I know I do. :D

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thanks scrod

posting the complete in the proper thread

Today I had a fun, but soggy 48 miles.

Today I went to an LBS in the little town of San Rafael, Costa Rica where I'm living for the semester. I saw this guy hanging up on the wall:
http://i.imgur.com/PVuTJ.jpg
I hadn't seen another track bike the whole time I've been here so I asked the shopkeeper about it. He said it was his bike when he used to race. He trained in Cuba and has raced throughout North America including Quebec, Pennsylvania, San Jose, and a few other places. The bike was a Specialized lugged steel frame with Dura Ace components. It was high up so I couldn't tell everything. He gave me the name of a coach at the San Jose, CR velodrome and said if I mentioned him, he might let me try out a bike on the track! He said his racing career has been over for a while but apparently he was pretty good in his day. According to my host family his father was a mechanic for some Costa Rican national bike racing team.

Today i was bored
http://i1292.photobucket.com/albums/...psf41f2b5a.jpgbefore http://i1292.photobucket.com/albums/...psde02a664.jpgafter

Oops.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb...1xwho1_500.jpg

Those insertion marks are hard to look at, oof. :(


Thank god for brakes?

twss

I just love 40 minute phone calls with crying girlfriends.

Margaritas at 4, beers from 4-8, more margaritas at 9, bed? NEVER!! Oh, and I went to a bike shop and looked around.

Aren't they just the best?

Especially when I have lab reports to write.

Oof.

That's why living together is better. You can just surf bikeforums with one hand and hold her with the other arm. It's win/win.

Like I can't hold the phone with one hand? C'mon man.

those kinds of calls always seem to happen in situations like this, sucks

Yeah... blows. Big time.

what was your technique? I've got the same seat post I'd like to do this with.

Sorry, man. I didn't mean to break her heart.

You son of a *****.

upgraded my commuter bike

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Cantis, nonetheless.

last night i had a dream that i found vintage campy hubs that some how used those spokes you tighten on the hub side (cant remember what they were called)

/randombikedreams

today i go to king of prussia mall and buy all the clothes!

i got 36T to work on my apex bike by screwing with the B Tension screwbeedoobee.
YMMV IANABM

Today a cyclist was killed because he swerved to avoid getting doored and ended up under the wheels of a semi.

This is on my route for my daily commute. If I hadn't overslept this morning and ended up taking the bus for part of my commute, I very likely could have been in the area right when this happened - either seen it, or come upon the scene afterwards... I'm really hit hard by this.

This particular stretch is absolutely a nightmare to ride. It's technically an official Bike Route and a striped bike lane, but the road surface is absolutely a mess, with patched and repatched potholes and poorly repaired utility work. (The road is so torn up that you can't even see the bike line striping anymore.) Add to that the fact that it's right in front of a high school, so there are kids running across the street and tons of cars dropping off their kids at school, not paying attention at all. And big old school buses blocking the bike lane.

I hate how the article says the cyclist "turned suddenly to avoid an open car door" - when we all know the car door opened suddenly in front of him. THAT was the unexpected action that caused the death but they write it as if it was the cyclist who behaved erratically. GRAR.

Now this man - and who knows, we share the same commute, it's possible I'd recognize him or have passed or been passed by him before - is dead. Because some driver was too distracted/thoughtless/stupid to look before opening a door. Sigh.