Lance riding with the Mash crew
09-21-08 | 08:18 PM
#127
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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.
09-21-08 | 08:41 PM
#128
i'll probably break it
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agreed. choosing a career path that is dangerous and getting az$hole cancer or whatever is not the same thing.
09-21-08 | 08:52 PM
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09-21-08 | 09:55 PM
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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.
09-22-08 | 06:58 AM
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09-22-08 | 07:08 AM
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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.
09-22-08 | 07:36 AM
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This is Africa, 1943. War spits out its violence overhead and the sandy graveyard swallows it up. Her name is King Nine, B-25, medium bomber, Twelfth Air Force. On a hot, still morning she took off from Tunisia to bomb the southern tip of Italy. An errant piece of flak tore a hole in a wing tank and, like a wounded bird, this is where she landed, not to return on this day, or any other day.
09-22-08 | 08:32 AM
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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.
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.
09-22-08 | 08:43 AM
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09-22-08 | 12:11 PM
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cadences
Cadence analisis, in a brazilian Forum:
https://www.pedal.com.br/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1804
https://www.pedal.com.br/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1804
09-22-08 | 12:22 PM
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cavernmech had the name wrong, you got your ****ing head wrong junior
09-22-08 | 01:27 PM
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kinda useless.
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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.
09-22-08 | 01:41 PM
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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.
09-22-08 | 01:47 PM
#146
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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?
09-22-08 | 01:54 PM
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switching to guns
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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
