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Aw hell naw!
See, this is exactly why I don't like riding in groups, you have to give up so much to conform. When I want to ride my bike I value the freedom to go where I want, when I want, and to do what I want to do. Why go out with other people exerting pressure on me? It's like going to work.
See, this is exactly why I don't like riding in groups, you have to give up so much to conform. When I want to ride my bike I value the freedom to go where I want, when I want, and to do what I want to do. Why go out with other people exerting pressure on me? It's like going to work.
Yes sir! Why are they not backing me up?
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You know how people will use a particular word incorrectly long enough and eventually the English Language just says "well eff it I guess that's what it means now" (example: irregardless now being in the Oxford Dictionary)?
I usually don't get worked up about that sort of thing even though my undergrad degree was in English and I write for a living. This is because (a) languages evolve; (b) language "rules" are arbitrary; (c) the English language is really 3 languages standing on each other's shoulders and wearing a trench coat trying to pretend to be one language; and (d) ugh who cares, what a stupid thing to get worked about.
HOWEVER
It drives me crazy every time I see someone refer to the tire width as 28c instead of 28mm. There is no such thing as 28c (or 32 or 38 or whatever the width is.) "c" is not a unit of measurement. It's an archaic French standard that is supposed to indicate in a general way a class of tire widths. https://www.sheldonbrown.com/tire-sizing.html#french
But you see it all the time, even in so-called professional cycling media and in ad copy from manufacturers themselves. It's such an easy thing to get right and yet no one bothers.
Like I said common mis-usage eventually becomes the correct usage and this is not a hill upon which I wish to die. But it still privately drives me crazy.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
I usually don't get worked up about that sort of thing even though my undergrad degree was in English and I write for a living. This is because (a) languages evolve; (b) language "rules" are arbitrary; (c) the English language is really 3 languages standing on each other's shoulders and wearing a trench coat trying to pretend to be one language; and (d) ugh who cares, what a stupid thing to get worked about.
HOWEVER
It drives me crazy every time I see someone refer to the tire width as 28c instead of 28mm. There is no such thing as 28c (or 32 or 38 or whatever the width is.) "c" is not a unit of measurement. It's an archaic French standard that is supposed to indicate in a general way a class of tire widths. https://www.sheldonbrown.com/tire-sizing.html#french
But you see it all the time, even in so-called professional cycling media and in ad copy from manufacturers themselves. It's such an easy thing to get right and yet no one bothers.
Like I said common mis-usage eventually becomes the correct usage and this is not a hill upon which I wish to die. But it still privately drives me crazy.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
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I don't know if it's due to the pandemic or what but motorists have been more kind lately around here. Sure, there are still jerks but their numbers seem fewer recently.
Saturday there was a freeway closure and traffic was diverted onto the normally quiet road we were using. There were suddenly hundreds of cars and trucks but everyone was cool. People let us through when traffic bunched up and one guy held traffic back when we went through a tunnel.
I don't like flipping off drivers because they can kill us if they choose. A friend flipped off a driver who then circled the block and hit him with his car, knocking him into a parked car. He wasn't badly hurt, luckily. Another friend had a similar experience but he was knocked unconscious when the car hit him. A group of about 5 friends were riding along and got into it with a driver who then jumped out with a cane and started swinging it at the riders. One of the riders is a martial artist and subdued the idiot until police arrived.
I was riding with a friend who is a Viet Nam vet and will fight anyone, anytime. A kid in a diesel truck did the rolling coal thing to us and got slowed by traffic ahead. My friend gave chase and the stupid driver made a right turn and almost hit some kids in a crosswalk. It was very close and left all of us shaken.
Saturday there was a freeway closure and traffic was diverted onto the normally quiet road we were using. There were suddenly hundreds of cars and trucks but everyone was cool. People let us through when traffic bunched up and one guy held traffic back when we went through a tunnel.
I don't like flipping off drivers because they can kill us if they choose. A friend flipped off a driver who then circled the block and hit him with his car, knocking him into a parked car. He wasn't badly hurt, luckily. Another friend had a similar experience but he was knocked unconscious when the car hit him. A group of about 5 friends were riding along and got into it with a driver who then jumped out with a cane and started swinging it at the riders. One of the riders is a martial artist and subdued the idiot until police arrived.
I was riding with a friend who is a Viet Nam vet and will fight anyone, anytime. A kid in a diesel truck did the rolling coal thing to us and got slowed by traffic ahead. My friend gave chase and the stupid driver made a right turn and almost hit some kids in a crosswalk. It was very close and left all of us shaken.
Stand up to them and they might run you over. Give em the finger (Mines on a hair trigger) they might kill you.
IF all it takes is my giving them the Hawaiian good luck sign for them to run me down, it's just a matter of time anyways.
Sorry to say, the cops are worthless unless the guy (or gal) incriminate themselves. They didn't see it. I've called 911 a lot never done any good. Maybe twice and I had to go to court, write statements, etc. It blows.
The pandemic has made things way worse here.. people are just looking for pots to stir. Last year I had problems that I called 911 every day during my vacation. In response to an officer telling me that's what I'm supposed to do. A woman pulled a 2ft length of pipe out on me after she road raged at me for riding my bike in the street. People say I look for problems. I'm just riding my bike. Doing what the law says I can do.
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You don't eat before noon? I frequently don't, but I have willpower.
Plural?
Maybe he's a poet?
Maybe he's a poet?
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Yeah, that was stupid amounts of fun.
We rode DuPont State Forest in NC. I'm definitely wanting a full squish of my own now, although for the interim it looks like I'll be able to take the Intense any time I want to.
The guy I rode with doesn't seem much for stopping and taking pictures, but here's the bottom section of Bridal Falls:
We rode DuPont State Forest in NC. I'm definitely wanting a full squish of my own now, although for the interim it looks like I'll be able to take the Intense any time I want to.
The guy I rode with doesn't seem much for stopping and taking pictures, but here's the bottom section of Bridal Falls:
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Apparently bears love chicken.
NSFW language on the video
https://www.pentictonwesternnews.com..._fqbmQjEWkTBvc
NSFW language on the video
https://www.pentictonwesternnews.com..._fqbmQjEWkTBvc
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I did another Crit on Zwift last night - what with one thing and another, I missed the window to ride outside - and this time I won it fair and square. Okay, so it was the D's, and there were only 8 other starters. But still! I don't find that racing on Zwift makes me want to race IRL. There's zero bikehandling skill required on Zwift, whereas REAL crits often result in mayhem. There's a Youtube channel, NorCal Cycling. He posts race footage of races he's ridden - and often won - with a lot of really good commentary on tactics etc. And it includes crashes. It makes me really not want to be around other riders going 30 mph+ while muscling their bikes all over the road, or riding in a pack where everyone is trying to take the same line through a curve.
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You know how people will use a particular word incorrectly long enough and eventually the English Language just says "well eff it I guess that's what it means now" (example: irregardless now being in the Oxford Dictionary)?
I usually don't get worked up about that sort of thing even though my undergrad degree was in English and I write for a living. This is because (a) languages evolve; (b) language "rules" are arbitrary; (c) the English language is really 3 languages standing on each other's shoulders and wearing a trench coat trying to pretend to be one language; and (d) ugh who cares, what a stupid thing to get worked about.
HOWEVER
It drives me crazy every time I see someone refer to the tire width as 28c instead of 28mm. There is no such thing as 28c (or 32 or 38 or whatever the width is.) "c" is not a unit of measurement. It's an archaic French standard that is supposed to indicate in a general way a class of tire widths. https://www.sheldonbrown.com/tire-sizing.html#french
But you see it all the time, even in so-called professional cycling media and in ad copy from manufacturers themselves. It's such an easy thing to get right and yet no one bothers.
Like I said common mis-usage eventually becomes the correct usage and this is not a hill upon which I wish to die. But it still privately drives me crazy.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
I usually don't get worked up about that sort of thing even though my undergrad degree was in English and I write for a living. This is because (a) languages evolve; (b) language "rules" are arbitrary; (c) the English language is really 3 languages standing on each other's shoulders and wearing a trench coat trying to pretend to be one language; and (d) ugh who cares, what a stupid thing to get worked about.
HOWEVER
It drives me crazy every time I see someone refer to the tire width as 28c instead of 28mm. There is no such thing as 28c (or 32 or 38 or whatever the width is.) "c" is not a unit of measurement. It's an archaic French standard that is supposed to indicate in a general way a class of tire widths. https://www.sheldonbrown.com/tire-sizing.html#french
But you see it all the time, even in so-called professional cycling media and in ad copy from manufacturers themselves. It's such an easy thing to get right and yet no one bothers.
Like I said common mis-usage eventually becomes the correct usage and this is not a hill upon which I wish to die. But it still privately drives me crazy.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
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Dang, no one told me Eliptigo came out with a MTB version of the SUB, the MSUB. I guess I should check my instagram more often...
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Speaking of Elliptigos on IG, here's my old boss shredding on a regular SUB behind the shop
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Be more specific.
<==does not know what "full squish" is
I check IG daily and see no such contraptions.
Saves time, doesn't it?
Saves time, doesn't it?
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