A bicycle is a beautiful thing.
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Empathy is a beautiful thing too. Bike therapy definitely has led millions away from a life of self-destruction including my own.
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Oh my gosh, I can't take it anymore. Would someone please PM me the removed political content already?
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It is interesting that someone can relate to health as physical while suggesting their capacity for sympathy can be measured in microns. My health is a combination of physical, mental and emotional/spiritual.
It's entirely possible to feel good about ones current condition without measuring it by the misfortune of others.
Addiction is a terrible disease wirh huge costs to individuals and society. Anyone who's ever had a family member go down that path understands the humanity behind the behavior. Every addict is someone's son or daughter, brother or sister, mother, father, husband or wife.
It's entirely possible to feel good about ones current condition without measuring it by the misfortune of others.
Addiction is a terrible disease wirh huge costs to individuals and society. Anyone who's ever had a family member go down that path understands the humanity behind the behavior. Every addict is someone's son or daughter, brother or sister, mother, father, husband or wife.
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I grew up in a family of alcoholics. They all lived way longer than they deserved. When I watched Frank Shorter win the 1972 Olympic Marathon a lightbulb went off in my head just as it did in the heads of millions of others. Shorter was the Moses of modern fitness and Bill Rogers was the Jesus. Cycling came later because it is a European sport like baseball is American. When I first started running in 1973 people would stop and ask if I wanted a ride. I lost 25 pounds the first year I ran and never looked back. By the way if you want to get faster on hills with your bike drink two beers instead of four and skip that dish of ice cream.
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(edit: I think it was a donkey but may have been a horse, it's been a few years)
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I grew up in a family of alcoholics. They all lived way longer than they deserved. When I watched Frank Shorter win the 1972 Olympic Marathon a lightbulb went off in my head just as it did in the heads of millions of others. Shorter was the Moses of modern fitness and Bill Rogers was the Jesus. Cycling came later because it is a European sport like baseball is American. When I first started running in 1973 people would stop and ask if I wanted a ride. I lost 25 pounds the first year I ran and never looked back. By the way if you want to get faster on hills with your bike drink two beers instead of four and skip that dish of ice cream.
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if you stream of conscious write or use big words or fancy adverbs & ADjetives or complex sentence structure or use literary metaphors or phonetic alliterations or allah forbid lapse into a post modern style the simpleton mob will start thro in smIrks & snarKs your way so be KOOL and don't let BF world simplify you
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Guinness in Ireland, Heineken in Holland , Carlsberg in Denmark , I try to be social with the locals on bicycle tours..
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So I guess anything that isn't rabid anti-Trump is political, but stuff that is is OK.
Got it now.
Honestly I come here to get away from politics, race, covid, you name it so wish people would take that to other sites, but what Ray9 wrote was sincere and non polarizing. Mods should have left it but can also see how they didn't want to deal with it.
Ride your ride.
Got it now.
Honestly I come here to get away from politics, race, covid, you name it so wish people would take that to other sites, but what Ray9 wrote was sincere and non polarizing. Mods should have left it but can also see how they didn't want to deal with it.
Ride your ride.
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I'm glad you got it. I also got it Great info from a 73 year old cyclist that attributes his fitness and health to cycling. I liked it and found it morivational............
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I have a fleet of expensive bicycles and I ride one of them 50 miles a day; I am 73. I saved a lot of money over the years from not purchasing thousands of cartons of cigarettes, a warehouse full of beer and fields of weed. I have sympathy for those who were shoveling powder up their noses 40 years ago when I was running 10 miles a day, but that sympathy can be measured in microns. Live and let live I say and if some choose self-inflicted disease and early death then let it be so. It is a free country so far.
I ride big circles these days so as not to cross state lines during these turbulent times. A ballfield is mostly silent and deserted. They built it and few come. I have no worries about foul balls crossing my path; there has been no one there until very recently.
I just keep peddling. A doctor told me many years ago that when my joints and ligaments began to protest from running impact, I should go to the bicycle. It was advice for the ages.
The sound of rubber on the road and the whir of a chain are music to my ears. My lungs are rich with country air and my legs are stallions! I see, do, and feel things that many can only dream of.
To each his own, it is hard work, but it is hard work that pays. The mechanical advantage of the machine I sit astride requires just the amount of effort necessary to keep the juices of life flowing freely. Gravity and wind speed work for me, not against me.
The hills are my friends while potholes and cracks in the road keep my mind alert. A bicycle is a beautiful thing.
I ride big circles these days so as not to cross state lines during these turbulent times. A ballfield is mostly silent and deserted. They built it and few come. I have no worries about foul balls crossing my path; there has been no one there until very recently.
I just keep peddling. A doctor told me many years ago that when my joints and ligaments began to protest from running impact, I should go to the bicycle. It was advice for the ages.
The sound of rubber on the road and the whir of a chain are music to my ears. My lungs are rich with country air and my legs are stallions! I see, do, and feel things that many can only dream of.
To each his own, it is hard work, but it is hard work that pays. The mechanical advantage of the machine I sit astride requires just the amount of effort necessary to keep the juices of life flowing freely. Gravity and wind speed work for me, not against me.
The hills are my friends while potholes and cracks in the road keep my mind alert. A bicycle is a beautiful thing.
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But now you got me wondering about this donkey picture I missed out on...
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The bicycle is as much a work of art as it is an engineered machine. It is pleasing to the eye in a beautifully symmetrical way. It could not have been fashioned as a tool by a rhinoceros or a giraffe or even a very intelligent ape. Only human minds working in tandem could bring it from its essence to the final piece; and we are not done yet. Putting on a futurist's hat I see the arrow of time producing a flying bicycle. Battery assist and drone technology will be married to lightweight tubing (meta materials) as well as artificial intelligence to get us off the ground. I hope I live to soar on one.
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The bicycle is as much a work of art as it is an engineered machine. It is pleasing to the eye in a beautifully symmetrical way. It could not have been fashioned as a tool by a rhinoceros or a giraffe or even a very intelligent ape. Only human minds working in tandem could bring it from its essence to the final piece; and we are not done yet. Putting on a futurist's hat I see the arrow of time producing a flying bicycle. Battery assist and drone technology will be married to lightweight tubing (meta materials) as well as artificial intelligence to get us off the ground. I hope I live to soar on one.
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Maybe.
I was trying to put a positive spin on the topic. I suspect you did not see the original post. I would not say it was over the top inflammatory, but it was VERY partisan and I am glad it got adjusted. If people want to talk politics that's fine but that belongs in P&R.
I was trying to put a positive spin on the topic. I suspect you did not see the original post. I would not say it was over the top inflammatory, but it was VERY partisan and I am glad it got adjusted. If people want to talk politics that's fine but that belongs in P&R.
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I was trying to put a positive spin on the topic. I suspect you did not see the original post. I would not say it was over the top inflammatory, but it was VERY partisan and I am glad it got adjusted. If people want to talk politics that's fine but that belongs in P&R.
I was trying to put a positive spin on the topic. I suspect you did not see the original post. I would not say it was over the top inflammatory, but it was VERY partisan and I am glad it got adjusted. If people want to talk politics that's fine but that belongs in P&R.
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Remember the simple fact about a bicycle. Only a steel wheel on a steel rail is more efficient way of moving around. You only need to pick the type of bike for the type of cycling you want to do, and where you want to ride. Yes a bicycle or tricycle IS a beautiful thing.
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IMO, it is even more of a beautiful thing when you choose a bicycle platform you can repair and maintain yourself. True, most still need to purchase a bike; but to be able to go forward from that point across countries or even continents under ones own power using a efficient machine you can work on yourself is a fascinating proposition.
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