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Top Ten Reasons I Didn't Race (((monstertrack)))

Old 02-18-07, 03:01 AM
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Top Ten Reasons I Didn't Race (((monstertrack)))

10. Brakeless?

9. Allergic to snow.

8. Brought the wrong gear, thought was more of a dogsled race.

7. Got lost in Yonkers.

6. Phil grease confiscated at airport.

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5. It contradicts my 12-step program.

4. I'm totally going next year. I know I said this last year.

3. My roomate owed the wrong dudes for a loan on some NJS parts. They took my bike as collateral.

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2. dutret convinced me that it was stupid.

1. You mean that wierd party on 58th Street with the midgets and the whipped cream...that wasn't MonsterTrack???


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#1-10: i didn't know what time it was and where it started
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The train my friends were trying to take was full and they couldn't get on, so they ended up arriving over 2 hours after registration.

I didn't go because track bikes are for hipsters.

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#1 I live in Australia
#2 I don't have a track bike
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#1 im in teh ch1na
#2 eatin all ur dimsumz
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#19 I had work, int he wrong city :-(
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me? i totally ignored all the details on monstertrack since i was on the opposite coast. what? did it happen already?
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#0 - lazy
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Originally Posted by br995
The train my friends were trying to take was full and they couldn't get on, so they ended up arriving over 2 hours after registration.
is that true? cause that would suck
 
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who won this year?
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Originally Posted by br995
The train my friends were trying to take was full and they couldn't get on, so they ended up arriving over 2 hours after registration.

I didn't go because track bikes are for hipsters.
Your info says Tokyo... that must be one helluva train..
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Originally Posted by goggles
who won this year?
Who else? Not that I was surprised.
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1. I am in de kalifourya (not up to my knees in snow)
2. I am waiting for nacc
3. I am too broke to travel
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#1-#10: i'm ****ing poor as ****. have you seen the rates for tickets? and finding a place to stay? forget it. if you are in new york, participate, otherwise....that **** is made expensive.
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Originally Posted by kludge
and finding a place to stay?
Nobody pays for lodging for Monstertrack in anything but beer and sexual favors. Tonnes of cool folks with comfy floors.
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16. It was my birthday and decided that suffering in NYC wasn't going to be as fun as watching my friend's band I Hate Myself and I Want to Die do their Nirvana cover set.

Plus it was my other friend's last night in town before he heads off to Guatemala.
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Yes, my friends were late because of the train (or that's the excuse they gave me for being late).

And yeah, it's the Transcontinental Tokyo to NYC Bullet Train.
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#20-What's MonsterTrack???
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#x: Alley cats are like critical mass but even worse.

edit:

#1 that whole being 4000 miles away thing or whatever.
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Originally Posted by Serendipper
2. dutret convinced me that it was stupid.

1. You mean that wierd party on 58th Street with the midgets and the whipped cream...that wasn't MonsterTrack???


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haha ha. i love dutret. he is so funny and right all the time. u missed it dipper. it was banannas.
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