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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 12-04-21, 03:28 PM
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
That’s a shame.
It was years ago.
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Old 12-04-21, 03:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
One assumes LAJ is at a basketball activity.

https://twitter.com/GoVols247/status...22779179282435
That would not be a safe bet. I think he's out doing LSD at 9000 feet.
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Go Owls!
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Originally Posted by Mojo31
This view is more telling of the neighborhood: 1203 S 6th St - Google Maps

Pretty ****** neighborhood. There are a lot of house flippers in Austin who are buying run down stuff and then remodeling. The end result is a lot of people trying to make tons off the finished product after watching too much HGTV.

No way that thing is worth almost $1,300 per foot, but someone will likely pay it.

You know what they say about fools and their money.
ALWAYS check out the neighborhood on Google Street View. You're supposed to buy the cheapest house in a good neighborhood, not the most expensive in a s**t neighborhood.
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Up 14 with 5 minutes to go. Go Owls!
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Old 12-04-21, 03:54 PM
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Another championship.

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Old 12-04-21, 04:19 PM
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Originally Posted by datlas
We don’t. I know that sounds funny, but it’s how I was raised.
I haven't since my divorce. It saves me from having to take it down.
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Sad day for the Owls. Up 14 with less than 5 minutes to go, they give up a touchdown then the ensuing onside kick is recovered and ETSU marches down the field and score. Then they get the 2 point conversion. Lots of bad things.
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Originally Posted by datlas
Was on a ride.
Hey! Me too!!

This was the 4th monthly Bike Forums SF Peninsula C&V Ride. This time we had FOUR people, up from the ONE person last month.
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I have a little crink in my crank and it’s driving me nuts, but I don’t have time to disassemble anything until my draft quadrennial review report is handed in next week and an all day meeting on Saturday is out of the way and the tree is bought and set up on Sunday... Just gonna have to live with it.
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Originally Posted by datlas
We don’t. I know that sounds funny, but it’s how I was raised.
I was raised with the tree going up on Christmas Eve. This worked out okay for Dad, because where I grew up, you go to a local farmer who set aside orchard space for Christmas trees, and you find one and cut it yourself. So you don't worry about them 'running out', because the trees don't come from British Columbia.

The other thing, and I always found this somewhat magical, is that you don't see the tree and the house all decorated until the night before Christmas, which means that the tree is still alive on Christmas and you're not tired of it yet.

The other thing I realized as I grew older was that all of Dad's strings of lights were wired in series, so "one goes out, they all go out". And they were old, so they went out. By not putting up the tree until Christmas Eve, you had the best chance of all the lights still working on Christmas.

However, it is no longer possible to wait much later than about the 15th anymore, or you're down to Charlie Brown Trees.
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Originally Posted by Mojo31
This view is more telling of the neighborhood: 1203 S 6th St - Google Maps

Pretty ****** neighborhood. There are a lot of house flippers in Austin who are buying run down stuff and then remodeling. The end result is a lot of people trying to make tons off the finished product after watching too much HGTV.

No way that thing is worth almost $1,300 per foot, but someone will likely pay i

You know what they say about fools and their money.
Great location, but ai cabron chinga!
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Old 12-04-21, 04:43 PM
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Jackie is very comfortable. The pic in the background is mrs datlas and me at age 24.


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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
Great location, but ai cabron chinga!
Would not want my daughter living in that hood. It's really not a great location.
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Originally Posted by DougRNS
Sad day for the Owls.
Messed with the wrong state. Sad indeed.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Messed with the wrong state. Sad indeed.
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I hit the back button and found myself in another thread
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Tough night in the north metro ATL.
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
slow day, everyone must be decorating their Christmas Trees.
I did that last Saturday- last yard work of the year today
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Sad. There's only two Bass players.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
One assumes LAJ is at a basketball activity.

https://twitter.com/GoVols247/status...22779179282435
Negatory, Ghost Rider. I wrestled, and that was during basketball season, so I never took a shine to it. I can barely dribble a ball, but I certainly do know how to dribble...
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Originally Posted by seedsbelize2
I returned them for normal length stems.
Normal Length=60mm
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Originally Posted by LAJ
Normal Length=60mm
my stem is longer than that!
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Originally Posted by datlas
Not enough. Strava says 4800 feet in 61 miles. I usually aim for a mile and ideally, 100 feet/mile. But my friends don’t all share my climbing passion.
That's about what I did. The club had a 95 mile ride with over 7500 feet but three of us started on the other side and rode up to meet them then rode with them to the base of their return climb, then the three of us slackers turned back. Of course we had 15+ miles of headwind then.
The other group was about 8 good climbers but by the time we split with them it seemed like they would be cutting it close with the sundown.

My ankle hurt, my back hurt, and I felt like a fat slug but the last 20 miles was fine and I had a good time. On the way out they stopped for coffee and I went ahead and did the next section by myself. One of them put in a TT trying to catch me but he did not. I got to the stop first and chatted with 3 super fit looking guys on gravel bikes and they described their ride to me. They were buying beers at the store and they were heading to a long climb and planned to drink the beers at the top.
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Originally Posted by seedsbelize2
I remember the first time I accidentally bought tubes with those mile long valve stems
I buy them on purpose, but I have 50mm deep rims.
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