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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 01-12-20, 06:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Wait, people listen to music on speakers while riding a bicycle?
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Yes, blasting it to the air. It's unfortunately common here.
Happens here, too, but usually only on chariry rides or the MUPs; not too common on typical road rides.
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Originally Posted by LAJ
We don't troll here.
What is it you'd say we do here?

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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
The fat bike race was cancelled because 1/2" of snow?
A Nordic ski race got cancelled this past weekend for lack of snow.
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
i’ve yet to see the speaker. The guys I group ride with are 30 years senior to me, I can imagine trying to work a blue tooth would be quite hard for them.

When I solo ride, I typically have head phones in. Music is just loud enough to help mask the wind noise, but not loud enough where I can’t hear a car. I have the bontrager quantum helmet and If you go faster than 5 miles per hour you would think you were in a wind tunnel simulating light speed.
I was in VA over the holidays (in-laws live in Williamsburg) and did completed my Festive 500. Roadies there don't wave very much. What's up with that?
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Originally Posted by krecik
Time will tell...
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Today could be the day.
It could?
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
I was in VA over the holidays (in-laws live in Williamsburg) and did completed my Festive 500. Roadies there don't wave very much. What's up with that?
Im too focused on clipping in to notice. That’s pretty cool, i’m right down the road from williamsburg. Worked at busch gardens when I was in high school. My family and I ate at Fat tuna christmas day.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
They just played Alice in Chains at the football stadium! Cuz Green Bay has no good music
GB is looking excellent. Nice to see a game with some defense.
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
My family and I ate at Fat tuna christmas day.
Hmmm. Never been. The in-laws don't like eating at establishments with fewer than 200 locations and I usually sneak out to little Mexican joints when I have time to myself (why are there so many good hole-in-the-wall Mexican places there?). Worth the visit?
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Originally Posted by Bah Humbug
GB is looking excellent. Nice to see a game with some defense.
That second touchdown wasn't a touchdown

But yes excellent defensive play in this game.
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I would like to see both GB and SEA lose.
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
Hmmm. Never been. The in-laws don't like eating at establishments with fewer than 200 locations and I usually sneak out to little Mexican joints when I have time to myself (why are there so many good hole-in-the-wall Mexican places there?). Worth the visit?
Its pretty good sea food, family friend owns it, he owns most of the restaurants in williamsburg. Can’t say much about the mexican. My wife doesn’t like mexican food, and I gave up years ago trying to get her to go. In Newport News there a small place creatively called chihuahuas which is really good.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
A Nordic ski race got cancelled this past weekend for lack of snow.
How do you know? Were you an entrant?
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People here don't get it.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
How do you know? Were you an entrant?
You don’t keep track of that sort of thing?
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
How do you know? Were you an entrant?
He did get new skis recently...
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Originally Posted by DougRNS
I don't Strava.
Why not?
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Does it report the water consumption in ounces? If so, was it a whole number less than 1?
Important details about the ride:

I only wore shorts.

No food or water consumed.

Mehaffey Road as you enter Anderson County and descend off Copper Ridge is garbage. I had to ride my brakes because the pavement is so worn it's like bad chip seal. And then there's scattered pebbles up the road for quite a ways, What's up with that?

Some bulls mooed disapprovingly at me as I passed, I felt like I was being heckled.

60F afternoon, I started at 3:00 p.m. and rode till sunset--I think I saw one other cyclist in 42 miles.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Not only that, I found the street you live on.
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Don't die upon entering the Hall, Jimmy.
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Originally Posted by LAJ
After Mrs. LAJ saw that truck video, I was the recipient of a Fly6 and an Apple watch, with the SOS feature..
Score!
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
Hmmm. Never been. The in-laws don't like eating at establishments with fewer than 200 locations and I usually sneak out to little Mexican joints when I have time to myself (why are there so many good hole-in-the-wall Mexican places there?). Worth the visit?
That's awesome. That made me laugh.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
UPDATE: It was. First ride of 2020.

Discuss.

https://www.strava.com/activities/3006466997
Admirable.
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Originally Posted by LAJ
More importantly, did you see there's a cake shop called Ding Dongs there?
Not anymore. They closed and became the Bespoke Café Lounge.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
That second touchdown wasn't a touchdown

But yes excellent defensive play in this game.
Jones between the tackles? I thought it looked short from the sides, but the top view looked good to me. Certainly wouldn't overturn the call on the field either way based on replay.
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
You don’t keep track of that sort of thing?
I relied on my gut in determining that all Knoxville Nordic ski races were cancelled this weekend.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
Not anymore. They closed and became the Bespoke Café Lounge.
I like Ding Dongs better. Though, being in Wales, wouldn't be more authentic if it were spelled. Dynngg Donnggs?
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