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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 05-16-21, 06:38 PM
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Originally Posted by genejockey
Now You Know Who will be all over you about getting your car from out of town.

Wait. I can say his name. It's not like he's VeloVoldemort.
There are 4 dealers in DFW. It'll get sorted.
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Old 05-16-21, 06:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Then what were you doing today?
Sunday brunch with Mrs. rjones28. Car wash. Post-event clean up. Cut one of the lawns.
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Originally Posted by Mojo31
Washed 3 yesterday and 1 Friday night.
Were they covered with salt brine?
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There are 4 dealers in DFW.
And one in Tulsa. LOL
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Originally Posted by genejockey
In most places that are flat, there can be fearsome winds, so either it's great till you turn around, or it sucks till you turn around, or you get blown into traffic one way and blown off the road the other.

(It is windy AF here today, and I foolishly took my most wind-susceptible bike, the Bianchi. A couple times it tried to get out from under me, and I ended up pushing down on the leeward side of the bars, and one spot I had to put all my weight on the leeward pedal. Shoulda taken the Ritchey.

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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Have you tried walking activities to remain in quasi-shape?
Last Monday I got a steroid injection in my foot for this:

It didn't work. Remember, I'm *****d.
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Old 05-16-21, 06:59 PM
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Originally Posted by rjones28
We did that last week.
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Sunday brunch with Mrs. rjones28. Car wash. Post-event clean up. Cut one of the lawns.
How can your car get dirty again in a week? I go months without washing mine.
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Old 05-16-21, 07:04 PM
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Originally Posted by DougRNS
Last Monday I got a steroid injection in my foot for this:
It didn't work. Remember, I'm *****d.
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From time to time I have a mystery foot pain. I'm pretty sure it's RA triggered/related, even though it's not at a joint.

Maybe you should see a witch doctor? In which case you truly will be @%^&ed.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Were they covered with salt brine?

And one in Tulsa. LOL
Two were covered with bug splatters from the trip to A&M, one was cleaned to send off to Tulsa, and my wife's was just due a bath. Our cars get washed every week or two. Mopped the garage floor Friday night as well.

OCD life.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
How can your car get dirty again in a week? I go months without washing mine.
It gets driven every day.
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Originally Posted by mojo31
ocd life.
Originally Posted by rjones28
it gets driven every day.
smh.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
smh.
What kind of car do you drive?
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Originally Posted by seedsbelize
I only use the front brake to avoid a collision. Am I the only one?
Rear for me is typically for minor speed modulation, the front would usually get involved if I'm actually stopping.

Living here where there are real hills I'm actually having to learn how to brake for turns.
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Originally Posted by Mojo31
What kind of car do you drive?
A dirty one, apparently.
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Originally Posted by seedsbelize
I only use the front brake to avoid a collision. Am I the only one?
With the hills here, if I only used my rear brake, I'd be dead by now, either from overcooking turns or skidding the rear wheel and in either case being run over after I went skittering across the yellow line on my side.
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Originally Posted by Mojo31
What kind of car do you drive?
A senior Honda Accord.

Style points not required in getting from A to B.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
A senior Honda Accord.

Style points not required in getting from A to B.
The fun is not from A to B. The fun is all the miles outside of that. Just like on a bike.
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Originally Posted by Mojo31
The fun is not from A to B. The fun is all the miles outside of that. Just like on a bike.
Driving isn't fun.
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It's happening.

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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Driving isn't fun.
Especially, in a dirty old Honda.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
How can your car get dirty again in a week? I go months without washing mine.
Live in a place with a lot of dust, and a lot of wind, and maybe trees that are all having tree sex at the same time.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Driving isn't fun.
Then you're doing it wrong.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
Especially, in a dirty old Honda.
I could be in a clean new sports car and I'd still be sitting at dumb stop lights half the time, or bored to tears driving the same stretch of interstate that I've done a thousand times before.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
I could be in a clean new sports car and I'd still be sitting at dumb stop lights half the time, or bored to tears driving the same stretch of interstate that I've done a thousand times before.
Know what you need? A motorcycle!

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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
I could be in a clean new sports car and I'd still be sitting at dumb stop lights half the time, or bored to tears driving the same stretch of interstate that I've done a thousand times before.
Hey, you really ARE doing it wrong!
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