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#4301
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I can't believe anyone would spend a minute of their tragically short life maintaining or even thinking about grass.
On another subject, snotty roadies who won't wave are one thing, but just wait until some gink decides to make you his riding buddy and talks to you for 10 miles!
On another subject, snotty roadies who won't wave are one thing, but just wait until some gink decides to make you his riding buddy and talks to you for 10 miles!
#4302
So it is
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Westminster, CO
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I can't believe anyone would spend a minute of their tragically short life maintaining or even thinking about grass.
On another subject, snotty roadies who won't wave are one thing, but just wait until some gink decides to make you his riding buddy and talks to you for 10 miles!
On another subject, snotty roadies who won't wave are one thing, but just wait until some gink decides to make you his riding buddy and talks to you for 10 miles!
#4303
VFL For Life
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I can't believe anyone would spend a minute of their tragically short life maintaining or even thinking about grass.
On another subject, snotty roadies who won't wave are one thing, but just wait until some gink decides to make you his riding buddy and talks to you for 10 miles!
On another subject, snotty roadies who won't wave are one thing, but just wait until some gink decides to make you his riding buddy and talks to you for 10 miles!
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#4305
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#4306
Uh....Say what now? Cuddebackville, NY. On a Monday. Not going to happen. I can stay up the road for half that. $50 if I want a riverfront site.
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#4307
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#4308
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#4309
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I've talked about this elsewhere but yeah, RIP flybys. I understand why they nerfed them but I wish there would've been a more elegant solution than what they did.
Semi-related, because I don't care about leaderboards I pretty much turned on all the privacy settings but I think it's dumb that if you want privacy you can't be on leaderboards.
Semi-related, because I don't care about leaderboards I pretty much turned on all the privacy settings but I think it's dumb that if you want privacy you can't be on leaderboards.
#4310
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He's 50 pounds lighter than I am so it's on long climbs that I become his target. He's not a bad guy in small doses.
#4311
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I can't believe anyone would spend a minute of their tragically short life maintaining or even thinking about grass.
On another subject, snotty roadies who won't wave are one thing, but just wait until some gink decides to make you his riding buddy and talks to you for 10 miles!
On another subject, snotty roadies who won't wave are one thing, but just wait until some gink decides to make you his riding buddy and talks to you for 10 miles!
#4312
Klaatu..Verata..Necktie?
Join Date: May 2007
Location: SF Bay Area
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Checked the tracking on my new pedals from PBK:
"Oh, Lord! Stuck in Lodi again..."
"Oh, Lord! Stuck in Lodi again..."
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#4314
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OMG there is a guy in my club who does that. He's kinda Asperger-y in that he doesn't get social ques, doesn't know when to shut up and drones on about medical problems in his family or pets. Also, quite humorless. One time he was going on about his dog's bodily functions and I said "You're grossing me out" but he kept on.
He's 50 pounds lighter than I am so it's on long climbs that I become his target. He's not a bad guy in small doses.
He's 50 pounds lighter than I am so it's on long climbs that I become his target. He's not a bad guy in small doses.
And talking.
And talking.
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#4315
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I've talked about this elsewhere but yeah, RIP flybys. I understand why they nerfed them but I wish there would've been a more elegant solution than what they did.
Semi-related, because I don't care about leaderboards I pretty much turned on all the privacy settings but I think it's dumb that if you want privacy you can't be on leaderboards.
Semi-related, because I don't care about leaderboards I pretty much turned on all the privacy settings but I think it's dumb that if you want privacy you can't be on leaderboards.
In terms of leaderboards and privacy, I can understand it - you should be able to see the specific ride that bumped you down the board. Leaderboards are littered with rides that shouldn't be there, like folks forgetting to stop an activity before getting in to their car or even those that are intentionally cheating and recording rides in vehicles (there's a dude in my area that does this in binges, recording several "rides" over the course of two weeks, then taking a three month sabbatical until doing it again; I don't understand people like this, but they exist).
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#4317
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There is another guy who doesn't talk as much, but can be quite annoying when he does talk. None of the women like him because he's creepy around them. One even told him he was creeping her out. He looked down on me, I guess because he could drop me in the hills. (He's probably 140 pounds). Then last year he had a crash and he's different now. He actually speaks to me as if we are friends and seems less creepy around women.
I don't really care, I'm not going to dinner with him, but it's interesting that he has morphed a little.
There is another guy who doesn't talk as much, but can be quite annoying when he does talk. None of the women like him because he's creepy around them. One even told him he was creeping her out. He looked down on me, I guess because he could drop me in the hills. (He's probably 140 pounds). Then last year he had a crash and he's different now. He actually speaks to me as if we are friends and seems less creepy around women.
I don't really care, I'm not going to dinner with him, but it's interesting that he has morphed a little.
#4318
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So, as kind of a coda for our get-together at The Ancestral Home, one of my sisters had a seizure at the Philadephia airport, waiting for their flight back to Florida, and has been in the hospital since, while they figure out why. Initial observations were very high BP, and very high blood sugar, and now she's been diagnose with previously undiagnosed hypertension and diabetes. She lost 50# in the last 2 years, mostly diet, but now I'm wondering whether the diabetes was part of it, too. She's just a couple years older than me. I'm a little curious how you get to that point undiagnosed, unless you've been avoiding doctors.
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#4319
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fifm
There is another guy who doesn't talk as much, but can be quite annoying when he does talk. None of the women like him because he's creepy around them. One even told him he was creeping her out. He looked down on me, I guess because he could drop me in the hills. (He's probably 140 pounds). Then last year he had a crash and he's different now. He actually speaks to me as if we are friends and seems less creepy around women.
I don't really care, I'm not going to dinner with him, but it's interesting that he has morphed a little.
There is another guy who doesn't talk as much, but can be quite annoying when he does talk. None of the women like him because he's creepy around them. One even told him he was creeping her out. He looked down on me, I guess because he could drop me in the hills. (He's probably 140 pounds). Then last year he had a crash and he's different now. He actually speaks to me as if we are friends and seems less creepy around women.
I don't really care, I'm not going to dinner with him, but it's interesting that he has morphed a little.
Stories like that remind me how much I like riding with a small, neighborhood, club.
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Sounds like my BIL. He was there this weekend. He has no grasp of the concept of "Companionable Silence". First thing in the morning, all most of us want to do is relax, suck down our caffeinated beverage of choice, and stare out at the back yard. Then he comes in and starts talking.
And talking.
And talking.
And talking.
And talking.
#4322
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So, as kind of a coda for our get-together at The Ancestral Home, one of my sisters had a seizure at the Philadephia airport, waiting for their flight back to Florida, and has been in the hospital since, while they figure out why. Initial observations were very high BP, and very high blood sugar, and now she's been diagnose with previously undiagnosed hypertension and diabetes. She lost 50# in the last 2 years, mostly diet, but now I'm wondering whether the diabetes was part of it, too. She's just a couple years older than me. I'm a little curious how you get to that point undiagnosed, unless you've been avoiding doctors.
#4323
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CAT scans and MRIs showed nothing ("They scanned your brain and found nothing?"), but the EEG made them put her on antiseizure meds.
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#4324
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Yes, I've seen the results of TBI personality changes but I don't think that was the case here. He hasn't been riding very long, maybe 5 years, and I think he got that invincible feeling. "Hey, I joined this club and I can ride with the fast guys". Crashing and getting injured might have brought him back to earth a little. He's almost as old as I am, so there's that.
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