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Originally Posted by onetwentyeight
(Post 7509496)
garretts wheel is an older zipp wheel if I recall correctly. I talked to ranier, emi, and dirt about their experience riding with lance, and they had a great time in Texas. The all said lance is (as one would imagine) fast as hell, and were quite humbled and honored by the chance to pedal around with him. I've never been a big armstrong fan, but im happy to hear he's human enough to ride with the mash kids.
and to respond to an earlier comment a few pages back, some of the mash crew are messengers, and some of them arent. Lance has probably put more mileage on fixed gears than half of those Mash Guys combined. |
Everybody take a deep breath. Geez. LA seems like a totally cool guy. I've watched him in so many videos... 100 mile mountain bike races all the way to this MASH thing. Just shows that he enjoys riding a bike. Doesn't matter which kind or style as long as you're ridin.
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Originally Posted by fluidworks
(Post 7506387)
It'd be easy for someone like Lance to pshaw the fixed scene, but it's cool he is down to earth enough to be involved.
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Originally Posted by alaska
(Post 7513938)
wrong.
he's had that wheel for years. it's either a zipp or hed. Check out H Plus Son's wheels though - They're sweet. |
Originally Posted by cavernmech
(Post 7514946)
yeah. It's also cool that when a bunch of people in the "fixed scene" started with the Livewrong bracelets, which gave some proceeds to the Bike Messenger Emergency Fund....he sicked his lawyers on them and shut it down. That is soo cool! He could've looked the other way considering the relatively minor amount of $ involved and had a chuckle about it. Instead he was a d00che.
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Originally Posted by Adam G.
(Post 7515330)
I support Lance for doing that. Livewrong?! how immature. Either face the facts that being a bike messenger you will not have insurance and if you get messed up it's on you. Or look for a different career path.
agreed. choosing a career path that is dangerous and getting az$hole cancer or whatever is not the same thing. |
Originally Posted by dobber
(Post 7512957)
I'd think it ironic for you to die of colon cancer.
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Originally Posted by Cadd
(Post 7503450)
Nope. I doubt anyone could hold Lance off (hence the 7 Tour wins). I just said he dropped Lance like a hot rock. Whether he did it while Lance wasn't ready, wasn't racing, or whatever, it doesn't matter. It just shows that this kid has the power to go. I don't know how many people can even ride with Lance...at a pace that's not snail pace for him...let alone accelerate away from him. For that alone, I personally give this kid a lot of props.
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Originally Posted by Adam G.
(Post 7515330)
I support Lance for doing that. Livewrong?! how immature. Either face the facts that being a bike messenger you will not have insurance and if you get messed up it's on you. Or look for a different career path.
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Originally Posted by 91MF
(Post 7515479)
agreed. choosing a career path that is dangerous and getting az$hole cancer or whatever is not the same thing.
Calling a job that pays so little and has zero benefit's a "career" is a joke. When I quit messing many years ago you could realistically expect to make $100 a day....this is what the pay was 10 years previous to that. Fast forward 10 more years and most of the people messing are lucky to make that much. almost 20 years with zero increase in pay. Stinking socialists trying to make their lot in life a little better...shame on them. |
what the @$%#@ ever
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Originally Posted by azukisingle
(Post 7517285)
what the @$%#@ ever
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Originally Posted by dobber
(Post 7517317)
What an absolutely super site..................
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Originally Posted by cavernmech
(Post 7517201)
Did you ever think for a minute that many of these people don't have a choice? That they do the job out of necessity to...you know...keep a roof over their head's and food in their stomach's?
Calling a job that pays so little and has zero benefit's a "career" is a joke. When I quit messing many years ago you could realistically expect to make $100 a day....this is what the pay was 10 years previous to that. Fast forward 10 more years and most of the people messing are lucky to make that much. almost 20 years with zero increase in pay. Stinking socialists trying to make their lot in life a little better...shame on them. |
Originally Posted by Adam G.
(Post 7515330)
Either face the facts that being a bike messenger you will not have insurance and if you get messed up it's on you. Or look for a different career path.
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Anybody know the name of the band/song in the 'indy 50' and the 'mash trailer' clips?
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this may have been asked before, does anyone know the song? is it zeppelin?
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Originally Posted by andre nickatina
(Post 7502233)
i'd probably bet that since they're all on tarck bikes, the guy who drops lance has a bit larger gear ratio than everyone else.
o rly? |
cadences
Cadence analisis, in a brazilian Forum:
http://www.pedal.com.br/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1804 |
Originally Posted by Adam G.
(Post 7515330)
I support Lance for doing that. Livewrong?! how immature. Either face the facts that being a bike messenger you will not have insurance and if you get messed up it's on you. Or look for a different career path.
cavernmech had the name wrong, you got your ****ing head wrong junior |
Originally Posted by 91MF
(Post 7515479)
agreed. choosing a career path that is dangerous and getting az$hole cancer or whatever is not the same thing.
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Originally Posted by lukewall
(Post 7515894)
Just stop right there and tell BF that you don't know the difference between a 7 time TDF winner and a bunch of kids on track bikes. The lack of intelligence on BF is unbelieveable. Last time i checked, LA came in 2nd at leadville without any real training for that race. I'm not sure many of the mash guys would even finish that race.
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Originally Posted by imthewalrus
(Post 7520186)
please qualify this statement. just because lance armstrong professionally competes and the mash kids don't doesn't mean that they are not also strong riders. the only difference is that lance has proved his ability, and the mash crew hasn't, but that does not imply that they cannot ride. I'm not saying they can or can't, but let's not jump to conclusions.
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Originally Posted by imthewalrus
(Post 7520186)
please qualify this statement. just because lance armstrong professionally competes and the mash kids don't doesn't mean that they are not also strong riders. the only difference is that lance has proved his ability, and the mash crew hasn't, but that does not imply that they cannot ride. I'm not saying they can or can't, but let's not jump to conclusions.
Have you ever even met/ridden with a CAT 3 roadie? |
Originally Posted by cavernmech
(Post 7514946)
yeah. It's also cool that when a bunch of people in the "fixed scene" started with the Livewrong bracelets, which gave some proceeds to the Bike Messenger Emergency Fund....he sicked his lawyers on them and shut it down. That is soo cool! He could've looked the other way considering the relatively minor amount of $ involved and had a chuckle about it. Instead he was a d00che.
that sucks ball :( |
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