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04-27-23, 05:02 PM
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04-27-23, 05:14 PM
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I've been wanting to try track cycling for a while. So glad I get the opportunity to do it! A shame that it's 2 hours away though.
The website says 15mph minimum. The regulations also stipulate a bike with a BB height of no less than 11.25" and cranks no longer than 170mm. Also an 85" gear minimum.
I'm very sad that my vintage track frame doesn't qualify - with the largest tires that fit, the BB is only 10.75" high or so
Thankfully they have bikes to rent!
I'm very sad that my vintage track frame doesn't qualify - with the largest tires that fit, the BB is only 10.75" high or so
Thankfully they have bikes to rent!
04-27-23, 05:21 PM
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I knew there was a connection, but I found out today that I am a 12th generation descendent of Hugo Freer. The Historical Society doc that I've been looking through has my dad listed in their family genealogy breakdown.
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04-27-23, 06:18 PM
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in stock in almost every size with 12 speed 105 di2! not sure how i feel about a 5k bile with aluminum rims, but change those out and this would probably be 90% of the ride of the fancy pants one i have for less than half the cost, even after the upgrades!
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04-27-23, 06:27 PM
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Why would you get another one?
04-27-23, 06:29 PM
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Took my daughter on the Cap trail today. Expected it to be dead, boy was I wrong. Was a little worried she would be all over the place and cause a crash, but she impressed me again, and held her line.
04-27-23, 06:34 PM
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04-27-23, 06:40 PM
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Jimi? Interesting question. There was some outrage when it came out back then. I remember seeing him on tv with Carson, I think. Carson asked him about the blowback and Jimi said "I thought it was beautiful." Perfect answer. I think it was the same show where his amplifier quit in the middle of Red House.
Of all the music coming out in the 60s I was most excited about Jimi Hendrix. The loss of Jimi hit me harder than any of the other icons of music during that era. A big disappointment.
But you may be right. These days it might stir up the crazies, or it might not.
Of all the music coming out in the 60s I was most excited about Jimi Hendrix. The loss of Jimi hit me harder than any of the other icons of music during that era. A big disappointment.
But you may be right. These days it might stir up the crazies, or it might not.
04-27-23, 06:42 PM
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Living in a cultural backwater, I don't know if I'd even ever heard any Hendrix till after he died. They weren't going to play it on WSBA, nor would his albums ever be sold in any local stores.
There were crazies back then, too, but they were uncoordinated. Thanks, internet!
There were crazies back then, too, but they were uncoordinated. Thanks, internet!
04-27-23, 06:45 PM
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04-27-23, 06:47 PM
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Here you go Velo Vol
Your pirates still have the best record in the National league. They are solidly ahead of the Brewers and have won 9 of the past ten.
Your pirates still have the best record in the National league. They are solidly ahead of the Brewers and have won 9 of the past ten.
04-27-23, 06:47 PM
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i certainly would not! But i have quite a few friends who would rock that, especially in the white. It also seems like the bike shortage has lessened greatly, back when some of the other trims came out they were all more or less instantly out of stock.
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04-27-23, 06:49 PM
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04-27-23, 06:51 PM
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I suppose I could tell Mrs. GJ that I'm trying to support the bike industry.
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04-27-23, 06:53 PM
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04-27-23, 06:55 PM
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04-27-23, 06:55 PM
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Ordered a PI jersey from Amazon. Clicking on the blue choice showed the color as "heirloom". It showed up today and it's an orangish-red. Also, it's kinda big on me. I always order XXL but this one is really big. I have other XXL jerseys that are tight.
Anyway I got on a live chat with a nice person who asked me to go to the return page and see if I could exchange for the blue one. It doesn't give me the exchange option. Plus, if I order another blue one it will be red. He said he understood and after a lot of back and forth he ordered me a blue one in XL and said I could keep the one I already have. I don't know how he ordered a blue one but I'll find out next week if he could.
Anyway I got on a live chat with a nice person who asked me to go to the return page and see if I could exchange for the blue one. It doesn't give me the exchange option. Plus, if I order another blue one it will be red. He said he understood and after a lot of back and forth he ordered me a blue one in XL and said I could keep the one I already have. I don't know how he ordered a blue one but I'll find out next week if he could.
04-27-23, 06:57 PM
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04-27-23, 06:58 PM
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This was what the locals ate and I didn’t get the impression it had happened since the Franco days. Then again, this guy is a malignant sociopath.
04-27-23, 07:01 PM
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Close call on the SS&P today. Hope that strap holds 
04-27-23, 07:03 PM
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You could do it at about 65. As you go thru the banked turns, you start high, drop low thru the apex, and exit high if you’re following a racing line. The banking basically straightens the turn. When I did the NASCAR experience years ago, we took the turns at about 125 and faster on the straights.
04-27-23, 07:05 PM
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I don't have a pic handy, but my dad took me to the first ancestral home in Ohio, built I don't know when. In Ragersville. The materials came in via the Erie canal. Prior ancestral homes are in Berks County Pennsylvania and date from the mid 18th century
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04-27-23, 07:08 PM
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A former coworker loved SRV so much that when his plane crashed, he said he almost wished it was him instead. I got a couple SRV CDs and after listening to them, told him that I, too, wish it had been him instead of SRV.
I actually like SRVs Little Wing more than Hendrix version, but it's a near thing.
I actually like SRVs Little Wing more than Hendrix version, but it's a near thing.
04-27-23, 07:33 PM
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04-27-23, 07:33 PM
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