Exactly 200 Years Ago Today?
02-17-18, 03:11 PM
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02-17-18, 03:43 PM
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We've come a long way baby.
It does have one advantage that modern bikes do not have.
On rainy days you could iron your clothes on it.
It does have one advantage that modern bikes do not have.
On rainy days you could iron your clothes on it.
02-17-18, 05:24 PM
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If you described it as a straight-bar, brake-free, through-axel, pedi-geared urban bike made from renewable resources,you could probably get some hipsters to commute on it.
02-18-18, 11:49 AM
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02-18-18, 06:10 PM
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Funny you should say that,,,, today I bought a 2012 cervelos S2 , pristine condition $300.00 with a botranger pump and all accessories in the under seat bag,,,, white beautiful ,aero bars and the computer,,,, bought it from a woman had it for sale over a year wanted $1200.00 nobody wanted it,,,, I offered $300.00 last week she said yes come get,,,, I did....
02-19-18, 12:10 AM
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"Where will you put the spokes for those wheels?"
"I don't know yet; I'll put 'em in there someplace. Say, I'm out of beer, could you go get me some more?"
"Sure."
"I don't know yet; I'll put 'em in there someplace. Say, I'm out of beer, could you go get me some more?"
"Sure."
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02-21-18, 09:30 AM
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Yes. Search "dandy horse". Skinny jeans are nothing new.
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02-21-18, 11:30 AM
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I don't understand what took them so long. Why technology was so hilariously basic such a short time ago. Generally speaking, i mean.
02-21-18, 12:14 PM
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A lot of stuff from the industrialisation works because of precision engineering, standardized measures and tolerances and sophisticated metallurgy. It's not just about the idea. Before the bike and train, ideas had difficulty spreading, comining and multiplying.
02-21-18, 02:49 PM
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Metallurgy and the ability to machine metals was still pretty rudimentary as was welding. Acetylene wasn't discovered until 1836. Steels of the time where really "steel" but iron contaminated with carbon and the only way to join it was using blacksmithing techniques of heating the steel and pounding it together. Making a steel bicycle in 1818 was next to impossible because you couldn't join the metals easily nor did you have the materials to make them.
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Solo Without Pie. The search for pie in the Midwest.
Picking the Scablands. Washington and Oregon, 2005. Pie and spiders on the Columbia River!
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