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10-10-21, 07:12 PM
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10-10-21, 07:14 PM
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10-10-21, 07:14 PM
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only 20 left in it.
I just remembered I have the old Shimano rs wheels hanging on the wall. If it low tomororw I will just pull the super team off and throw the old wheel on. My spare tube will work on it too.
LAJ might lose his mind when if he sees the mismatched wheels…..
I just remembered I have the old Shimano rs wheels hanging on the wall. If it low tomororw I will just pull the super team off and throw the old wheel on. My spare tube will work on it too.
LAJ might lose his mind when if he sees the mismatched wheels…..
10-10-21, 07:18 PM
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I agree with you 100 percent.
But the idea of putting gators back on it, plus the no whoosh whoosh of the carbon wheels does make me consider.
I think I get to test ride the madone tomorrow so I will just pick up some tubes then and get it all squared away.
I don’t know what the weather has been like where you guys are at but it has been randomly spitting rain all day with nothing on the radar over us. I think it’s suppose to be like that tomororw so I want to avoid using the Ritchey if there is any chance of wetness.
10-10-21, 07:21 PM
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I agree with you 100 percent.
But the idea of putting gators back on it, plus the no whoosh whoosh of the carbon wheels does make me consider.
I think I get to test ride the madone tomorrow so I will just pick up some tubes then and get it all squared away.
I don’t know what the weather has been like where you guys are at but it has been randomly spitting rain all day with nothing on the radar over us. I think it’s suppose to be like that tomororw so I want to avoid using the Ritchey if there is any chance of wetness.
But the idea of putting gators back on it, plus the no whoosh whoosh of the carbon wheels does make me consider.
I think I get to test ride the madone tomorrow so I will just pick up some tubes then and get it all squared away.
I don’t know what the weather has been like where you guys are at but it has been randomly spitting rain all day with nothing on the radar over us. I think it’s suppose to be like that tomororw so I want to avoid using the Ritchey if there is any chance of wetness.
10-10-21, 07:25 PM
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I've been driving to the bike path more often and spinning around for a couple hours. I like to have a snack on a bench and people watch. Last time a guy rode up on a nice looking Specialized of some kind and slammed it into the bike rack knocking the top tube against the rack. He then gasps and groans and acts like he was really gassed. Young dude, looked fit, new shoes, etc.
Anyway today I'm out there again eating a granola bar and a young lady rides by with this same dude like 50 yards behind her. A few minutes later she comes back and pulls into the rest area and I say "Good morning". She smiles and says 'morning and parks her bike. About then the guy comes rolling in looking really tired, flips the bike upside down and launches into his histrionics, gasping, hyperventilating, and looking like he just raced up Mount Evans. I guess his girlfriend worked him pretty good on the old mup.
Anyway I got a kick out of it.
Anyway today I'm out there again eating a granola bar and a young lady rides by with this same dude like 50 yards behind her. A few minutes later she comes back and pulls into the rest area and I say "Good morning". She smiles and says 'morning and parks her bike. About then the guy comes rolling in looking really tired, flips the bike upside down and launches into his histrionics, gasping, hyperventilating, and looking like he just raced up Mount Evans. I guess his girlfriend worked him pretty good on the old mup.
Anyway I got a kick out of it.
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10-10-21, 07:29 PM
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only 20 left in it.
I just remembered I have the old Shimano rs wheels hanging on the wall. If it low tomororw I will just pull the super team off and throw the old wheel on. My spare tube will work on it too.
LAJ might lose his mind when if he sees the mismatched wheels…..
I just remembered I have the old Shimano rs wheels hanging on the wall. If it low tomororw I will just pull the super team off and throw the old wheel on. My spare tube will work on it too.
LAJ might lose his mind when if he sees the mismatched wheels…..
10-10-21, 07:30 PM
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10-10-21, 07:35 PM
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10-10-21, 07:37 PM
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10-10-21, 07:47 PM
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Reminder that baseball is dumb. If you're a defender, you can be rewarded for hitting the ball out of play.
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10-10-21, 07:50 PM
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I still patch tubes.
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10-10-21, 07:55 PM
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I've been driving to the bike path more often and spinning around for a couple hours. I like to have a snack on a bench and people watch. Last time a guy rode up on a nice looking Specialized of some kind and slammed it into the bike rack knocking the top tube against the rack. He then gasps and groans and acts like he was really gassed. Young dude, looked fit, new shoes, etc.
Anyway today I'm out there again eating a granola bar and a young lady rides by with this same dude like 50 yards behind her. A few minutes later she comes back and pulls into the rest area and I say "Good morning". She smiles and says 'morning and parks her bike. About then the guy comes rolling in looking really tired, flips the bike upside down and launches into his histrionics, gasping, hyperventilating, and looking like he just raced up Mount Evans. I guess his girlfriend worked him pretty good on the old mup.
Anyway I got a kick out of it.
Anyway today I'm out there again eating a granola bar and a young lady rides by with this same dude like 50 yards behind her. A few minutes later she comes back and pulls into the rest area and I say "Good morning". She smiles and says 'morning and parks her bike. About then the guy comes rolling in looking really tired, flips the bike upside down and launches into his histrionics, gasping, hyperventilating, and looking like he just raced up Mount Evans. I guess his girlfriend worked him pretty good on the old mup.
Anyway I got a kick out of it.
10-10-21, 07:57 PM
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10-10-21, 08:02 PM
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10-10-21, 08:13 PM
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10-10-21, 08:16 PM
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once I'm healed up, come on down for a ride and experience the joy of unencumbered freedom. I'll even buy you a vegan friendly meal.
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10-10-21, 08:25 PM
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Oh boy.
10-10-21, 08:26 PM
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1 Gratuitous shot of Roscoe from BITD
2 Shot from Alabama looking to Georgia on the Silver Comet trail
10-10-21, 08:28 PM
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That's where they're gonna have the stock car race!
I wonder if that episode happened before the motocross races there or after they started.
Here's some vintage action there.
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10-10-21, 08:29 PM
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before I became a former cyclist, I rode the mup 3 or 4 days/week after work. I'm not sure why the mup is so derided. I ride the silver Comet trail and it is 60 miles long and not heavily cluttered by walkers, meanderers and the like except around trailheads on the last 15 miles on the eastern end. I don't ride much that way so I enjoy the car free, minimal hassle experience quite a bit. Miles are miles.
When I first started riding I lived near a park with a 5 mile bike path loop. I thought I was a badass bike rider when I did the whole thing. Later, I graduated to 2 laps and was ready for the Tour de France.
10-10-21, 08:29 PM
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10-10-21, 08:34 PM
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10-10-21, 08:41 PM
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Lightning delay?
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10-10-21, 08:51 PM
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Stadiums were much simpler BITD. I only see one small media skybox.