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#5376
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#5377
Mostly Harmless
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#5378
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Mrs. rjones28 learned to drive on a stick shift car -- her mother's MK 1 Golf (aka Rabbit). The only cars we've owned with automatic transmissions have been those with none available. Like minivans and Mercedes-Benz.
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#5380
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#5381
VFL For Life
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#5382
VFL For Life
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#5383
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#5384
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#5386
Klaatu..Verata..Necktie?
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Mrs. GeneJockey learned how to drive a stick back around the time she moved out here in '82. She then proudly drove nothing but manuals till she got her Sienna in 2001. After that, she's sometimes drive my Subaru, with its manual and she actually enjoyed it, but when it came time to buy the Dodge, I'd been complaining so much about having to deal with a clutch in traffic that she threatened grievous bodily harm if I didn't get an automatic. So I did. I sometimes wish I'd gotten the manual - more fun, and longer legs on the freeway - but the old Mercedes NAG5 that Chrysler got from its brief marriage to Daimler Benz works fine, though when it manual mode you have to pull the paddles or flick the lever 1/2 second before you want to shift.
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"Everybody's gotta be somewhere." - Eccles
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"Everybody's gotta be somewhere." - Eccles
#5387
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There is a thread for that: Suggestions to keep up on the hills? - Bike Forums
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#5391
serious cyclist
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#5394
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Something to work towards! First, to keep up. Then, to be one of those guys that causes little groans of consternation when you roll up to the start.
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#5395
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Tribalism:
We have been under a mask mandate for a little over two years. Outside, inside, in the car. If you're away from home, you're masked. There were some outliers, the young toughs and the old salts come to mind. But it was a visible population. Earlier this week the outdoor and open space part of that mandate was lifted. And the peer pressure foot came down hard. NO ONE is unmasked anymore. The toughs and the salts are going out of their way to flaunt their masks. I had two mask free rides through town and then had to put it back on. Otherwise, when things change again there will be an obvious scapegoat.
I'm going into the city in a few minutes and expect to see a radical difference there.
We have been under a mask mandate for a little over two years. Outside, inside, in the car. If you're away from home, you're masked. There were some outliers, the young toughs and the old salts come to mind. But it was a visible population. Earlier this week the outdoor and open space part of that mandate was lifted. And the peer pressure foot came down hard. NO ONE is unmasked anymore. The toughs and the salts are going out of their way to flaunt their masks. I had two mask free rides through town and then had to put it back on. Otherwise, when things change again there will be an obvious scapegoat.
I'm going into the city in a few minutes and expect to see a radical difference there.
Fear?
Or simple mistrust?
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#5396
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@Velo Vol.
I will have some lunch and get after that painting. I promised the wife I'd do some weed eating this afternoon too
I will have some lunch and get after that painting. I promised the wife I'd do some weed eating this afternoon too
#5397
serious cyclist
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I wish people here were defiantly masking. I have a bunch of coworkers on-site in CLT and one of the vendors is out with Covid. Did one of his people catch it and is spreading it right now to everyone there? Who knows! Glad I’m home though.
#5398
Should Be More Popular
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#5399
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Todays ride felt fantastic up to the point I thought I was going to pass out. I usually eat at mile 30 but I didn’t want to stop, waiting til mile 68 was a massive mistake.
Bought some reese’s and a coke. Instantly felt like I was going to vomit and had to cut the ride short.
Bought some reese’s and a coke. Instantly felt like I was going to vomit and had to cut the ride short.
#5400
cowboy, steel horse, etc
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McKenzie Pass is open for bikes but still closed for cars If it's still closed for cars next Sun/Mon I might have to head up there