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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 04-25-21, 08:24 PM
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With all of your traveling, I can only imagine. How much do you use typically, per month? When looking around, I couldn't believe that people were *****ing about being throttled after 100gb
I don't use 2.
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I was looking on Facebook Marketplace, and I saw an entry for "Road bike tires with rims". Something caught my eye, which was the QR acorn nut, which looked like the very distinctive Dura Ace EX version, which has 6 fins. The seller says they're both front wheels, but one of them is definitely a rear, for a freewheel. Not sure whether they're clinchers or tubs, but at the price ($50 the pair), I'll take a risk. If they're the latter, well, I'll just learn how to glue tubulars. I'm going to check them out tomorrow.
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Old 04-26-21, 04:47 AM
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There’s nothing so annoying as a noisy chain
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Hanging out in GA, today. I didn’t wave to DougRNS when I passed near by Atlanta because I was too pissed off at the time about the traffic.
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Originally Posted by DougRNS
people here don't get it.
I have about 7 steps up to one of my patches of “grass.” I don’t use a mower anymore, but weight was certainly an issue.
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For the record, I own the e-mower pictured in earlier posts. I bought it two years ago.
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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
I have about 7 steps up to one of my patches of “grass.” I don’t use a mower anymore, but weight was certainly an issue.
Do you own a goat or other grass-eating critter?
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Originally Posted by Trsnrtr
Do you own a goat or other grass-eating critter?
I own a 50 lb. push mower and an 18V string trimmer. Both smell better than a goat.



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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
I own a 60 lb. push mower and an 18V string trimmer. Both smell better than a goat.
I think you have goats confused with pigs. Now a billy goat stinks! I'll grant you that. But not the does.
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Old 04-26-21, 06:53 AM
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A half hour til ride time, on this seventh day in a row. A cool morning for a change.
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Originally Posted by seedsbelize
I think you have goats confused with pigs. Now a billy goat stinks! I'll grant you that. But not the does.
Sorry, does.

Does is as does does, I guess.
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I like the push mower. I like it a lot.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
I don't know how much my lawn mower weighs.
Do you even lift bro?
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Originally Posted by Trsnrtr
I like the push mower. I like it a lot.
It's a monster for sure. For better or worse, however, there hasn't been enough grass to justify it: mostly weeds, runaway liriope, and cicada killer mounds and hence the string trimmer. This year, we overseeded clover. It's coming up and we'll see if it lasts more than a season.
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Originally Posted by datlas
Where do they get it?
Yeah, amen ,where? I been without it for far to long....
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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
Both smell better than a goat.
But not nearly as fun.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
But not nearly as fun.
I'd appreciating not knowing any more about that.
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Some really nice lady leaves me a vice mail message at work every couple of days offering to extend my car's extended warranty, which is about to expire. How thoughtful. Guess I should return her calls.
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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
I own a 50 lb. push mower and an 18V string trimmer. Both smell better than a goat.


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I was supposed to buy a mower over the weekend. I failed. I have one in the storage facility, I think it even runs. I am curious about the electric ones though.
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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
It's a monster for sure. For better or worse, however, there hasn't been enough grass to justify it: mostly weeds, runaway liriope, and cicada killer mounds and hence the string trimmer. This year, we overseeded clover. It's coming up and we'll see if it lasts more than a season.
Would love a push mower like this, unfortunately it’s not feasible for the size lawn we have.
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Originally Posted by phrantic09
Would love a push mower like this, unfortunately it’s not feasible for the size lawn we have.
Get a team of goats to pull it.
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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
Get a team of goats to pull it.
Alas, the HOA does not allow livestock.
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