrored sunglasses?
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Old 05-14-11 | 09:02 PM
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I don't know how to change gears (well at least I don't do it enough). I ride pretty much my whole ride in my second highest gear (46X15 or 16) and only ever use maybe 4 gears total.
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Old 05-15-11 | 01:45 PM
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I wear mirrored sunglasses so nobody can tell that I am staring at them
Only problem with that scenario is that most people assume you are staring at them if you are wearing mirror glasses.
After all, why else would someone wear mirrored glasses nowadays? Not in style anymore.
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Old 05-15-11 | 02:05 PM
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I do not care at all for style or fashion.
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Old 05-15-11 | 02:10 PM
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Old 05-15-11 | 02:45 PM
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ok I have 2 but one is serious so I can't put it here but I will confess that,

While doing CPR on a guy the other night I was thinking how good a vanilla ice cream cone from DQ's would be.
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Old 05-15-11 | 02:46 PM
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Dude ... if we all would post how many confessions we don't want to put here ... this will be a looong night.
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Old 05-15-11 | 10:34 PM
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I sometimes keep my head straight but turn my eyes sideways as I bury others.

I get totally buzzed on 1 bottle of beer.

I think pedaling faster makes me look faster.

I can not blow a snot rocket. It only streams across my mouth and cheek.

I'm asian and I like country music.
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Old 05-15-11 | 11:34 PM
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I don't want to go to college. I want to ride my bike.

I applied for a commuter college so that I don't have to dorm somewhere else...because I like the place I ride in.

I chose my bike over my girlfriend...i mean ex-girlfriend.

I told my parents that bike racing was a school project so that they'd help pay for some stuff and races.

I have a low weight but low power output so my climbing isn't as good as it looks like it should be.
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Old 05-15-11 | 11:38 PM
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I'm a vegetarian. But I don't like animals.
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Old 05-16-11 | 08:24 AM
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...That and the scene in Pulp Fiction when Bruce Willis takes off on the bike with his girlfriend- tears every time.
Zed's dead baby. <they ride away>

Great movie!
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Old 05-16-11 | 08:33 AM
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I hired a public investigator to see if my girlfriend loves me.
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Old 05-16-11 | 08:41 AM
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I rode my bike in the rain yesterday, and it didn't bother me that it wasn't a dedicated "rain bike".
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Old 05-16-11 | 08:58 AM
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I hired a public investigator to see if my girlfriend loves me.
If I don't trust her enough that I'm doing that, I'd say the relationship is irretrievably broken.
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Old 05-16-11 | 09:04 AM
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If I don't trust her enough that I'm doing that, I'd say the relationship is irretrievably broken.
As it turns out, she does not love me. She is just using me for sex. I am OK with that.
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Old 05-16-11 | 09:05 AM
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I'm asian and I like country music.
Yet another sign of the impending apocalypse.
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Old 05-16-11 | 09:13 AM
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As it turns out, she does not love me. She is just using me for sex. I am OK with that.
sounds fine
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Old 05-16-11 | 09:14 AM
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I'm a vegetarian. But I don't like animals.
And I'm a vegetarian who thinks animals taste good, but hasn't eaten one in 13ish years.
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