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Singlespeed & Fixed Gear "I still feel that variable gears are only for people over forty-five. Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailer? We are getting soft...As for me, give me a fixed gear!"-- Henri Desgrange (31 January 1865 - 16 August 1940)

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Old 02-15-06, 10:08 PM
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So welcome to the gettodome

gettodome practice will comence tomorrow night 10pm...
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drome?
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I guess. it's a play on the public enemy song welcome to the terrordome, but it is a gettodrome...
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are you serious... it's not even march yet (=
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come out well be doing laps till we're warm.

(i've edited this twice for spelling, i think i inhaled to much wood dust in the shop tonight)

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I've got so much trouble on my mind
refuse to lose
here's your ticket
hear the drummer get wicked
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I've got a gig tonight, but otherwise I'm glad to hear about this. Doesn't it conflict with Risk night, though?
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Woah...Don't post pics that bring my childhood crashing back upon me...mkay?
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oh it is thursday isn't it ... I can't make it up tonight ... oh well.
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Is there seriously a place in Boston not covered in 2 feet of snow?
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is this like welcome to the dollhouse?
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Is there seriously a place in Boston not covered in 2 feet of snow?
It's been 50 degrees for the past few days. pretty much everything in the sun is melted.
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Of course the remaining wet stuff freezes up at night, but don't worry, it's "grippy ice".
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Ghetto?
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Originally Posted by lala
Ghetto?
It's a running track ... rubber surface ... in Cambridge @ MIT ... hence Ghettodrome.

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yeah and thats cuz Cambridge is WICKED GHETTO KID >>> watch the **** out!
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Oh man... a guy who was out at *our* ghettodrome was talking about that MIT track. Gotta love that surface. Man.
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Originally Posted by stickyfoot
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+1!!!!!!!!
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Originally Posted by Matthew A Brown
Oh man... a guy who was out at *our* ghettodrome was talking about that MIT track. Gotta love that surface. Man.
Was his name either Henry or Brian?
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Originally Posted by lala
Ghetto?
I'm glad someone finally got it right.
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Originally Posted by Alexi
gettodome practice will comence tomorrow night 10pm...
i don't know what you are talking about and i am way out here in minnesota, but my interest is peaked because i saw the word getto.

can you tell me more about getto dome?
are there ghetto bikes there?
any gnomes?
practice?
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Originally Posted by angel
i don't know what you are talking about and i am way out here in minnesota, but my interest is peaked because i saw the word getto.

can you tell me more about getto dome?
are there ghetto bikes there?
any gnomes?
practice?

READ THE THREAD THE ANSWER LIES WITHIN
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Originally Posted by stickyfoot
Was his name either Henry or Brian?
I don't live in Gainesville (yet), Rob.


the only thing close to ghetto about the MIT track is the near the BU bridge and that schwinn I had at the time.
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