The world's tallest bicycle, in Cuba, needs a few chains...

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11-28-16, 10:39 PM

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I'm gonna see how all this pans out,think it'll be a good trip can't be that much traveling from New Orleans ill bring a bike and leave it down there,,, what do you mean about having a real coca cola, don't tell they use the original recipe??

12-01-16, 04:36 PM

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what do you mean about having a real coca cola, don't tell they use the original recipe??

They probably use real sugar instead of HFCS. Pepsi every once in a while offers "throwback" Pepsi made with real sugar. You can definitely taste the difference.

12-01-16, 04:50 PM

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Hmmm I drink one coke a day,,,,

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Originally Posted by Straw_Cat

I'm looking forward to having "real" coca cola, and a Cuban cigar... even if I did quit smoking 13 months ago... (Cuban cigars in Cuba don't count... my drummer and his wife went to Cuba and brought us all back some decent cigars...and neither of them smoke, and rest of the band (other than me) didn't smoke then... )

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Straw_Cat

A friend of mine from 30+ years ago had another friend who'd send him small boxes of Cuban cigars from Canada; he shared one with me. Nice smoke! AT the time, the advertising hook from Thompson was "Cuban Seed" cigars, with tobacco grown in the Dominican Republic and/or Nicaragua. At THAT time, they tasted pretty similar. a decade later, not so much.

I'd LOVE to have a good Cuban cigar again...even though I've had exactly 6 cigarillos in 15 years (quit smoking the end of '01, had the 6 this past fall).

03-27-17, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Straw_Cat

The builder and owner of this bicycle, which is 10 meters tall, needs some chains so he can finish and ride the bike and gain a Guinness World Record.

See the video dated Sept 15th, 2016, at:
A Cuban man built the world's tallest bike, but can't get it in the Guinness Book of World Records ? Quartz

I assume he needs the wider old size of chains.

I have no idea how to contact him. :-(

Cheers,

Chris Green.

The last issue of bicycle times # 46 came today,it features a very good article of cycling Cuba has information on where and how to go,,,,