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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 09-28-17, 08:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Maybe this will get me banned.
Keep that up and it might.
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Old 09-28-17, 08:30 PM
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Originally Posted by rpenmanparker
36 years for me.
That answers a lot of questions.
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Old 09-28-17, 08:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Maybe this will get me in the mood. Just add a balaclava + cycling shoes and you're ready to roll.

I'm still trying to digest this.
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Old 09-28-17, 08:34 PM
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Originally Posted by LAJ
I'm still trying to digest this.
We could delete it. Only Vol would complain, then we could delete HIM.
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Old 09-28-17, 08:35 PM
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Originally Posted by BillyD
We could delete it. Only Vol would complain, then we could delete HIM.
Good points all the way around
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Originally Posted by BillyD
Yet another noteworthy understatement for the year.
I think "stability" is overrated but DSDF. When I met LoP, he was down to about 5 bikes and owned 0 sofas. Even now, we don't have our own sofa. If I had $1000 to spend on bikes or on sofas, I'd pick bikes every time.
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Old 09-28-17, 08:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Ramona_W
I think "stability" is overrated but DSDF. When I met LoP, he was down to about 5 bikes and owned 0 sofas. Even now, we don't have our own sofa. If I had $1000 to spend on bikes or on sofas, I'd pick bikes every time.
We need more like you, Ramona.
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Old 09-28-17, 08:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Ramona_W
I think "stability" is overrated but DSDF. When I met LoP, he was down to about 5 bikes and owned 0 sofas. Even now, we don't have our own sofa. If I had $1000 to spend on bikes or on sofas, I'd pick bikes every time.
Originally Posted by seedsbelize
We need more like you, Ramona.
I knew there was a reason I always felt like an outlier around here.
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Old 09-28-17, 08:56 PM
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Originally Posted by sbxx1985
But there's still a chance.
I've tried to convince myself of this too many times over the years.
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People here don't get it.
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Old 09-28-17, 08:57 PM
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Originally Posted by BillyD
I knew there was a reason I always felt like an outlier around here.
I could never get it into my head that nothing was more important than the bikes.
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Old 09-28-17, 09:19 PM
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Originally Posted by seedsbelize
Quote it, then copy and paste it to your sig on the edit page.
Thanks.
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"The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience."
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Originally Posted by BillyD
I could never get it into my head that nothing was more important than the bikes.
Love>bikes>a crapton of other stuff that makes us less happy than either of those.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
I've tried to convince myself of this too many times over the years.
Trubisky. Four TO is enough.
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Old 09-28-17, 09:53 PM
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Originally Posted by datlas
Reminds me that my nephew (sister's son) just got a job fresh out of law school, apparently a good one as he is making more $$ than me.
Does he get to golf on Wed?

Didnt think so.
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Watching this game is a tremendous waste of time.
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Originally Posted by BillyD
Prolly.

She prolly also mentioned he doesn't have Wednesdays off.
Oops, I'm late to the party.
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Originally Posted by Ramona_W
I think "stability" is overrated but DSDF. When I met LoP, he was down to about 5 bikes and owned 0 sofas. Even now, we don't have our own sofa. If I had $1000 to spend on bikes or on sofas, I'd pick bikes every time.


The Sofa-Bike: The Perfect Green Transport For Couch Potatoes
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Old 09-28-17, 10:28 PM
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That's a sofa trike.

#falseadvertising
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
That's a sofa trike.

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It would be safe to try clipless on one of these.
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Old 09-29-17, 12:36 AM
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...are dics breaks the future of sofa trikes ?
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Old 09-29-17, 03:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Maybe this will get me in the mood. Just add a balaclava + cycling shoes and you're ready to roll.

Looks like he needs a scarf and some cycling socks.
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Old 09-29-17, 03:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Ramona_W
I think "stability" is overrated but DSDF. When I met LoP, he was down to about 5 bikes and owned 0 sofas. Even now, we don't have our own sofa. If I had $1000 to spend on bikes or on sofas, I'd pick bikes every time.
Come to think of it, when I met her AG had two bikes, 0 sofas, and a very crappy 27" TV she had in college (which is still doing trainer duty, though I really want to replace it with a disturbingly-cheap TCL 49S405). She did have a crummy old Ikea loveseat, but it was way out of the way and being used as a storage bench.
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Ramona, whose sofa do you have? And you know you don't really have to have a sofa. A couch would do fine.
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We only have a sofa because my wife insists.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
A third sport/activity I'll suck at in the Spring.
It's always good to diversify the suckage.
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