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Road Cycling “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” -- Ernest Hemingway

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Old 06-29-21, 07:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Trsnrtr
Complete disclosure: I will probably only visit two of the Quad Cities, Moline and Rock Island, both on the east side of the big river.
We got hosted for a weekend in Davenport while riding across the country. On our day off I rode to Moline and visited the John Deere Center. Pretty cool. There was a combine and cotton gin you could climb into and several vintage tractors.

That night we took our host and his wife to The Machine Shed for dinner. What a feed-fest. I had a giant stuffed pork chop. The sides were served family style, brought out in giant bowls. (There were 15 of us.) Then we had ice cream at some locally famous place. Cannot remember the name.
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Good news, DougRNS

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I confess I don't know where the quad cities are.
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Bring water and snacks for the half-mile hike. SMH.

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Originally Posted by WhyFi
This was the one thing about the airshow that I wasn't fond of - lots of involuntary eyerolling at t-shirts.
That's why I don't go to my National Guard unit reunions or join veterans' organizations.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
#PopQuiz

Without googling, can you name something worth seeing in Fort Worth? Texas?
ftfy

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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
HTFU.

<=== Last Texas appearance in 1991. Sad. Or is it?
I was last there in '81
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Originally Posted by seedsbelize
I was last there in '81
Either '81 or '82 for me, I can't remember.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
I confess I don't know where the quad cities are.
On the Mississippi. Davenport, IA on the west side. Moline, IL on the east side. Rock Island, IL in between those two. The area now actually consists of more than 4 cities.

Quad Cities - Wikipedia
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Originally Posted by ksryder
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Originally Posted by Trsnrtr
Interesting architecture.
Quite a few of this style bungalow in the Great Northwest, built around WWII.

This one has the most hilarious of roof styles: the jerkinhead.
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Originally Posted by ksryder
ftfy
Harsh, but fair.
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Old 06-29-21, 10:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
I wear Jean shorts almost daily. I don't need your Twitter app to tell me I'm cool.
SMH
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These arrived yesterday. So I’ve got that going for me.


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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
I confess I don't know where the quad cities are.
yet you rag on me for putting Mt Mitchell a few miles too far west. SMFH.
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Originally Posted by indyfabz
These arrived yesterday. So I’ve got that going for me.


That safety level is far too high for my taste.

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Originally Posted by DougRNS
yet you rag on me for putting Mt Mitchell a few miles too far west. SMFH.
@Velo Vol is decidedly East Coast!
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Originally Posted by DougRNS
yet you rag on me for putting Mt Mitchell a few miles too far west. SMFH.
I didn't post a map and where I put the Quad Cities in the wrong place, after having (allegedly) ridden there on a bicycle.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
@Velo Vol is decidedly East Coast!
I'm an East Coast Westerner, to be more specific. West of the big mountains.
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I didn't post a map and where I put the Quad Cities in the wrong place
if we meet in July I'll wear my Jean shorts to trigger you.
It might be a Thursday afternoon. can you manage that with your work schedule?
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Originally Posted by DougRNS
if we meet in July I'll wear my Jean shorts to trigger you.
It might be a Thursday afternoon. can you manage that with your work schedule?
Maybe.
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I thought those were car tires. In rather odd packaging.
The tread.
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Where can I buy tyres labeled at the lowest safety level? #YOLO
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At least he didn't say All England Lawns Tennis and Croquet Club.

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