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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 09-15-21, 02:58 PM
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^^^^I just don't get it. And that's all I have to say about that.
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Originally Posted by seedsbelize2
^^^^I just don't get it. And that's all I have to say about that.
Don’t worry. I am unlikely to spend that much for a pair of off-season wheels. Will scrounge for something eventually.
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
Yeah, that's what they're currently set up for, but will also do 15mm on the front or QR.
I looked up what people are asking for Reynolds Assaults on Ebay, and yeah, they ARE too rich for my blood.
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Originally Posted by datlas
Don’t worry. I am unlikely to spend that much for a pair of off-season wheels. Will scrounge for something eventually.
Why would you want to afflict yourself with anything worse at your advanced age and at that price? The damn things will outlast you too!
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Originally Posted by seedsbelize2
I've never seen Bladerunner
Same.
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Old 09-15-21, 03:21 PM
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I looked up what people are asking for Reynolds Assaults on Ebay, and yeah, they ARE too rich for my blood.
I just looked. Those are priced silly.
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Mrs. GeneJockey is sending me listings on Realtor that are in Buffalo NY. I remember how much snow falls there. I think her plan is to have us retire there, then kill me with snow shovelling the first winter, sell up and move somewhere else.
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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
Why would you want to afflict yourself with anything worse at your advanced age and at that price? The damn things will outlast you too!
Advanced age? Who you calling old? Get off my lawn!
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Mrs. GeneJockey is sending me listings on Realtor that are in Buffalo NY. I remember how much snow falls there. I think her plan is to have us retire there, then kill me with snow shovelling the first winter, sell up and move somewhere else.
Wait. What size are all those bikes again??
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Originally Posted by datlas
Wait. What size are all those bikes again??
Just what I need, an MD conspiring with my wife to kill me.

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Originally Posted by genejockey
Mrs. GeneJockey is sending me listings on Realtor that are in Buffalo NY. I remember how much snow falls there. I think her plan is to have us retire there, then kill me with snow shovelling the first winter, sell up and move somewhere else.
That is not retiring. Nobody lives in Buffalo unless they have to.
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Hmmm. Fellow BF member Psimet2001 has what looks like good quality hand builts much more reasonably priced than those HED wheels. Hmm….
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We still want to retire to Andalucía but life has become quite complicated so not likely. More realistic is spend a few months there each winter but stay in NE the rest of the year. That’s assuming covid situation better in a few years, of course.
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We still want to retire to Andalucía but life has become quite complicated so not likely. More realistic is spend a few months there each winter but stay in NE the rest of the year. That’s assuming covid situation better in a few years, of course.
I had such hope last Spring, but it ran head on into a world of Stupid.
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Originally Posted by genejockey
I had such hope last Spring, but it ran head on into a world of Stupid.
Yes. Too much uncertainty to make firm plans.
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Originally Posted by datlas
Yes. Too much uncertainty to make firm plans.
They'll be drinking Betadine next, if they haven't already started.
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Originally Posted by genejockey
They'll be drinking Betadine next, if they haven't already started.
With an Ivermectin chaser.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
"Vermont Agency of Agriculture."

What an odd place.
Single use plastic shopping bags are banned in the state.
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Originally Posted by datlas
Hmmm. Fellow BF member Psimet2001 has what looks like good quality hand builts much more reasonably priced than those HED wheels. Hmm….
A couple guys I know have Psimet wheels. One of them is 265 pounds and the wheels have been durable. Plus, Rob seems like a good guy and I have chatted with him on BF for years.
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Originally Posted by indyfabz
Single use plastic shopping bags are banned in the state.
Does anyone have paper bags? I can remember when they were a thing. #Old
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Originally Posted by datlas
You can always jump to ******. I hear they don’t have a lot of rules.

edit: censor strikes! Red dit
You're right, they don't have a lot of rules. A friend linked me to a car mechanic page on there. After reading it for a while I joined in. Some of the guys are really funny! I identify with a lot of their stories, having spent decades in the business, and I've shared some of my experiences with them.

The pages there spawn other pages, or "subs". Like the mechanics post pictures of customer cars with trash inside, and another whole sub starts called "Carbage".
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
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Vermont does.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Does anyone have paper bags? I can remember when they were a thing. #Old
WinCo does.
Bonus: open 24 hours.
Bonus #2: you get to bag all your own groceries.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
WinCo does.
Never heard of it.
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Never heard of it.
You need to get out more.
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