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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 02-27-24, 07:35 PM
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Originally Posted by bampilot06

The Fixie was a size too small but honestly felt a lot better. Don’t know the brand but enjoyed the geometry too. Reminded me of my BMX days.
I've never seen anyone ride a fixie mtb.
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Originally Posted by big john
I've never seen anyone ride a fixie mtb.

Actually kind of common here. A lot of them on craigslist.
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Originally Posted by datlas
Wedding pics are fine but thread needs more cat pics.
What it needs is a photo of me and the GF at the Barristers' Ball back in law school.

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Originally Posted by bampilot06
Actually kind of common here. A lot of them on craigslist.
Not singlespeed? Fixed gear on dirt?
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Old 02-27-24, 07:48 PM
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Originally Posted by big john
Not singlespeed? Fixed gear on dirt?

****, I mean single not fixie. Sorry.
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Originally Posted by indyfabz
What it needs is a photo of me and the GF at the Barristers' Ball back in law school.

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Was it 80s themed?
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
****, I mean single not fixie. Sorry.
That's why I was surprised. Plenty of singlespeed mtb riders around. Friend even raced singlespeed cyclocross.
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Originally Posted by big john
That's why I was surprised. Plenty of singlespeed mtb riders around. Friend even raced singlespeed cyclocross.

I use it interchangeably even though I know it’s not. I use coke for all soda too. I blame my Va Edumication.
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Originally Posted by big john
I've never seen anyone ride a fixie mtb.
It is super fun on mellow trails. I have a 6-bolt disc fixie adapter, just 86 that dumb ol' rotor, bolt on the sweet fixie cog, put your rear wheel in backwards and party like it's 1999.
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
I use it interchangeably even though I know it’s not. I use coke for all soda too. I blame my Va Edumication.
In certain circles I run in, Coke actually means Dr Pepper.

Gotta love the South.

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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Is this why you think that most are in all caps? Because yours is?

Did they decorate the cemetery fence?
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
It is super fun on mellow trails. I have a 6-bolt disc fixie adapter, just 86 that dumb ol' rotor, bolt on the sweet fixie cog, put your rear wheel in backwards and party like it's 1999.
Nope.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
If you always pedal you'll never notice the lag
Brilliant!
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
Actually kind of common here. A lot of them on craigslist.
Fixed or single speed with a freewheel?
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Originally Posted by big john
That's why I was surprised. Plenty of singlespeed mtb riders around. Friend even raced singlespeed cyclocross.
There's a pretty strong contingent of single speed CXers around here.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
There's a pretty strong contingent of single speed CXers around here.
I'm not one of them off road.
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Originally Posted by indyfabz
What it needs is a photo of me and the GF at the Barristers' Ball back in law school.

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Like button doesn’t work. Yet again.
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
****, I mean single not fixie. Sorry.
SS MTB bros need to man up and get committed to pedaling at all times.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
In certain circles I run in, Coke actually means Dr Pepper.

Gotta love the South.

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Indeed. You order a Coke, and the waiter will almost always ask, “What flavor would you like?” Answer is, “Dr. Pepper” or “Sprite” or “regular Coke.”
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Fish and Chips report. Damn, that's a big ol' slab o' cod

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Originally Posted by rjones28
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I bet most people acted like it wasn't even there, pretending not to notice, out of politeness.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol

Did they decorate the cemetery fence?
RMOT

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I was surprised to note today that well over 50% of the bikes in the bike room at 8am were drop bar road or gravel bikes. I feel like the flat bars usually have a slight edge.


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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
I bet most people acted like it wasn't even there, pretending not to notice, out of politeness.
They all parked their cars facing the fence.
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