By jlwallen on
6/28/2008 10:21 PM
the single speed virus has infected another...my wife!
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By pamster on
6/26/2008 4:58 PM
If you haven't figured out yet - my blog entries are song names.
No I didn't get dumped.....yet, but give me a few weeks. No I didn't dump my road bike. We actually kissed and made up (read my first blog entry if you're lost). It's been fixed/repaired and moved from the car to the cool indoors. But it will have to stay indoors because I'm choosing another bike this weekend. A woman's perogative. Heading north on a little road trip; self-imposed triathlon adventure and a small solo singing gig (my apologies to the other Four Easy Pieces). The triathlon adventure is composed of hiking, canoeing and mountain biking. There's storms in the forecast. HA!!!! I laugh in the face of weather.com. So stay tuned for a road trip, triathlon report when I return. If it really does rain then I ain't telling ya what we did! Or if it's a total disaster I'll block it out ...
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By jlwallen on
6/25/2008 10:25 PM
Have you ever ridden with 1/2 a front brake? Have you ever ridden a fully-rigid single speed with 1/2 a front brake? I have. It's scary.
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By WebGuy on
6/20/2008 5:56 PM
I've been buying Felts for a while. I started out on Cannondales in my teens and have ridden a number of nice rides along the way. Most recently I had a Felt F4C which was pretty much the nicest road bike I've ever owned. I've been riding and racing it for about a year. It's a great bike and a great value for a full carbon bike with Dura Ace on it.
All was well until Joe at Cyclers pulled me aside before one Tuesday Night Worlds and said "I have a deal for you on a new Felt FC Frame". A couple of conversation with my wife about how upgrading my felt meant she could have my F4C frame for herself and I pulled the trigger on the new bike.
I've been riding it a lot and raced it last weekend and just have to say that this bike rocks.
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By pamster on
6/19/2008 4:52 PM
Two of my passions are music and cycling - true Rock 'n Roll - get it? I ride my bike a lot and sing/play keys in a local rock band, Five Easy Pieces. Walk into my living room and you'll see two keyboards (the ones that make music) an acoustic guitar signed by Alison Kraus, 3 bikes, bike paraphernalia thrown on the floor and oh yeah - a couch and a TV. I do have to warn you up front that I'm pretty certain I have adult-onset ADD so getting off-track in a blog is a given. And I'm sitting outside typing this (gotta love wireless) so if a bird flies by or a squirrel and his/her significant other do some sort of high-wire trapeze act from tree to tree, game over. And don't even get me started on possibly seeing a shiny object because at that point I've checked out. Yep I'm pretty sure it's ADD and certainly not the aging process. I've been told on numerous occasions I don't act my age (40 something). Was that a slam ...
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By scopes monkey on
6/10/2008 1:25 PM
Leave house about 6:25. Damn, getting a late start.
First few sections of trail uneventful.
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By PR on
6/3/2008 8:36 PM
Since the early days of this country one of the popular themes for entertainment was to portray Americans travelling abroad among natives in strange lands. Americans are always pictured as being smarter and taller and better looking than the locals, always better educated, and always having the true grasp of the situation at hand. The natives on the other hand were always portrayed as being more primative, sometimes shorter and fatter, and maybe missing a few teeth, speaking poor english. Variations on this have been popular since Sam Clemens, and run on through to Hope and Crosbys Road To series of films.
In the past few months I've spent time in Manhattan, and at Disney World. Surrounded by cultures that are better educated than us. People that are taller. Have better healthcare. That are multilingual.
Standing among short, fat, poorly educated Americans.
It's the same old joke.
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