OldEd
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Reged: 02/05/04
Posts: 117
Loc: The Great South
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bike should I buy for under $200? Is steel real? Should I wear tidy whities under my cycling shorts?
SOMETHING! ANYTHING!
A monthlong "discussion" of "bottle cage recommendations" will NOT get it, my friends. Hell, at least change the subject line (a very bad habit on this board, not changing subject lines. Leads to boredom, discourages thread drift. Thread drift is a GOOD thing.) At least make the subject line interesting. Instead of "bottle cage recommendations," make it "Vile Bottle Cage Madness -- Warning, hideousness." THAT will generate some clicks.
I've been boiled up in the early stages of getting a Senate campaign off the ground, and haven't had time to either ride or liven this board properly.
Are any old RBRers still checking in? Sound off.
John Kerry rides a bike, a LOT. Will that make him a better President? Ho, ho.
I want topic churn, action and craziness NOW. No more bottle cage recommendations, none.
Now, who'll go first?
Ed
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Dave_Thompson
prophet
Reged: 12/19/03
Posts: 717
Loc: Spokane, Washington
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Why the h*ll would you want to waste perfectly good riding time being a polititian? Or working for one? Have you been watching too much West Wing? I think so.
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Steel lover, but then I like Ti with carbon too.
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codisc
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Reged: 02/25/04
Posts: 21
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Hey OldEdScott,
I started the bottle cage thread and it was important to me, those who responded, and a couple hundred people who looked at it. You haven't been here contributing so don't berate the rest of us.
codisc
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OldEd
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Reged: 02/05/04
Posts: 117
Loc: The Great South
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Just tryin to stir things up, man. No personal attack on you, for God's sake. Your post was perfectly appropriate and great, but hardly enough to carry the board for a month, is all I was saying.
So far I'm doing what I set out to do though: Two people have posted, and one had a topic line (Kiss my ass) that will generate clicks!
Do forgive me though!
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Dave_Thompson
prophet
Reged: 12/19/03
Posts: 717
Loc: Spokane, Washington
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OldEd: Seein' how you're a political consultant, and this is an election year, perhaps we can revive the Campy vs Shimano debates in a new set of clothes.
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Steel lover, but then I like Ti with carbon too.
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OldEd
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Reged: 02/05/04
Posts: 117
Loc: The Great South
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You've asked MY kind of question.
Democrats are lighter, and climb better, and in most instances are faster. If you want to race, they're your choice. Republicans are a bit heavier, but with a sweet all day ride ride. But they rust, and they're very old fashioned.
That what you mean?
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Dave_Thompson
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Loc: Spokane, Washington
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You're telling me Republicans are lugged!?!?
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Steel lover, but then I like Ti with carbon too.
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OldEd
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Loc: The Great South
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Bringing up lugs blows the analogy. Because Republicans ain't that pretty!
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Dave_Thompson
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Reged: 12/19/03
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Loc: Spokane, Washington
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and I'm a Republican. Two of my bikes are lugged, so they must be Republican too.
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Steel lover, but then I like Ti with carbon too.
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OldEd
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Loc: The Great South
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But then again, who knows? Maybe all our bikes vote for Ralph Nader. He seems like someone a bike might like.
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Dave_Thompson
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Posts: 717
Loc: Spokane, Washington
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Now there's a guy who had his 15 minutes of fame, and like a weed keeps trying to come back and ruin your lawn. IMO he's just a shadow of his former self and doesn't know when to quit.
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Steel lover, but then I like Ti with carbon too.
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OldEd
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Reged: 02/05/04
Posts: 117
Loc: The Great South
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But, you know, bikes tend to be anti-SUV tofu-eating environmentalist liberals. Mine is anyway.
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Dave_Thompson
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Reged: 12/19/03
Posts: 717
Loc: Spokane, Washington
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Somehow I can't vizualize my Litespeed grazing in a tofu patch.
Some people think of bikes as being liberals, I but have a full sized conversion van that I use to transport our bikes to the various rides we attend. Does that mean my bikes are being subverted? Every now and then I find my van's radio station tuned to Michael Savage. Hmm.
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Steel lover, but then I like Ti with carbon too.
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easypedaler
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Reged: 02/08/04
Posts: 149
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Ever.
I do not like Tofu
Ralph Nader. He is so damn old my grandfather voted for him.
Its raining and its going to cut into my riding time. I do not like riding in the rain.
For $200 I can buy 4-5 pairs of volers.
I only ride campy.
I am RBR forum person and despise the new format. Not enough posters here. Those who do post are great but we need more.
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DiabloScott
friend
Reged: 12/30/03
Posts: 35
Loc: Concord, California
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I insisted my first bike be Italian, red, and Campy equipped (Ciöcc, Triomphe... 1985) Worked fine but by the time I needed my second bike Campy had ruined itself (Synchros II, delta brakes, terrible cable routing) so I made the switch. I knew I wouldn't be able to turn back and that moving to Shimano would lock me in to Shimano for a long time and I've never regretted it: second bike had Ultegra 8-speed(1992 still have it), third bike has Dura Ace 9-speed (2002) and my fourth bike will likely be Shimano too but that'll be another 8 years unless I have a bad crash.
I'm all for competition in gruppi (I have never seen that word properly pluralized before!) because it makes Shimano cheaper and better. Campy's fine stuff but multiple screw ups 15 years ago lost them a customer for life. No hard feelings.
I have no comment on tightie whities except that they're not "tidy" whities
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