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Old 09-12-19, 06:55 AM
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Yay! FedEx un-lost my last Rapha order (another sweater). It was supposed to be delivered yesterday, but was somehow misplaced between St Paul and Minneapolis.
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Originally Posted by sbxx1985
I don't eat beets, but doesn't it make your pee red? That's weird.
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And they taste like dirt.
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Originally Posted by seedsbelize
3 months ago I deleted my fb account. Yesterday it was Strava. Today BF. Vayan con dios
What about Twitter?
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Originally Posted by rjones28
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Originally Posted by rjones28
And they taste like dirt.
If they didn't taste like dirt, I'd eat them more often, too.
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
If they didn't taste like dirt, I'd eat them more often, too.
I will eat them from time-to-time, when Mrs. rjones28 roasts or grills them. They taste less like dirt then.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
What about Twitter?
What about the Strava Addiction Club?
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Spent the night in Baby Owl Cove off a creek off the Choptank River. Tonight may be a bit boisterous, so we’ll probably get a slip in Oxford, MD for better sleep. Tomorrow, probably head for Solomons, MD.

Beets only in a good salad with, like, walnuts and goat cheese or borscht with enough meaty flavor to neutralize the beatiness.
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The fog of tour. Saw my second bald eagle yesterday evening.
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I love beets, they are so nutritious it's worth the minor effort to learn how to prepare them right. Personally I've never experienced the 'dirt' taste. I might suggest peeling them, slicing thin, and boiling them with a little vinegar in the water which is how I've always fixed them. Mrs BD roasts them which tastes even better, but I don't know the details.
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Originally Posted by seedsbelize
3 months ago I deleted my fb account. Yesterday it was Strava. Today BF. Vayan con dios
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
Chicken.

They do have them available at the sale price in red, too.
I love pink cycling gear. It looks great.

Furthermore, I have no patience for any kind of insecure toxic masculinity "herp derp men shuldn't wear pink herp derp!" BS. I'm a combat veteran, I have nothing to prove, but also you don't have to be a combat veteran to know that's ridiculous and antiquated in the year of our lord two thousand and nineteen.

Also pink was considered a masculine color up until the 30s when the advertisers got their hands on it.

(Wedding rings for men weren't really a thing until around then, either, but I knew better than to try to advocate that particular position with my wife. Also, I kind of like my ring. It's tungsten, for durability.)
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Originally Posted by ksryder
I love pink cycling gear. It looks great.

Furthermore, I have no patience for any kind of insecure toxic masculinity "herp derp men shuldn't wear pink herp derp!" BS. I'm a combat veteran, I have nothing to prove, but also you don't have to be a combat veteran to know that's ridiculous and antiquated in the year of our lord two thousand and nineteen.

Also pink was considered a masculine color up until the 30s when the advertisers got their hands on it.

(Wedding rings for men weren't really a thing until around then, either, but I knew better than to try to advocate that particular position with my wife. Also, I kind of like my ring. It's tungsten, for durability.)
I got mostly admiring looks yesterday, primarily from women, and one long, perplexed look from a guy.

My wedding ring is Ti for... future retro-grouchery?
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
I got mostly admiring looks yesterday, primarily from women, and one long, perplexed look from a guy.

My wedding ring is Ti for... future retro-grouchery?
I wear a silicone ring for safety. As for pink...
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Old 09-12-19, 09:14 AM
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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
Silicone for safety!
I've been thinking about picking up a silicone ring. I don't wear the Ti as often as I should because it's getting to be too loose and it's rather unyielding - in addition to the possibility of losing it from falling off, I can see a Jimmy Fallon-type accident happening with it.
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
I've been thinking about picking up a silicone ring. I don't wear the Ti as often as I should because it's getting to be too loose and it's rather unyielding - in addition to the possibility of losing it from falling off, I can see a Jimmy Fallon-type accident happening with it.
I’m too accident prone and have cut too many rings off people in danger of losing fingers to wear a metal ring when working or playing with big loads.
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Old 09-12-19, 09:29 AM
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I’m too accident prone and have cut too many rings off people in danger of losing fingers to wear a metal ring when working or playing with big loads.
In medical school, the hand specialist who lectured us on hand problems and surgeries made it clear he will never wear a ring. I don't think silicone rings were a thing back then.

That said, I do wear a Ti wedding band. It's low risk IMO.
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
I've been thinking about picking up a silicone ring. I don't wear the Ti as often as I should because it's getting to be too loose and it's rather unyielding - in addition to the possibility of losing it from falling off, I can see a Jimmy Fallon-type accident happening with it.
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I’m too accident prone and have cut too many rings off people in danger of losing fingers to wear a metal ring when working or playing with big loads.
I don't wear my ring when riding any more after almost losing it. I've lost a bit of weight since I got married so it can be a little loose on my finger, especially at the end of a ride where I've been sweating. For a while I had a chain that I would put it on, but then the chain broke so I was just wearing it like normal on rides.

A couple years ago I got home from a ride and my ring was missing. I tore the house apart looking for it, because I couldn't remember if I'd been wearing it on the ride or not. I absolutely could not find it.

The next morning I was thinking about it and I remembered that, about a mile from my house, I had been shaking my hand after wiping my nose following a somewhat unsuccessful snot rocket. On a hunch I went back to that street near my house and walked up and down the street for a few minutes, without much hope. I didn't see anything, so I just resigned myself to the fact that I'd lost my ring and started walking back to the car.

At the last second I happened to glance down and there was my ring, sitting there in the middle of the street. It had been there all night, evidently.

So now I make sure I take my ring off when I ride.

Interestingly, throughout this whole ordeal, my wife was a lot more calm and pragmatic about it than I was. At least, I hope it was pragmatism and not apathy.
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Originally Posted by ksryder
I don't wear my ring when riding any more after almost losing it. I've lost a bit of weight since I got married so it can be a little loose on my finger, especially at the end of a ride where I've been sweating. For a while I had a chain that I would put it on, but then the chain broke so I was just wearing it like normal on rides.

A couple years ago I got home from a ride and my ring was missing. I tore the house apart looking for it, because I couldn't remember if I'd been wearing it on the ride or not. I absolutely could not find it.

The next morning I was thinking about it and I remembered that, about a mile from my house, I had been shaking my hand after wiping my nose following a somewhat unsuccessful snot rocket. On a hunch I went back to that street near my house and walked up and down the street for a few minutes, without much hope. I didn't see anything, so I just resigned myself to the fact that I'd lost my ring and started walking back to the car.

At the last second I happened to glance down and there was my ring, sitting there in the middle of the street. It had been there all night, evidently.

So now I make sure I take my ring off when I ride.

Interestingly, throughout this whole ordeal, my wife was a lot more calm and pragmatic about it than I was. At least, I hope it was pragmatism and not apathy.
Not the end of the world or the marriage. My wife’s beautiful and expensive wedding and engagement rings lie on the bottom of the Caribbean off Antigua. She replaced them with cheaper jewelry and now wears silicone too.
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Originally Posted by ksryder
I don't wear my ring when riding any more after almost losing it. I've lost a bit of weight since I got married so it can be a little loose on my finger, especially at the end of a ride where I've been sweating. For a while I had a chain that I would put it on, but then the chain broke so I was just wearing it like normal on rides.

A couple years ago I got home from a ride and my ring was missing. I tore the house apart looking for it, because I couldn't remember if I'd been wearing it on the ride or not. I absolutely could not find it.

The next morning I was thinking about it and I remembered that, about a mile from my house, I had been shaking my hand after wiping my nose following a somewhat unsuccessful snot rocket. On a hunch I went back to that street near my house and walked up and down the street for a few minutes, without much hope. I didn't see anything, so I just resigned myself to the fact that I'd lost my ring and started walking back to the car.

At the last second I happened to glance down and there was my ring, sitting there in the middle of the street. It had been there all night, evidently.

So now I make sure I take my ring off when I ride.

Interestingly, throughout this whole ordeal, my wife was a lot more calm and pragmatic about it than I was. At least, I hope it was pragmatism and not apathy.
Good story. I have the same one, but it involved a bar rooftop deck and my ring falling off while I was playing with it. I showed up the next morning with my drill and miraculously found it and fished it out of the floor. My wife also was more calm than I and was there when it fell. I never take it off now.

I can't do pink. Our team kit moved towards more and more pink and I think it looked silly. I couldn't say anything because the head of the team loved pink, it was his idea, and he's a nice guy. I did love hot pink when I wore Ocean Pacific stuff.
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Not the end of the world or the marriage. My wife’s beautiful and expensive wedding and engagement rings lie on the bottom of the Caribbean off Antigua. She replaced them with cheaper jewelry and now wears silicone too.
And pocketed the insurance money to buy a new sail?
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I've found it more effective, if BF needs to go, to just leave. Come back or not. Addiction is a welcoming place.
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And pocketed the insurance money to buy a new sail?
Where were you when I needed you, man? Actually, I think they may have required a rider, which we didn’t have.
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Originally Posted by ksryder
I don't wear my ring when riding any more after almost losing it. I've lost a bit of weight since I got married so it can be a little loose on my finger, especially at the end of a ride where I've been sweating. For a while I had a chain that I would put it on, but then the chain broke so I was just wearing it like normal on rides.

A couple years ago I got home from a ride and my ring was missing. I tore the house apart looking for it, because I couldn't remember if I'd been wearing it on the ride or not. I absolutely could not find it.

The next morning I was thinking about it and I remembered that, about a mile from my house, I had been shaking my hand after wiping my nose following a somewhat unsuccessful snot rocket. On a hunch I went back to that street near my house and walked up and down the street for a few minutes, without much hope. I didn't see anything, so I just resigned myself to the fact that I'd lost my ring and started walking back to the car.

At the last second I happened to glance down and there was my ring, sitting there in the middle of the street. It had been there all night, evidently.

So now I make sure I take my ring off when I ride.

Interestingly, throughout this whole ordeal, my wife was a lot more calm and pragmatic about it than I was. At least, I hope it was pragmatism and not apathy.
Nice. I've lost my ring a couple times in my 15 years of marriage.

Once, it was gone for more than a year. I had long given up hope of finding it when I felt it in the antiquated little watch pocket of the jeans that I was wearing. It was then that I remembered "discovering" those pockets, thought that they'd be a nice, secure place to temporarily stash my ring, and then promptly forgot all about it.

The other time, it spent months on a nail that was pounded in to an outside panel of one of the cupboards, just around the corner and out of our typical line-of-sight. As with the pocket incident, I had taken the ring off (presumably while cooking), stashed it someplace safe and forgot about it. Since finding it, the nail has become referred to as the "Ring Nail" and both my wife and I use it for our rings when we're cooking or cleaning in the kitchen.
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