Originally Posted by ls01 (Post 22458675)

I thought the same. How ' bout Mikes hard lemonaid?

Originally Posted by BillyD (Post 22458673)

My favorite cocktail is my wife's recipe for margarita. That bad boy is a crowd pleaser. Equal parts of decent quality tequila, contreau, fresh-squeezed lime juice and simple syrup. Shake with crushed ice.

Originally Posted by BillyD (Post 22458662)

Sounds like the motor vehicles are gradually winning the competition for the roads. Who wants to volunteer to inform A&S?

Originally Posted by Mojo31 (Post 22458678)

I heard it’s good mixed with Coke.

Originally Posted by ls01 (Post 22458675)

I thought the same. How ' bout Mikes hard lemonaid?

Originally Posted by ls01 (Post 22458688)

Mix with Some Tea, make a hard Arnold Palmer...... if thats what your into...

Originally Posted by ls01 (Post 22458688)

Mix with Some Tea, make a hard Arnold Palmer...... if thats what your into...

Originally Posted by Velo Vol (Post 22458581)

I've also been thinking about traffic. Suburban sprawl blows. It used to be, even five years ago, on one of my old favourite routes, that once you got beyond the last stop light in Hardin Valley, you were out in the "country." Maybe get passed by a few vehicles/mile, maybe not even that.

But now they are building, or have built, hundreds of houses out west. Empty fields are turning into subdivisions. And with that comes more and more blow-by buzzings with SUVs and monster trucks. Where's the enjoyment in that?

I'm thinking about retiring from road cycling and moving to a safer recreation, like seedsbelize did. It used to be that when people talked about off-road cycling, they meant mountain biking. There's a pretty good place to ride one 10 or so miles away. Now I guess gravel bikes are popular. Not sure where I'd ride that. On the MUP? Either way, I need to get off the roads.

Same spot in the Hardin Valley.

2014

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2022 :(


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Originally Posted by WhyFi (Post 22458694)

In Brooklyn, one of our neighbors introduced us to Firefly, a sweet tea infused vodka. My wife loved that mixed with lemonade, which I dubbed a Harnold Palmer.

Originally Posted by ls01 (Post 22458696)

Your thoughts mirror my own on the sprawl thing. There's hardly any farm land left around me. I used to ride to the farm land now I have to drive to it. When I moved into my parents house the rode was gravel. We were the 5th house on it. It's 9/10ths of a mile Longshore hasn't bee

Originally Posted by ls01 (Post 22458701)

I'd have to be hammered to order that.:innocent:. Nttawwt.

Originally Posted by Mojo31 (Post 22458730)

The required celebratory drink was Fireball.

Originally Posted by WhyFi (Post 22458755)

There's a map out there of the most popular liquor by state. It's embarrassing how many states are represented by Fireball.

Originally Posted by Mojo31 (Post 22458762)

Fortunately ours is not one of them. Unfortunately for you, yours is.

https://www.iheart.com/content/2020-...n-every-state/

Originally Posted by Mojo31 (Post 22458762)

Fortunately ours is not one of them. Unfortunately for you, yours is.

https://www.iheart.com/content/2020-...n-every-state/

Originally Posted by WhyFi (Post 22458755)

There's a map out there of the most popular liquor by state. It's embarrassing how many states are represented by Fireball.

Originally Posted by LAJ (Post 22458777)

Bacardi is just as bad. Heavens...

Originally Posted by WhyFi (Post 22458774)

In MN, you get outside of the loop and all bets are off.

I bet Fireball is popular for snowmobile bar hopping. :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by LAJ (Post 22458780)

I'm surprised Patron is so popular.

Originally Posted by WhyFi (Post 22458666)

You didn't miss out. The other popular thing in my underage days was the... I guess I'll call them the novelty liqueurs. Sugary stuff, like Goldschlager and this other crap with crystals forming at the bottom of the bottle, were popular ones. Jager, too, but only if you wanted to act manly. Basically anything that covered up or distracted from the alcohol. Ugh. So bad.

Originally Posted by genejockey (Post 22458711)

I hate to say this, especially as a suburban dweller myself, but the desire of everybody to live in a single family home with a yard in someplace with hints of the bucolic is A Bad Thing. Combine this with rigid zoning requirements that prevent the building of denser housing and you're doomed to mile after mile of Not City/Not Country, and it requires you going farther and farther to get to someplace that even seems remotely wild.

OR you end up with someplace like the Peninsula, where you can still get to semi-wild places within a single day's ride, but then housing gets so expensive that people like me can't afford to retire here.

Originally Posted by Mojo31 (Post 22458762)

Fortunately ours is not one of them. Unfortunately for you, yours is.

https://www.iheart.com/content/2020-...n-every-state/

Originally Posted by Bah Humbug (Post 22458818)

Fort Collins has taken another step forward. AG is negotiating details with a prospective new employer; if they come to an agreement we'll be moving later this year or early next.

You know, if the world doesn't end.

Originally Posted by indyfabz (Post 22458626)

Remember Zima?

Originally Posted by datlas (Post 22458828)

What iz it?

Originally Posted by BillyD (Post 22458630)

Same with all whiskies, IMO.

I rarely make a cocktail, I'm a straight guy.