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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 05-28-21, 03:27 PM
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I don't know how to do a wheelie. Should that be my summer project?

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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
I don't know how to do a wheelie. Should that be my summer project?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z26ibReV-MU
Depends. Do you have the wheelie gene? I don't.
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Originally Posted by big john
Depends. Do you have the wheelie gene? I don't.
Not yet.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Not yet.
My friend Will, besides doing no-handed track stands, can wheelie anywhere and do front wheel "stoppies". Only guy I've seen do stoppies on a road bike, at least in our club.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Correct.
YOLO.

There aren't any near the Velo Vol Estates. But, where I went Tuesday for my swimming activity, they're buzzing all over the trees. It's madness.
YOLO, so don’t do egregiously stupid ****.
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wuts a stoppie
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
wuts a stoppie
When you stop, with rear tire up in the air
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
wuts a stoppie
Nose wheelie.
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Originally Posted by big john
Pass.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Pass.
If you don't have a front brake you can jam your foot in your fork
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Originally Posted by big john
Nose wheelie.
But without going ass over teakettle. Anyone can brake hard enough to lift the back wheel, but mostly it's the prelude to going OTB.
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I've done a stoppie at 15 mph and super manned over the front handlebars on a busy street. Almost got run over by a minivan. My wheel got caught in a storm drain.... took about a year to recover.
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Whew. One bar completed. I'm exhausted.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Whew. One bar completed. I'm exhausted.
Greater Jefferson City is getting some precipitation. good thing you're engaging in indoor maintenance activities.
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For whom?
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Originally Posted by Jack Tone
What is that computer mount?
Bar Fly
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High of 50F here today. Rained all afternoon. Still raining.
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High of 50F here today. Rained all afternoon. Still raining.
I would say #YearWithoutSummer, but maybe that is summer there?
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Originally Posted by sshakari
I've done a stoppie at 15 mph and super manned over the front handlebars on a busy street. Almost got run over by a minivan. My wheel got caught in a storm drain.... took about a year to recover.
That's not a stoppie, that's an endo. Sorry you had to go through that.
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That's not a stoppie, that's an endo. Sorry you had to go through that.
I was just making fun of myself. It was on Victory near the busway before Sepulveda.
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Slow night. Everyone must be looking for supper.

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The cub couldn't reach them.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Whew. One bar completed. I'm exhausted.
I’m getting stressed worrying about you wrapping your bars.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Slow night. Everyone must be looking for supper.
Not me. I was on the road, not trying for PRs but getting them anyway. The 32 year old Schwinn with its quaint downtube shifters kicks ass.
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