[QUOTE=Mayonnaise]Where is it written that I have to be Jesus Buddha Gandhi on my bicycle? QUOTE]


FWIW, I thought your story was entertaining. Anyway, it's not like you threw him off the bike and stomped on his head. He'll get over it.

Why does it have to be Kerouac? There's plenty of other stream of conciousness writers out there. William S. Burroughs, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner all come to mind. I don't see this as a knock-off of anyone, but merely a literal explanation of a typical event on the bike path. We've all been there with our little bike-path ego battles whether we like to admit it or not. Hearing the creak of a bike coming up from behind us our legs automatically spin a little faster. Some old fart passes us on his 40 lb. mountain bike and it causes a damaging confusion in our psyche. Some d1ck gives you lip on the bike path, and you can either roll your eyes and ride on, or stick it too him. You'll still make it to where you're going either way. Mayo just spent the time to write his experience down for all of our reading entertainment. Although I personally think the bundle of sticks reference was childish, in this case the bike path was certainly the proper time and place to partake in such a frivolous battle. I'm getting tired of reading about squeaky bottom brackets and how to remove decals with a blow dryer. We're bike riders, and Mayo was out riding a bike.

FX John, is that Captian Beefheart? If so
"bromo seltzer blue umbrella"

Some people have to always have to react.....dude, why didnt you just blow by the guy and keep silent! slowing up to harrass the guy and calling him a F****** and then taunting him to race you. The guy in no way posed a challenge to you and yet you embarresed him for calling you "postie boy!", I would not call that a situation where the circumstances demand you take action and how did you put it "fight it out in the collesium". How many times did you look back to see where he was, probably ten or more...., take my advice, grow an extra thick layer of skin and JUST RIDE ON!

sure, i used the word a couple of times when i was a kid, and then i learned why it was wrong to use it, and i stopped.

i think using racial, ethinic, or sexual slurs is wrong, and when i hear/see people using them i speak up.

(often people then apologize, realizing that what they've said or written is inappropriate or hurtful/damaging in some way.)

the first amendment protects your right to express yourself any way you like, and i support that. it also protects my right to disagree with the way you express yourself, and to call you out on it.

One more thing, if some rider comes up next to me and says : "dont F@@k with mayonnaise" I would fall of my bike laughing! Give me a break!

C'mon y'all. Do your homework. This is classic Mayo. Race- religion- sexual-orientation-baiting ... he pushes the buttons and everybody jumps.

Check out the Jungle post or the one about the woman that may or may not have been Jewish.

Anyway, back to it ... let the outrage commence.

dude was fighting it out in the coliseum, give him a break. you know how you can say dumb things when the adrenaline's flowing. and the bloodlust...and hatred and spittle and all that. heated!

Haha.

Mayo shall now be known as postie boy. woot!

Free advice is priced right.

He was telling a story, not looking for advice.

Finally, someone who gets it.
I am here today because my legs are so sore from a 70 mile race yesterday that I can hardly walk.
Get out there and Ride Hard.
As mentioned, the jersey was a gift from the Duchess, and belittling it, belittles her. I rode to protect her honor, as she laboured to pick something for me that expresses her love. Had he mentioned my helmet, gloves, or chain I would have said, "ride on fa@@...er..darling."

Moral of the story. Don't make smartass comments to anyone wearing a US Postal jersey riding a Masi converted fixed?

I liked the story. Not everything you read has to be politically correct to be entertaining.

Postie Boy rides hard
wearing jersey from Duchess
wants to become Duke

Enjoy

The thread title had me thinking you had written something about Torrin.

At least you're honest, Mayo. On the way back from my lunch ride today I called a septuagenarian in the crosswalk a "*****stain" after he lambasted me for riding too fast

I thought it was about Pig Payback!

and I am a woman and i can do the same chit and so can a "******" cause i know a lot of them that are tough. But eitherway, don't let these haters hate on you, that chit was pretty damn funny.

finally some content I can chew on. all of the latest decal this, clips or straps that... what's a trackstand here, how-do-i-skid there... it all sucks. what is messenger? what bag should i buy?

mayo...reminds me of one of the first things the love of my life bought me years ago...a black, grey, and darker grey timbuktu bag. my 3 favorite colors. now, its been thru hell, and would I really love to rock a bag that these cta-ridin' clowns don't own? sure... but i have a loyalty to another human partly expressed thru the wearing of a certain nostalgic bag.

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That was so politically incorrect and angry... and funny. You really know how to stir up a crowd mayo. Remind me never to call you "postie"...I think that is so funny..Its like someone coming up to me while I am on my bike and saying "HEY BIKIE!" Oh man!!! I think I would just want to KILL if someone said that!!!

hehehehe! You're a riot dude!

I would have just blown a kiss at him and blasted off. Calling people ******s is so middle school.

But it still works.....and if they get offended..they are also "so middle school"

FXjohn, your logic boggles my mind.


by the way, Mayo, while I abhor your attitude and language, I've got to thank you for posting. Your anecdotes are always interesting and this forum's been pretty dull lately.

if they get offended theyre "so middle school"? wow. obviously there's different tolerances amongst different people for using slurs amongst strangers. personally I'd avoid that term, especially as a cyclist in the midwest, where that's hands down the most common "insult" shouted by passing morons in trucks. but then, Im also not one to have bike path time trials with dudes on huffys either so maybe Im coming at this from a different place.

Being too mature to be offended by juvenile name calling is beyond your mental grasp?
Allright.

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