Mr. Pickles
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I had a dream I caught Brit using a smilie once.
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proninja
Footballguy
It should be a piece of cake to average 10mph. It would take you a half hour.
Do it. With a helmet, unless you want your daughter to help teach you to walk and talk again.
Britney Spears
guest speaker
Not totally sure how they work (actually true).
St. Louis Bob
Footballguy
Helmets? What a bunch of dickcats.
proninja
Footballguy
General Malaise
Footballguy
Mr. Pickles
Footballguy
I too would like to buy a new bike soon. I still have an old Trek 830 that's 20 years old. I'd like something more like a road bike so I don't feel like I'm working twice as hard just overcoming friction. Whatcha got under $1k?
General Malaise
Footballguy
proninja
Footballguy
Mr. Pickles
Footballguy
Weekend rides mostly. Paved paths. I usually do 15-30 miles. Not exactly a pleasure cruise with knobby mountain bike tires.
General Malaise
Footballguy
Not trying to invade privacy, but where are you living now? Good bike area?
Really excited this summer to explore some new ways home from the office. Met a fellow bike guy on the train last week who told me about a couple of cool ways back to Beaverton that involve something called Bull Mountain. 65% of my current ride is through trails without any traffic, which is really nice, but the better weather means an increase in walkers, so it slows me down. And man, some of these older walkers can be a bit surly when you try to alert them of your presence. I refuse to buy a bell, but if somebody can find me one of these I'll be eternally grateful.
Abraham
Footballguy
New business idea: bicycle helmet with optical device that makes a noise when it sees someone on the path in front of the rider. :mansion:
General Malaise
Footballguy
Tanner > Bad News Bears - Basic Training from 1977 is on MLB Network tonight. Worth seeing? Bad News Bears still talked about in Malaise home.
General Malaise
Footballguy
General Malaise
Footballguy
Osaurus
Footballguy
Fight to the death for it with MOP?Hoping when it reaches 3000, Joe hires me for staff.
proninja
Footballguy
Either something like this
http://www.specialized.com/us/en/bikes/multi-use/sirrus/sirruselite
or like this
http://www.specialized.com/us/en/bikes/road/allez/allezelitemidcompact
Floor prices are $750 and $1000 on those two, respectively
Mr. Pickles
Footballguy
Limp Ditka
Footballguy
Worth seeing as in 'I've never seen this.'?
proninja
Footballguy
Benefit of a flat bar bike - more upright is more comfortable for most people, cheaper, can usually fit wider tires on for winter or light dirt/gravel, can put a rack on it if you so desire
Benefit of a drop bar bike - more efficient, more hand positions, more powerful riding position
When you're in a more aggressive position (more bent over) you elongate your glute and allow it to do a bit more work in your pedal stroke, and you also push less wind. So not only are you more powerful, you are more efficient as well. This is good if you like to go faster. The multiple hand positions is great over longer rides, and it allows you to get your center of gravity lower when descending for more stability, which is nice when you're going fast down a hill. Also, if you want to ride with friends who own drop bar bikes, you'll be doing a lot more work to keep up with them if you have a flat bar bike.
For utilitarian, shorter distance stuff, a flat bar bike is probably the right call. For recreation, group, or longer distance stuff I'd go with a drop bar bike.
Benefit of a drop bar bike - more efficient, more hand positions, more powerful riding position
When you're in a more aggressive position (more bent over) you elongate your glute and allow it to do a bit more work in your pedal stroke, and you also push less wind. So not only are you more powerful, you are more efficient as well. This is good if you like to go faster. The multiple hand positions is great over longer rides, and it allows you to get your center of gravity lower when descending for more stability, which is nice when you're going fast down a hill. Also, if you want to ride with friends who own drop bar bikes, you'll be doing a lot more work to keep up with them if you have a flat bar bike.
For utilitarian, shorter distance stuff, a flat bar bike is probably the right call. For recreation, group, or longer distance stuff I'd go with a drop bar bike.
General Malaise
Footballguy
Guster
Footballguy
Do you have something in a super upper elite?
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Captain Quinoa
Footballguy
Ok shuke
Crazy Canuck
Footballguy
Crazy Canuck
Footballguy
eurotrashman
Footballguy
Call your kid whatever the #### you want.
Limp Ditka
Footballguy
St. Louis Bob
Footballguy
Thought the joke was rather obvious. Although I am sort of against helmets. Kids are so insulated these days they don't seem to have to grasp the reality that pain is life and find themselves as hopeless adults. /getoffmylawn
Couple Sunday cocktails, Bob?
Mr. Pickles
Footballguy
On your own time. This is my house.Call your kid whatever the #### you want.
Raider Nation
Devil's Advocate
Cat question:
We all know that purring is the sound of a happy cat. And when they whip their tail every few seconds, there's a cat that's fixin to get pretty angry about something. But what the hell does it mean when they do both at the same time?
My current cat does that all the time. Never saw that before in other cats.
Pls help. Will answer yours.
We all know that purring is the sound of a happy cat. And when they whip their tail every few seconds, there's a cat that's fixin to get pretty angry about something. But what the hell does it mean when they do both at the same time?
My current cat does that all the time. Never saw that before in other cats.Pls help. Will answer yours.
St. Louis Bob
Footballguy
Brought the family to the Cards game last night to celebrate Cal's birthday. Other than the score, it was awesome. They didn't fight or say they were bored or ask to leave. As a matter of fact, Dyl seems to have his first love which was mine as well at his age. Baseball. It seems to be all he wants to do now and that, like Jesus, is alright with me.
I told Cal he could get all he could eat so he took me up on it. (Pic of Cal and me.) Man, this kid can eat. He wanted to start with cotton candy but I told him to eat something more nutritious, like a hot dog.
Then he wanted to go get nachos. On his own. No worries, let him go. But then the cotton candy connection dried up. He spied them in the outfield and I was prepared to walk all the way around the stadium to get some. Hey a promise is a promise. When I notice a couple sneaking into the good seats and she had half a bags worth. Watch this I tell Cal. Go down a couple aisles her date/husband looked like WTF does this guy want and I offer her eight bucks for her stash. She says "are you serious" and I reply "you don't know how serious I am". I procure the cotton candy and everybody was happy. So much fun.
I told Cal he could get all he could eat so he took me up on it. (Pic of Cal and me.) Man, this kid can eat. He wanted to start with cotton candy but I told him to eat something more nutritious, like a hot dog.
Then he wanted to go get nachos. On his own. No worries, let him go. But then the cotton candy connection dried up. He spied them in the outfield and I was prepared to walk all the way around the stadium to get some. Hey a promise is a promise. When I notice a couple sneaking into the good seats and she had half a bags worth. Watch this I tell Cal. Go down a couple aisles her date/husband looked like WTF does this guy want and I offer her eight bucks for her stash. She says "are you serious" and I reply "you don't know how serious I am". I procure the cotton candy and everybody was happy. So much fun.
St. Louis Bob
Footballguy
Cal's birthday party at Brunswick Zone. They have a full, huge, bar. Man I love this kid.Couple Sunday cocktails, Bob?
Frostillicus
Footballguy
St. Louis Bob
Footballguy
I told him to put a red shirt on. He did. Mrs. SLB was pissed because he has a Card's shirt but wasn't wearing it. Nuts to her.
Also, played lasertag for the first time with the kids at the party. It was incredibly fun.
mr. furley
Footballguy
means they're both mad?Cat question:
We all know that purring is the sound of a happy cat. And when they whip their tail every few seconds, there's a cat that's fixin to get pretty angry about something. But what the hell does it mean when they do both at the same time?
Pls help. Will answer yours.
Crazy Canuck
Footballguy
Since we're doing Father-Son pics, today The Child Formerly Known as Flaming Bird and me reenacted a scene from The Big Lebowski.
Just imagine me screaming, "MARK IT ZERO!"
Just imagine me screaming, "MARK IT ZERO!"
Officer Pete Malloy
Footballguy
Probably too late but...
Comes nowhere close to the original. I'll watch it if it comes on just for the nostalgia factor.
Officer Pete Malloy
Footballguy
Thanks.
We won again (3 in a row). The other teams really don't like us. There were some actual booing going on when the M.C. introduced us as the reigning 2-time champs. And when we went up to get our trophies most of the crowd decided that was a good time to pack up and leave.
Raider Nation
Devil's Advocate
Both what?means they're both mad?Cat question:
We all know that purring is the sound of a happy cat. And when they whip their tail every few seconds, there's a cat that's fixin to get pretty angry about something. But what the hell does it mean when they do both at the same time?
Pls help. Will answer yours.
General Malaise
Footballguy
Mr. Pickles
Footballguy
Is that Fernando Rodney?
General Malaise
Footballguy
mr. furley
Footballguy
mad?Both what?means they're both mad?Cat question:
We all know that purring is the sound of a happy cat. And when they whip their tail every few seconds, there's a cat that's fixin to get pretty angry about something. But what the hell does it mean when they do both at the same time?
Pls help. Will answer yours.
Mr. Pickles
Footballguy
Mark McGwire begs for your forgiveness.
General Malaise
Footballguy
Let's go Ottowa..
CC, anything fun to do in Ottowa?
CC, anything fun to do in Ottowa?
General Malaise
Footballguy
Mr. Pickles
Footballguy
Where's Ottowa?
General Malaise
Footballguy
Our Memphis Grizzlies got off to a dud of a start. We're going to need to shake that one off and come out strong next week or whenever Game 2 is.
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