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For people who shop there often enough, that is actually the most "profitable" way to do it. You don't earn a dividend on stuff you purchase using your dividend directly. If you take the dividend in cash and then use that to buy stuff, you do earn a dividend on stuff you purchase with your dividend.
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We never had a problem using REI dividends in the past. Most of the time we'd just give them to the kids since they are both outdoors types. A lot of times we use them to get birthday or Christmas gifts.
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If the guy doesn't want the bike, there is nothing unreasonable about selling it and enjoying the prize in some other way.
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You can get the dividend back in cash. Easiest way is to visit a store, buy something like a Cliff bar with it and ask for the balance of your dividend in cash.
For people who shop there often enough, that is actually the most "profitable" way to do it. You don't earn a dividend on stuff you purchase using your dividend directly. If you take the dividend in cash and then use that to buy stuff, you do earn a dividend on stuff you purchase with your dividend.
For people who shop there often enough, that is actually the most "profitable" way to do it. You don't earn a dividend on stuff you purchase using your dividend directly. If you take the dividend in cash and then use that to buy stuff, you do earn a dividend on stuff you purchase with your dividend.
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On yesterday's ride I think I unintentionally ended up in somebody's d**k measuring competition. A couple guys on newer, nicer bikes than I was on, looking significantly more fit and less fat than I. I wasn't trying to beat them or anything, it's just they were going slower than I wanted to, twice
If I am passed by someone and I want to see what they have, I will stay back and never try to prevent them from passing. A guy on a TT bike passed me on a straight one day and he got into his elbow steerers and all tucked in and I could tell he couldn't dial it up to 400 watts so I followed him for a couple miles. It was fun and I never got into his draft.
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I don't want to race strangers so sometimes I will sit a few bike lengths behind them before I pass. A lot of times passing someone will trigger their race mode. I was cruising the bike path and a young couple on nice bikes entered the path ahead of me and they were riding slower than I was so I passed her and when I started to pass him he stood up and hammered the pedals to try and prevent me from passing. Why would he do that? So by the time I had disposed of him he was way ahead of his friend/wife/whatever.
If I am passed by someone and I want to see what they have, I will stay back and never try to prevent them from passing. A guy on a TT bike passed me on a straight one day and he got into his elbow steerers and all tucked in and I could tell he couldn't dial it up to 400 watts so I followed him for a couple miles. It was fun and I never got into his draft.
If I am passed by someone and I want to see what they have, I will stay back and never try to prevent them from passing. A guy on a TT bike passed me on a straight one day and he got into his elbow steerers and all tucked in and I could tell he couldn't dial it up to 400 watts so I followed him for a couple miles. It was fun and I never got into his draft.
I guess the good news is that I've gotten fast enough that whether to pass people I think can smoke me if they try is actually something that's possible, instead of being that guy everyone passes.
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I dunno. On the one hand, I'd LOVE to have a superbike to ride. On the other, it's worth more than all my bikes put together, and for the price of that I could get some really nice s**t.
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And as noted, I can always take my earned dividend as cash and spend it wherever.
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Sure don't see many of these beauties these days.
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In this case it seemed more like they were doing what I do - dawdle some places, push harder in others - but their dawdling was slower than my dawdling and their pushing harder was faster than mine. e.g. there's a 0.5 mile hill of about 3.5% gradient, and they were both out of the saddle the whole way. I can't do that long out of the saddle. But on the descent following, I had to brake to stay behind the slower of the two. Then they turned onto the side road I always take, and dawdled even more than I do on that road, so my choices were to dawdle even slower than that, or pass them. So I did the latter.
I guess the good news is that I've gotten fast enough that whether to pass people I think can smoke me if they try is actually something that's possible, instead of being that guy everyone passes.
I guess the good news is that I've gotten fast enough that whether to pass people I think can smoke me if they try is actually something that's possible, instead of being that guy everyone passes.
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You can get the dividend back in cash. Easiest way is to visit a store, buy something like a Cliff bar with it and ask for the balance of your dividend in cash.
For people who shop there often enough, that is actually the most "profitable" way to do it. You don't earn a dividend on stuff you purchase using your dividend directly. If you take the dividend in cash and then use that to buy stuff, you do earn a dividend on stuff you purchase with your dividend.
For people who shop there often enough, that is actually the most "profitable" way to do it. You don't earn a dividend on stuff you purchase using your dividend directly. If you take the dividend in cash and then use that to buy stuff, you do earn a dividend on stuff you purchase with your dividend.
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