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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 07-31-17, 05:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Trsnrtr
Does it count as shoreline if you can walk out over the water 3-4 months of the year?
Of course!
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Originally Posted by DougRNS
Guilty as charged. I am on BF now so I am catching up as fast as I can. Unfortunately, I also learned that my crabon fork is about to asplode momentarily.
You have been very attentive.
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Originally Posted by Trsnrtr
Does it count as shoreline if you can walk out over the water 3-4 months of the year?
Depends what your name is.
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Originally Posted by seedsbelize
Careful. I think that first one is rpk79.
OUCH.

But seriously, I doubt he would purposely post a picture so unflattering of himself here. Which may explain why we know nothing of how some of us look.
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Old 07-31-17, 06:42 PM
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Originally Posted by RPK79
1. Let's see you grab an uncapped water bottle of that style from a bike without it squirting all over!
Oh I see, so those are uncapped screw-top bottles as opposed to the twist top type which for some reason I assumed they were.

Well if you don't ask you'll never know.
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Old 07-31-17, 06:48 PM
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Originally Posted by BillyD
OUCH.

But seriously, I doubt he would purposely post a picture so unflattering of himself here. Which may explain why we know nothing of how some of us look.
Unflattering? I do it all of the time.

#nothingtohide
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
A majority of the time when people say they're going to the beach it's either FL or SC, it seems.
Maybe where you are. In these parts we don't go to the beach at all, we go to the shore and it's either Jersey or Delaware.
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I was poking around the internet and found sonething interesting, I will leave it here:

Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!...Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridges, threading crowds, avoiding collisions, at twenty miles or more an hour, and wondering all the time when you're going to smash up. Well, now, that's something! And then go home again after three hours of it...and then to think that tomorrow I can do it all over again!
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Originally Posted by topslop1
I'm trying to do 60 this weekend, then maybe a 75 the next weekend, and then a 100 the weekend after. Too quick for ramp up? Will I die?
The problem I've always encountered is that the difficulty begins at the 80 mile mark. YMMV
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
Well, seeing at MN has more shoreline than CA, FL, and HI combined*...

*= if you include rivers
Originally Posted by datlas
Maybe where you are. In these parts we don't go to the beach at all, we go to the shore and it's either Jersey or Delaware.
wut

He said beach. What's this talk of a shoreline?
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Originally Posted by Heathpack
Le sigh.

Le sigh, indeed.

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Pics of your bicycle near the shoreline. #Facepalm

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Also, not pictured above:

CYCLING ACHEIVEMENT UNLOCKED: Caught a dude in full matching rainbow stripe kit and dropped him.

He sure looked like he was in way better shape than me...
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Originally Posted by seedsbelize
Big news!! This morning I rolled out of the hammock and went to work for the first time since June 27th. I'll be back on the road bike soon.
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Originally Posted by rpenmanparker
Hi! What's this thread about?
Duathlons.
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Originally Posted by Pirkaus
Overexcited about the water?

They're not out of shape, round is a shape, right?
Correct
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Originally Posted by datlas
I saw that too.

Hey, is it possible to set the forums so that a thread older than a certain age (eg. 3 months or 1 year or whatever) can only be bumped by the OP?? That would solve the zombie thread issue.
I don't see the problem.
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
Just returned from a family trip to the beach. I may have compromised my carefully cultivated cycling tan.
Oh boy.
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Old 07-31-17, 08:41 PM
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Originally Posted by jtaylor996
Also, not pictured above:

CYCLING ACHEIVEMENT UNLOCKED: Caught a dude in full matching rainbow stripe kit and dropped him.

He sure looked like he was in way better shape than me...
Threadworthy.
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Originally Posted by LAJ
Hand ups to a bike with those flimsy little bottles equal nothing but trouble.
Shoulda just used water balloons.
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Old 07-31-17, 08:47 PM
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
Just returned from a family trip to the beach. I may have compromised my carefully cultivated cycling tan.
My farmer tan is so permanent by now.
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Originally Posted by Heathpack
Le sigh.
Back at work now?
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
wut

He said beach. What's this talk of a shoreline?
That's usually where they keep the beaches.
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Originally Posted by f4rrest
Back at work now?
Tomorrow....
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I'm trying to decide if I'm up for a 12 hour MTB race. And if it would be better to get on a 2 or 4 rider relay team.
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