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Old 05-18-22, 06:05 PM
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Also thinking about getting a miniature car with 42mpg hwy. I have a feeling I'd have to take both wheels off of a MTB to get it in there tho

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Maybe if I essentially fold the passenger seat forward I'd only have to remove the front wheel?
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Race number 3 tomorrow night. I’ve done a great job preparing for this one. psych.
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Oooh, I haven't seen a bridge catch a cement mixer before !!!

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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
Oooh, I haven't seen a bridge catch a cement mixer before !!!


That bridge must have come out of no where.


Maybe he though the clearance sign was in meters.

Maybe he can’t read numbers

Hope it’s not his first day. Short career.
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Old 05-18-22, 06:27 PM
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
That bridge must have come out of no where.


Maybe he though the clearance sign was in meters.

Maybe he can’t read numbers

Hope it’s not his first day. Short career.
As one commenter commented:

OFFICER: What were you thinking?
DRIVER: I don't get paid to think, I get paid by the load.

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I don't have the stomach for gambling, of any stripe. Never have.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
Oooh, I haven't seen a bridge catch a cement mixer before !!!

3 meters is indeed low clearance!
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Old 05-18-22, 06:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Bah Humbug
I mean, me neither. The Bank gave us a training course last month for “we can monitor anything and everything you do on your laptop”. Which of course, but the fact that they started saying it all of a second is interesting. Wonder if they’ll can people for slacking. I’d be so heartbroken.
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Originally Posted by seedsbelize2
I don't have the stomach for gambling, of any stripe. Never have.
I don’t do it but every several years, but I enjoy playing multiple Blackjack hands in casinos. Craps too at times, but not as much.
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Got called an Ass hole this morning. Wasn’t even going to bring it up but I’m still upset about it.

On the MUP this morning, and this guy is walking his dog. Pretty normal, except he is in the grass on one side of the mup and his dog is in the trees on the opposite side of the mup. The leash was stretched straight across like a close line.

I called approaching, No response, so I then scream passing left. He couldn’t even get his dog reeled in. I had to basically come to a complete stop, and he calls me an ass hole. All I said, “if a collision was going to happen I’m hitting you and not your dog”.

The world is more populated than ever in history and people still walk around like they are the only ones in it.

500 feet later I come up on a group of elderly taking up the whole path. Got the deer in the headlights while they can’t figure out what to do.


Keep in mind, this is a designated “Bike path”. Bike path was the intent, not bird watcher path, not let my dogs run free path.

anyways it’s only May, it will get worse.
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Originally Posted by Mojo31
I usually toss them when they do not solidly click in place or can be opened easily, especially if they can be opened by hand.
They're just getting broke in!
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
Didint charge me for it. That’s how they get you hooked……..
The mechanic palmed the new link and just put the old one back on. #sucker
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Originally Posted by datlas
Daughter got a job offer as a music teacher where she did her student teaching.
Nice!
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
Got called an Ass hole this morning. Wasn’t even going to bring it up but I’m still upset about it.

On the MUP this morning, and this guy is walking his dog. Pretty normal, except he is in the grass on one side of the mup and his dog is in the trees on the opposite side of the mup. The leash was stretched straight across like a close line.

I called approaching, No response, so I then scream passing left. He couldn’t even get his dog reeled in. I had to basically come to a complete stop, and he calls me an ass hole. All I said, “if a collision was going to happen I’m hitting you and not your dog”.

The world is more populated than ever in history and people still walk around like they are the only ones in it.

500 feet later I come up on a group of elderly taking up the whole path. Got the deer in the headlights while they can’t figure out what to do.


Keep in mind, this is a designated “Bike path”. Bike path was the intent, not bird watcher path, not let my dogs run free path.

anyways it’s only May, it will get worse.
Be careful in those situations. If you go too fast and require a sudden stop, your discs will heat up so much your spokes will break, and you will crash. Either that or the discs will slice thru your limbs like a hot knife thru butter.
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Originally Posted by Mojo31
Be careful in those situations. If you go too fast and require a sudden stop, your discs will heat up so much your spokes will break, and you will crash. Either that or the discs will slice thru your limbs like a hot knife thru butter.

I knew I should have listened to Froome…….
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
I knew I should have listened to Froome…….
Confirmed by the Dutch whiner.
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Daughter got a job offer as a music teacher where she did her student teaching.
Teaching what?
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People here don't get it.
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Originally Posted by Mojo31
Be careful in those situations. If you go too fast and require a sudden stop, your discs will heat up so much your spokes will break, and you will crash. Either that or the discs will slice thru your limbs like a hot knife thru butter.
But before that, you'd never have stopped in time and crashed and asploded in a Michael Bay fireball. So it's really a "pick your poison" situation.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Teaching what?
Music.
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Originally Posted by Mojo31
Music.
To whom?
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To whom?
Students.
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If I had been more talented, I could see myself enjoying music education. High school or above. Not kids.
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If I had been more talented, I could see myself enjoying music education. High school or above. Not kids.
Not enough coin.
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
Got called an Ass hole this morning. Wasn’t even going to bring it up but I’m still upset about it.

On the MUP this morning, and this guy is walking his dog. Pretty normal, except he is in the grass on one side of the mup and his dog is in the trees on the opposite side of the mup. The leash was stretched straight across like a close line.

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The world is more populated than ever in history and people still walk around like they are the only ones in it.

500 feet later I come up on a group of elderly taking up the whole path. Got the deer in the headlights while they can’t figure out what to do.


Keep in mind, this is a designated “Bike path”. Bike path was the intent, not bird watcher path, not let my dogs run free path.

anyways it’s only May, it will get worse.
I avoid them at all costs while in the USA. Here, recreational cycling isn't a thing, so it's not an issue.
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