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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 06-07-23, 10:54 AM
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Originally Posted by rjones28
Adaptability is an important life skill. How does this picture illustrate that concept?
I refuse to adapt and pretty sure that I won't be an early adopter, either.
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I braved the perils for a West Knox County cycling experience.

Saw three or four other cyclists along the way.

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Originally Posted by rjones28
I rode down to the bike shop. The air was thicker than usual. Air quality index around 140. By 6pm is was around 200. I did not ride home. Mrs. rjones28 came and took me out for cheesesteaks.
It was awful. Today too. Yet another unprecedented event due to climate change. SMFH
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That’s hot! [rimshot]
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We had a good ride. Only 2 regulars skipped, one a younger woman with asthma, and one an older guy with a worried wife. I yelled at everyone to keep the pace modest, and they mostly behaved.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
And just think, we can't even sue anybody; that must be driving the usually privileged people crazy.
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Originally Posted by datlas
We had a good ride. Only 2 regulars skipped, one a younger woman with asthma, and one an older guy with a worried wife. I yelled at everyone to keep the pace modest, and they mostly behaved.
unfortunately you a vol have something in common - you're bossy.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
We had a nice steady breeze out of the south from about 4pm-bedtime (possibly beyond) yesterday, so lots of green!

Obviously I must always visit at the wrong time of the year, because I have NEVER experienced a breeze or anything else to disrupt bone-dry, sizzling, arid conditions while I was in the Phoenix metropolitan area.
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Old 06-07-23, 11:32 AM
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Originally Posted by BillyD
Obviously I must always visit at the wrong time of the year, because I have NEVER experienced a breeze or anything else to disrupt bone-dry, sizzling, arid conditions while I was in the Phoenix metropolitan area.
I gotta say, any place where you can't escape because the planes can't take off is not a place for me.
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Originally Posted by DougRNS
unfortunately you a vol have something in common - you're bossy.
I'm not bossy.
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Originally Posted by datlas
We had a good ride. Only 2 regulars skipped, one a younger woman with asthma, and one an older guy with a worried wife. I yelled at everyone to keep the pace modest, and they mostly behaved.
Anyone have a smoke afterwards?

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Originally Posted by BillyD
And just think, we can't even sue anybody; that must be driving the usually privileged people crazy.
Wait, no one is circulating petitions to sue Canada yet?
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
Anyone have a smoke afterwards?

"Everyone else's air is poisonous. Syracuse's air is toasted!"


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How do you halt a flight headed for somewhere?

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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
How do you halt a flight headed for somewhere?

https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1666504948287250432
SAMs?
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
How do you halt a flight headed for somewhere?

https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1666504948287250432
Re-route to TYS.

Prepare yourself for the onslaught of New Yorkers that were hoping to return from Fla.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
How do you halt a flight headed for somewhere?

https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1666504948287250432
Simple, they get no takeoff clearance.

I'm sure BAM can elaborate.
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Originally Posted by Mojo31
Simple, they get no takeoff clearance.

I'm sure BAM can elaborate.
I gotta see this tonight if it's on any services.

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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
Re-route to TYS.

Prepare yourself for the onslaught of New Yorkers that were hoping to return from Fla.
CNBC said halted, not rerouted.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
Anyone have a smoke afterwards?
We know the doc probably likes Camels.
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Originally Posted by big john
We know the doc probably likes Camels.
My Grandfather the doctor apparently smoked some kind of menthol cigarettes (Salem?), but my Mom smoked unfiltered Camels for about 30 years.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
CNBC said halted, not rerouted.
You know that they do the same things when there are storms over airports.

Just the other night there were big storms over DFW, and all flights in were halted
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I get why the PYT is on the podium, but why the old, frumpy looking folks?

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Originally Posted by genejockey
My Grandfather the doctor apparently smoked some kind of menthol cigarettes (Salem?), but my Mom smoked unfiltered Camels for about 30 years.
One of my smoking buddies had a father who was a chiropodist and he smoked Camels and his wife smoked Lucky Strikes. When all the damning info became hard to ignore, he assured us that he had "built up immunity" and he would never be harmed by smoking. We rarely stole his Camels but we did grab some Luckys from the Mom.

My mother smoked True cigarettes and my father liked Di Nobili cigars.
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Oh! I forgot. 22 miles this morning, at around 11 mph.
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