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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 10-09-21, 01:44 PM
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Bike ride activity completed. It's a lot harder riding 20 miles off road than on. FYI
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to UT football.
Oof, UT jr.

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Old 10-09-21, 02:48 PM
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Sad. I leave for an hour, and they blow a nice lead and the momentum. Sad cows.
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Some great college football already.
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Originally Posted by Mojo31
That’s a retirement he’ll never forget. I would love that ride, though.
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Old 10-09-21, 03:28 PM
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It has arrived!
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It has arrived!
so, roughly $1,000 per pound fully dressed?
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Old 10-09-21, 03:49 PM
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Originally Posted by DougRNS
so, roughly $1,000 per pound fully dressed?
500 ish
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Discuss.

One of Knoxville's oldest family-owned businesses is closing its doors after pandemic hardships. Greenlee is the second-oldest bike shop in the United States, dating back to 1899.

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Old 10-09-21, 03:52 PM
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Those handlebars in the hot deals thread are a killer price. I thank that same thread for my Easton E100 bars a couple years back.
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Old 10-09-21, 03:58 PM
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
500 ish
not bad. You will make people see now. And rue. Oh will they rue.
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Bet their last help wanted ad went a little something like this:

Bike mechanic needed.
5 years min exp
$8.25 hourly

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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
Bet their last help wanted ad went a little something like this:

Bike mechanic needed.
5 years min exp
$8.25 hourly

Always been curios - what do such gigs pay?
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Old 10-09-21, 04:38 PM
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
Bet their last help wanted ad went a little something like this:

Bike mechanic needed.
5 years min exp
$8.25 hourly

Of course. After all, anyone can fix a bike. #youtubecertifiedmechanic
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
Bet their last help wanted ad went a little something like this:

Bike mechanic needed.
5 years min exp
$8.25 hourly

They said they couldn't get tyres and such.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
They said they couldn't get tyres and such.
Guess I should've quoted where they moaned about their labour woes

Trust me, it's in there
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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
Are you a country music fan or did the title catch your eye? You don't strike me as a country fan. No offense intended, if so. I like older country music.
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Originally Posted by LAJ
Those handlebars in the hot deals thread are a killer price. I thank that same thread for my Easton E100 bars a couple years back.
That's about 3x what I'm willing to pay for bars. But I don't doubt it's a deal.
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Originally Posted by genejockey
That's about 3x what I'm willing to pay for bars. But I don't doubt it's a deal.
I got my Easton crabons for a little less than a third of that.

When they were blowing out the olde round section EC90s - they don't even have cable grooves!
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Old 10-09-21, 05:03 PM
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Originally Posted by genejockey
What, selling Kias? Yeah, I can see how Chevy would be mad about that.
lol, no, stop marking cars above msrp.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
Guess I should've quoted where they moaned about their labour woes

Trust me, it's in there
I've never been there, but it doesn't appear to be a very serious bike shoppe (2nd oldest in America?).

Just wondering if the supply issues are the same/better/worse than six months ago.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
Bet their last help wanted ad went a little something like this:

Bike mechanic needed.
5 years min exp
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I wouldn't be surprised, at all. It seems as if workers are penalized for taking jobs of special interest and/or skill-set; I wouldn't go so far as to say it's a prestige pay-cut, but it's not far off. That's pretty sad, considering that drone workers, whether it's at a fast food joint or a big box store, seem to be starting at $15+/hr these days. Crazy.
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Originally Posted by sbxx1985
Some great college football already.
Bedlam in Amherst!

https://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=32368680
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Iowa is shocking the world.
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