Originally Posted by genejockey (Post 22506499)

You realize that's not how it works, right? CPI did not increase that much from month to month. That's a year-to-year increase.

Originally Posted by Velo Vol (Post 22506514)

Take it up with rjones28

Originally Posted by bampilot06 (Post 22506518)

It’s raining in New York.

Originally Posted by LAJ (Post 22506536)

People are weird.

Originally Posted by LAJ (Post 22506545)

So. Mixing the 50 Open, the 60 Open and the 70 Open is crazy. I'm not sure what the answer is, but racing with 50 year old past Tour and Giro racers, is hard. The 70 years old were chicanes, the 50 year olds caught us, then we mixed in. They didn't want us there, but we had to integrate, otherwise our field would be divided. There were teams that had racers in both the 50's and 60's that would work together, which made it tough for singletons like myself. So, I got to race with angry fast kids, with good team tactics. I'm happy I hung in there, but things need to change.

Originally Posted by datlas (Post 22506535)

Finished my club-mate’s :bday: ride. He invited six of his friends to do the ride with him to celebrate, but he extended the invite to a small group of us as well. So we had the bday boy, HIS six friends (who I had not met before), and five of us who went along too. It turns out his friends are serious cyclists and kept gapping/dropping the birthday boy. We would regroup periodically. But about 15 miles from the end, they all took off and left him for dead. I and my 4 friends stayed back with the birthday/ride leader and stayed with him until the end.

I don’t know if it’s ironic or just “tough love,” but if I invited a bunch of friends to my ride and they dropped me like that, I would be kinda pissed.

Thoughts??

Originally Posted by rjones28 (Post 22506577)

...City.

Not raining in this part of New York.

Originally Posted by LAJ (Post 22506545)

So. Mixing the 50 Open, the 60 Open and the 70 Open is crazy. I'm not sure what the answer is, but racing with 50 year old past Tour and Giro racers, is hard. The 70 years old were chicanes, the 50 year olds caught us, then we mixed in. They didn't want us there, but we had to integrate, otherwise our field would be divided. There were teams that had racers in both the 50's and 60's that would work together, which made it tough for singletons like myself. So, I got to race with angry fast kids, with good team tactics. I'm happy I hung in there, but things need to change.

Originally Posted by BillyD (Post 22506201)

Nice, clean-cut, respectful young man . . . . but I detest his team . . . . and his whole city.

Originally Posted by Velo Vol (Post 22506178)

Except the cable that goes around the bottom bracket is off it's track and I don't know how to fix it.

Originally Posted by datlas (Post 22506535)

Finished my club-mate’s :bday: ride. He invited six of his friends to do the ride with him to celebrate, but he extended the invite to a small group of us as well. So we had the bday boy, HIS six friends (who I had not met before), and five of us who went along too. It turns out his friends are serious cyclists and kept gapping/dropping the birthday boy. We would regroup periodically. But about 15 miles from the end, they all took off and left him for dead. I and my 4 friends stayed back with the birthday/ride leader and stayed with him until the end.

I don’t know if it’s ironic or just “tough love,” but if I invited a bunch of friends to my ride and they dropped me like that, I would be kinda pissed.

Thoughts??

Originally Posted by LAJ (Post 22506545)

So. Mixing the 50 Open, the 60 Open and the 70 Open is crazy. I'm not sure what the answer is, but racing with 50 year old past Tour and Giro racers, is hard. The 70 years old were chicanes, the 50 year olds caught us, then we mixed in. They didn't want us there, but we had to integrate, otherwise our field would be divided. There were teams that had racers in both the 50's and 60's that would work together, which made it tough for singletons like myself. So, I got to race with angry fast kids, with good team tactics. I'm happy I hung in there, but things need to change.

Originally Posted by WhyFi (Post 22506609)

Wait - there are parts of New York that aren't New York City? I don't know if I believe you.

Originally Posted by ls01 (Post 22506670)

which one? What does it control?

Originally Posted by MoAlpha (Post 22506591)

Bad behavior on the friends’ part, bad judgment on the birthday boy’s, but taking it personally would only lead to unhappiness.

Originally Posted by datlas (Post 22506689)

There is a used, custom geometry Calfee Dragonfly on ScamBay I have been “watching” for nearly a year. My friend from California says I “have” to buy it. Am considering a low but not insulting offer.

Originally Posted by Velo Vol (Post 22506698)

Front derailleur.

Originally Posted by Mojo31 (Post 22506704)

Are tweeters twits? Discuss.

Originally Posted by genejockey (Post 22506711)

More like the past tense of twit, if you catch my meaning.

Originally Posted by datlas (Post 22506720)

Can you even say that?