This past weekend, the Clippers, Lakers and Kings all played at the Staples Center. Just for fun, they threw in the end of the TDC. Talk about a zoo. Glad I'm not a hockey or basketball fan!

Yes, but for some morbid reason, I keep asking for advice anyway. I think I'm not getting enough abuse at home and I'm looking to fill the void!

Well don't quit asking. Every time I see one of your posts it reminds me how lucky I am to be able to ride my bike.

It's hard to drop a chain when the bike is leaning on a bench :innocent:

Well, thank you. We all have journeys and I know it sound cliche, but none of us know what tomorrow holds so ride every day you can and you'll reduce your risk of not having another one tomorrow. I'm very grateful to have another today, which at one point, we weren't too sure about. I'm grateful to be back on the bike. I'm down 6 lbs. since I started again, which I credit the couple hundred miles I put on the 30 lb. Rockhopper....oh, and the lack of steroids that are in the chemo.

Besides, I plan on sticking around long enough to put Di2 on my Lynskey. This should be as soon as I pay off my med bills......2023!

More impressively, they did three of the four events in the same day.

Oh brother.

Took the fixed gear to my kid's soccer practice, to teach myself to trackstand on the the little used traffic circle. There was a passle of kids LARP'ing, in costume and with foam weapons, pulverizing each other, and my bike and I were apparently more distracting than them. People would rubber neck and ask me what I was doing, oblivious to the 50 kids around me. I guess cycling is a real oddity.

A grown man on a bicycle?!? Imagine that!

The other day I passed an empty parking lot on my fixed gear and thought "Hmm, maybe I'll try to learn riding backwards. I got in maybe 1/25th of a revolution in reverse before I bailed on that idea. Need full body armour.

This thread needs more videos!!!!

Foam? FOAM?

Hell's bells, when I was a kid and we played at swordfighting, our swords were made of fence pickets or tree stakes. When you got hit, it hurt. So you learned how to guard pretty quick or you came home bruised.

Our only real concession to safety was the occasional hockey helmet - and if you wore a helmet, that meant your melon was now open season.

Foam weapons! Bah! Kids today are weak!

DG

Egads!!!!


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seriously....we used to have pinecone wars....the unopened green ones were ideal for creating open wounds...

Had I my chain whip and pedal wrench, I would have handed them a dollop of beat down, yelling my battle cry: "Its Lycra, Dambit". As it was, I only had my Portland Designs 15mm wrench / tire lever, which is as useful in a full on melee as a Pez dispenser.

I'm still young and remember doing that. It was always a good time, until you got hit. Then it started to suck.

Those look like someone threw up on the drawing board, and then passed it on as a joke.

Where's rjones?

Too much cycling talk here--probably drove him away.

The trick - as I recall it - was to not get hit.

Aerodynamics is a harsh mistress.

DG

He's probably out riding his Schwinn. or walking the dog.

Trying to track down the thread every month probably finally took its toll...

That was the objective, but not always something you could accomplish.

Didn't you have an earthquake?

yes. a 5.2. not overly necessary on a Friday afternoon. nothing seems damaged any further though.

They're all kids to me now.

Great guitar lesson in Manhattan tonight. This guy is making me look at aspects of playing I never looked at before. This guy will help me get better. Very cool.