Happy New Addiction XXXI
01-30-14, 05:22 PM
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I wish I remembered what my first Schwinn cost me, almost 40 years ago.
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01-30-14, 05:24 PM
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20 years, 1 month, 6 days. If I ever give the impression that I am displeased by that, then I am sending bad impressions. My wife improves me.
Edit: #harrumph
Edit: #harrumph
Please give your answer in decimal form.
01-30-14, 05:25 PM
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My Lotus Prestige cost me $260 brand new in 1986, at bike shop cost. I still visit it at a friend's house (and lament it's loss).
01-30-14, 05:25 PM
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01-30-14, 05:26 PM
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01-30-14, 05:26 PM
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Sometimes I make really cynical remarks about marriage. Don't mean no harm, deep down I know that when they work, they work and they are beautiful.
It's just that when they don't it can be the pits.
It's just that when they don't it can be the pits.
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01-30-14, 05:28 PM
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Heh, I know it couldn't have been too daunting, I was in graduate school at the time.
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01-30-14, 05:35 PM
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01-30-14, 05:37 PM
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What I DO remember is asking the guy for the most durable of bikes, as I knew I would be riding the glass-filled, pot-holed streets of NYC. He got me a Schwinn Continental, a beast fondly regarded by many as bullet-proof. Also, boat anchor. And I still have her, proudly take her out for a ride now and then.
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01-30-14, 05:52 PM
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20 years, 1 month, 6 days. If I ever give the impression that I am displeased by that, then I am sending bad impressions. My wife improves me.
Edit: #harrumph
Edit: #harrumph
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01-30-14, 05:54 PM
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So a patient of mine who is a runner comes in today for a visit.
He says he wants to ask my opinion about bikes. He wants to get one for fitness. He has a friend who told him he must spend $2500-3000 for a road bike.
I told him his friend is clueless and you can get a perfectly good entry level road bike for roughly $1K. Sure, it will have aluminum frame and CF fork, not all CF....and maybe tiagra/105 instead of ultegra, but what kind of a moran tells a newbie to buy a $3K bike??
He says he wants to ask my opinion about bikes. He wants to get one for fitness. He has a friend who told him he must spend $2500-3000 for a road bike.
I told him his friend is clueless and you can get a perfectly good entry level road bike for roughly $1K. Sure, it will have aluminum frame and CF fork, not all CF....and maybe tiagra/105 instead of ultegra, but what kind of a moran tells a newbie to buy a $3K bike??
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01-30-14, 06:16 PM
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they are awful, just awful.
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01-30-14, 06:20 PM
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great photo.
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No @coasting, you should stay 100% as you are right now, don't change a thing....quote Heathpack
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
01-30-14, 06:28 PM
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Not to be sappy, but as we rattle off positive things about marriage, I sincerely hope the Mrs. TS is doing OK with her's, regardless of what state it is in.
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01-30-14, 06:33 PM
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The snack shop at work added wasabi peas to the bulk snack stuff they have. I luv wasabi peas.
However, having a crap ton of them the afternoon before doing a 20 minute FTP effort was not wise.
However, having a crap ton of them the afternoon before doing a 20 minute FTP effort was not wise.
01-30-14, 06:38 PM
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And I have to rattle off a pet peeve:
Why does every gearing thread get into the "your cadence must never drop below 80" nonsense? This thought process would mean that everyone should always have a triple. It is goofy, and wrong, and just bad advice. Mashing is not a sin. Your knees don't explode if you go below 80. Almost every recreational cyclist pedals below that, and you don't find cyclist carcasses along side the road. Now, everyone doesn't need to ride a single speed, but they don't need wifli triples either. Grrrrr.
Why does every gearing thread get into the "your cadence must never drop below 80" nonsense? This thought process would mean that everyone should always have a triple. It is goofy, and wrong, and just bad advice. Mashing is not a sin. Your knees don't explode if you go below 80. Almost every recreational cyclist pedals below that, and you don't find cyclist carcasses along side the road. Now, everyone doesn't need to ride a single speed, but they don't need wifli triples either. Grrrrr.
01-30-14, 06:38 PM
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01-30-14, 06:40 PM
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And I have to rattle off a pet peeve:
Why does every gearing thread get into the "your cadence must never drop below 80" nonsense? This thought process would mean that everyone should always have a triple. It is goofy, and wrong, and just bad advice. Mashing is not a sin. Your knees don't explode if you go below 80. Almost every recreational cyclist pedasls below that, and you don't find cyclist carcasses along side the road. Now, everyone doesn't need to ride a single speed, but they don't need wifli triples either. Grrrrr.
Why does every gearing thread get into the "your cadence must never drop below 80" nonsense? This thought process would mean that everyone should always have a triple. It is goofy, and wrong, and just bad advice. Mashing is not a sin. Your knees don't explode if you go below 80. Almost every recreational cyclist pedasls below that, and you don't find cyclist carcasses along side the road. Now, everyone doesn't need to ride a single speed, but they don't need wifli triples either. Grrrrr.
Personally, I like to spin at around 90 but on a long climb I will certainly drop down to 70ish.
01-30-14, 06:50 PM
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Yes, it is. He took it either on the way to or the way from the grocery store last night. Sometimes I ask how long he'll be gone but I'm getting more comfortable with figuring that he'll be back when he's back and if something desperate happens, he'll text. We're both used to being on our own and it's been interesting learning to share space and check in.
01-30-14, 06:56 PM
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happy new year. going for a ride. the roads are never as empty as they are during this holiday.
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coasting, few quotes are worthy of him, and of those, even fewer printable in a family forum......quote 3alarmer
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01-30-14, 06:57 PM
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And I have to rattle off a pet peeve:
Why does every gearing thread get into the "your cadence must never drop below 80" nonsense? This thought process would mean that everyone should always have a triple. It is goofy, and wrong, and just bad advice. Mashing is not a sin. Your knees don't explode if you go below 80. Almost every recreational cyclist pedals below that, and you don't find cyclist carcasses along side the road. Now, everyone doesn't need to ride a single speed, but they don't need wifli triples either. Grrrrr.
Why does every gearing thread get into the "your cadence must never drop below 80" nonsense? This thought process would mean that everyone should always have a triple. It is goofy, and wrong, and just bad advice. Mashing is not a sin. Your knees don't explode if you go below 80. Almost every recreational cyclist pedals below that, and you don't find cyclist carcasses along side the road. Now, everyone doesn't need to ride a single speed, but they don't need wifli triples either. Grrrrr.
Of course on my recumbents, I can't stand so need the triple so I don't try to blow my knees out pushing against the seat back at low cadences uphill.
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01-30-14, 06:59 PM
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So a patient of mine who is a runner comes in today for a visit.
He says he wants to ask my opinion about bikes. He wants to get one for fitness. He has a friend who told him he must spend $2500-3000 for a road bike.
I told him his friend is clueless and you can get a perfectly good entry level road bike for roughly $1K. Sure, it will have aluminum frame and CF fork, not all CF....and maybe tiagra/105 instead of ultegra, but what kind of a moran tells a newbie to buy a $3K bike??
He says he wants to ask my opinion about bikes. He wants to get one for fitness. He has a friend who told him he must spend $2500-3000 for a road bike.
I told him his friend is clueless and you can get a perfectly good entry level road bike for roughly $1K. Sure, it will have aluminum frame and CF fork, not all CF....and maybe tiagra/105 instead of ultegra, but what kind of a moran tells a newbie to buy a $3K bike??
She didn't know the make and model, so I described a TT bike to her and guessed how much it cost her. She thought I was a psychic. The cost was just less than twice what I paid for my first (new) car.
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