Bicycles have gotten insanely expensive.
06-07-19, 01:53 PM
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Do everyone a favor, including yourself, and put all those posters who don't meet your standards for bicycling correctness or lofty level of smug pontification on ignore. Would save a lot of wear and tear on the electrons you waste on gratuitous and OT snarky ankle biting of posters who offend your sensibilities.
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06-07-19, 01:55 PM
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^^^Oh the irony.^^^
06-07-19, 02:00 PM
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^^^Oh the smugness^^^ why don't you, just like your tag team partner in snarky snipping, do everyone a favor, and put all those posters who don't meet your standards for a lofty level of smugness on ignore. Would save a lot of wear and tear on the electrons you waste on popcorn gifs and wear and tear on certain letters on your keyboards such as I, B, L, and T.
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06-07-19, 02:07 PM
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Do everyone a favor, including yourself, and put all those posters who don't meet your standards for bicycling correctness or lofty level of smug pontification on ignore. Would save a lot of wear and tear on the electrons you waste on gratuitous and OT snarky ankle biting of posters who offend your sensibilities.
Your snark is a full-time job, and is mostly of the cut and paste variety.
Please accuse me of being repetitive next.
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06-07-19, 02:20 PM
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^^^Oh the smugness^^^ why don't you, just like your tag team partner in snarky snipping, do everyone a favor, and put all those posters who don't meet your standards for a lofty level of smugness on ignore. Would save a lot of wear and tear on the electrons you waste on popcorn gifs and wear and tear on certain letters on your keyboards such as I, B, L, and T.
Seems as if someone already cut a loaf in your cornflakes. This thread was a (bad) joke from the start, lighten up
Edit- just moved to the next thread down and found your very similar attacks on LDL there. WTF?
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06-07-19, 02:29 PM
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06-07-19, 02:40 PM
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Anyone own a Festka?
Cycling weekly says that the Scalatore front only fits 23's?
I find that hard to believe. Anyone know if this is true?
-Tim-
Cycling weekly says that the Scalatore front only fits 23's?
I find that hard to believe. Anyone know if this is true?
-Tim-
06-07-19, 02:40 PM
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speaking of .... I really like a Trek madone 9.9 .... I MUST have it and I just have to convince my wife that perhaps a 2nd mortage on our house will be a good idea (I'll add a bit extra to the loan and get her a new washing machine to keep her happy) ....
(I'm not joking)
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06-07-19, 03:08 PM
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If bicycles have gotten insanely expensive ... you should buy a ton, and then wait a while for prices to rise still further ... and sell them.
You could call your business ...oh, I don't know, maybe "Local Bike Shop."
Guaranteed to be rolling in riches ... and rolling down the road in a Bugatti Royale or Atalanta.... don't you think?
You could call your business ...oh, I don't know, maybe "Local Bike Shop."
Guaranteed to be rolling in riches ... and rolling down the road in a Bugatti Royale or Atalanta.... don't you think?
except for my 1995 Toyota Corolla DX sedan which is a highly reliable, economical town and commute runabout car.
If it's gotta an engine and five tries including the spare, it's gotta be a Toyota product!
The real American business to own these days is a mega-freight-motor-carrier like Swift or JB Hunt. A huge fleet of over-the-road diesel semi trucks.
People need new clothes, meat, eggs, produce. bread, toilet paper, computers, beds, stoves, refrigerators, smartphones, new cars, TVs, couches,
washing machines, lawn mowers, and milk delivered to their communities much more than they need expensive pedal toys without even a motor.
I do agree with what President Obama said in office; we need to get American manufacturing going again in full bloom. We need to rebuild the American infrastructure to truly bing it into the 21st century. America was always a great nation under an economy of war materials, electronics, computers, building trades, farming, transportation industry, forestry/logging, coal mining, oil production, precision engineering, civil engineering, architecture, modern science, Ivy League colleges and yes, manufacturing.
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06-07-19, 05:13 PM
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Are you a lawyer too? Three smirking lawyers badgering other posters on the same thread should be against some sort of BF law.
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The real American business to own these days is a mega-freight-motor-carrier like Swift or JB Hunt. A huge fleet of over-the-road diesel semi trucks.
People need new clothes, meat, eggs, produce. bread, toilet paper, computers, beds, stoves, refrigerators, smartphones, new cars, TVs, couches,
washing machines, lawn mowers, and milk delivered to their communities much more than they need expensive pedal toys without even a motor.
People need new clothes, meat, eggs, produce. bread, toilet paper, computers, beds, stoves, refrigerators, smartphones, new cars, TVs, couches,
washing machines, lawn mowers, and milk delivered to their communities much more than they need expensive pedal toys without even a motor.
Super nice people too.
-Tim-
06-07-19, 07:34 PM
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OK, That was fun. Closed
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