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Road Cycling “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” -- Ernest Hemingway

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Old 11-12-20, 11:54 AM
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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
So no gable end over the door, I assume. Throw a weighted line over the roof, use it to lead in a less visible line, e.g., monofilament if you want, and secure to something in back. Hang from that.

thought about this but it will hang on the gutter and not be flush to the side of the house.
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Old 11-12-20, 11:56 AM
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Originally Posted by Mojo31
I've driven it once. Spent about a half day making laps. Never on a bike though. Awesome track.
Turn 1 can DIAF for bikes though.
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Originally Posted by abshipp
For reference see post #486.
Just pointing out that this is the proper way to cite a post, by linking to it. Some people haven't figured that out.
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Old 11-12-20, 12:00 PM
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Originally Posted by rjones28
Probably because that's not a thing anymore.
I missed the first wave. So I get a second chance.
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
thought about this but it will hang on the gutter and not be flush to the side of the house.
You can probably pass something fine behind the gutter or make a small passage with a tool.
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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
You can probably pass something fine behind the gutter.

This is why your the doctor and I am not. I will take a look at this when I get home.
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Old 11-12-20, 12:38 PM
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Siding always has a wood frame behind it. I use matching coloUr coffee cup hooks on the high bits, which makes hanging lights and other paraphernalia quite easy. They're nearly invisible the rest of the year.
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
This is why your the doctor and I am not. I will take a look at this when I get home.
You know what they say about doctors and airplanes.
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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
You know what they say about doctors and airplanes.
Be careful with your V35?
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Be careful with your V35?
Doctors fly cirrus’s now, Parachutes make them safer for the doctors and for the people on the ground.
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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
You know what they say about doctors and airplanes.
What do they say?
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Originally Posted by datlas
What do they say?
They overestimate their skill and knowledge and die a lot.
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Originally Posted by big john
A friend and I cut weeds for people in the 60s. Hard work on hillsides in the heat but it was the first paper money I ever had. I bought some record albums and spent the rest on cigarettes and junk food.
I only worked long enough to pay for my HS letter jacket. Which I still have and still (kind of) fits.

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Old 11-12-20, 01:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Bah Humbug
Turn 1 can DIAF for bikes though.
On a bike, I'd imagine the straight leading to the turn could as well.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Did they pay in $1 bills?
Probably not. They all worked for DuPont.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
Which I still have and still (kind of) fits.
Same (not that jacket). And it does fit as I am roughly the same size as I was then.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
Probably not. They all worked for DuPont.
Were DuPont employees not allowed to carry $1 bills?
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Originally Posted by abshipp
Be careful with your V35?
Backed in the early-80s, I interned for a lawyer who represented insurance companies in cases involving the crashes of private planes. I actually wrote a fair number of appeal briefs in those cases. Most of them involved VFR pilots heading out with friends or family for a trip during IFR conditions. They almost all involved witnesses on the ground seeing the plane coming out of a cloud pointed to the ground and in a spiral. They often involved the Bonanzas. It wasn't uncommon to hear someone in the office say that another doctor killer case was coming in.
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Originally Posted by Mojo31
On a bike, I'd imagine the straight leading to the turn could as well.
I've ridden my bike at Watkins Glen. Toe of The Boot is an exciting transition.

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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
They overestimate their skill and knowledge and die a lot.
I hope that does not extend to doctors and bicycles.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Same (not that jacket). And it does fit as I am roughly the same size as I was then.
All of the buttons button, but it's more roomy when I'm at the upper end of my fitness continuum.
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Originally Posted by datlas
I hope that does not extend to doctors and bicycles.
Don't worry. I think you can only die the one time.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
All of the buttons button, but it's more roomy when I'm at the upper end of my fitness continuum.
It's unlikely it will ever fit the way it did when I was in HS. I was about 130 pounds back then. My fighting weight these days in something like 170.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Were DuPont employees not allowed to carry $1 bills?
Maybe. I think I charged $10 or $20 bucks, depending on whether I bagged the clippings. No need for singles.
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Originally Posted by rjones28
I've ridden my bike at Watkins Glen. Toe of The Boot is an exciting transition.
Even at 10 mph?
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