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Old 04-16-08 | 02:33 PM
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Can't stop pedaling
Is there something wrong with my bike?
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Old 04-16-08 | 02:34 PM
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Old 04-16-08 | 02:38 PM
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Old 04-16-08 | 02:41 PM
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Old 04-16-08 | 03:20 PM
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In Russia, bike pedals you!
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Old 04-16-08 | 06:20 PM
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Maybe it needs to be fixed.
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Old 04-16-08 | 06:52 PM
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Is there something wrong with my bike?


if its not fixed it might be broken.
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Old 04-16-08 | 06:54 PM
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ficks gear is hard
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Old 04-16-08 | 07:29 PM
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Sounds like your freewheel is all gummed up.
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Old 04-16-08 | 08:36 PM
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Old 04-16-08 | 08:42 PM
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i bought my bike at a garage sale. my neighbor mumbled something about 'tarck' and sent me on my way. it was all cool and fine until i crashed it the next block, got thrown over the bars somehow!! from then on it was never the same. the pedals just kept going and going and wouldn't stop!! i took it to the shop to get fixed but they told me it was already fixed and there was nothing to be done about it
so i tried sellin it on craigslist but the guy that wanted to buy it arrived with ten other dudes and they rode off with it!! jokes on them though, they took a broken bike!
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Old 04-16-08 | 09:45 PM
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if you are going over the bars too often remove the front brake. those things are killers.
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Old 04-16-08 | 10:02 PM
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Or remove them bars, so you don't fly over them.
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Old 04-16-08 | 10:06 PM
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Originally Posted by andre nickatina
i bought my bike at a garage sale. my neighbor mumbled something about 'tarck' and sent me on my way. it was all cool and fine until i crashed it the next block, got thrown over the bars somehow!! from then on it was never the same. the pedals just kept going and going and wouldn't stop!! i took it to the shop to get fixed but they told me it was already fixed and there was nothing to be done about it
so i tried sellin it on craigslist but the guy that wanted to buy it arrived with ten other dudes and they rode off with it!! jokes on them though, they took a broken bike!
good one.
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Old 04-16-08 | 10:25 PM
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wait, i think you have a fixed gear style bicycle.
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Old 04-16-08 | 10:33 PM
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Or remove them bars, so you don't fly over them.
An alternate strategy is to throw yourself at the ground and intentionally miss.
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Old 04-16-08 | 10:41 PM
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Old 04-17-08 | 12:38 PM
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Originally Posted by andre nickatina
i bought my bike at a garage sale. my neighbor mumbled something about 'tarck' and sent me on my way. it was all cool and fine until i crashed it the next block, got thrown over the bars somehow!! from then on it was never the same. the pedals just kept going and going and wouldn't stop!! i took it to the shop to get fixed but they told me it was already fixed and there was nothing to be done about it
so i tried sellin it on craigslist but the guy that wanted to buy it arrived with ten other dudes and they rode off with it!! jokes on them though, they took a broken bike!
this wins.
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Old 04-17-08 | 02:53 PM
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bike's good, rider's broken
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Old 04-17-08 | 04:34 PM
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Originally Posted by HopliteGrad
An alternate strategy is to throw yourself at the ground and intentionally miss.
Hahaha, it's not to obscure don't worry.
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Old 04-17-08 | 04:42 PM
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Originally Posted by HopliteGrad
An alternate strategy is to throw yourself at the ground and intentionally miss.
Inconthievable!!
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Old 04-17-08 | 05:01 PM
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Originally Posted by artblur@artblur
this wins.
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Old 04-17-08 | 05:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Rusty Piton
In Russia, bike pedals you!
NEW ****ING QUOTE AHHH!
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Old 04-17-08 | 05:21 PM
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Old 04-18-08 | 02:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Rusty Piton
In Russia, bike pedals you!
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i jam my thumbs up and back into the tubes. this way i can point my fingers straight out in front to split the wind and attain an even more aero profile, and the usual fixed gear - zen - connectedness feeling through the drivetrain is multiplied ten fold because my thumbs become one with the tubing.
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