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Post by gpickle on Dec 31, 2005 17:27:44 GMT -5
This is it, my last post of 2005.
I was out riding gravel today with "the group" and out west of Oxford we came upon a couple of HAPPY dogs and they were trotting down the road ahead of us with their cute little doggie tails wagging and we figured they were going to chase us but they did not and when we got right up next to them we could see that one of them was carrying a deer head and it looked like the other one really wanted to carry the deer head so we rolled on by and they did not even glance at us.
Ahh, deer heads.....
gpickle
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Post by gpickle on Feb 5, 2006 20:19:58 GMT -5
Today I rode my first English century of the year and my first double metric century of the year, too! I think. I do not have a cyclocomputer but I have a rough idea how far it is from the Capitol City to the Old Capitol City and I got lost for good measure so extra miles (and kilometers) were abundant. I did get the temperatures thanks to the wonders of modern banking so I can assure you that it was 14 F when I left DM and 27 F when I arrived in IC. All of this matters little to you I am quite sure, but keep reading, there is more to this post than pickle-boasting!
While I was enjoying my lunch of fattening greasy salty foods in Montezuma I got to witness the slice of Americana that is a convenience store. The Clerk was an especially happy woman wearing a shirt that said Smile! or something like that. She was chatting with all the customers, taking their money and giving back change and advice. Motorist after motorist spent $30.00 or therabouts. Much talk about the super bowl, she favored the steelers. One feller wearing blaze orange came in to get a tin of chaw and she commented on the fact that he had just bought a tin the day before. He responded that one a day would keep the doctor away. I was done and getting up to leave when she turned her cheery eyes on me. She asked where I had ridden from, I said Des Moines. She asked if I was headed back and I said no, heading to Iowa City. She said I was crazy. I was the only customer she had deemed crazy in the 15 minutes I was there. Montezuma sanity is 30.00 of texas tea and a tin a day, I guess.
gpickle(Turning 100! Send Presents!)
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Post by the weiner posse on Feb 5, 2006 20:51:36 GMT -5
wonderful pickle... just wonderful...
a double metric would be 124 miles... i'm sure you clocked that much in...!
and on a cold day too at that...my digits wouldn't have lasted an hour...
hopefully we won't see you in a few weeks down at the petrol station with a big ol' lump in your lower cheek pumping gas into your lifted suv due to a case of montezuma's revenge...!
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Post by 1eftcoastgrave1 on Feb 6, 2006 1:53:54 GMT -5
Doh!! you beat me to the punch in the century game for 2006. way to go pickle. for some reason i thought a metric double was 162 english. maybe i need to check my math again. .............no i was wrong. it is 124.274 miles. way to bust it out steve.
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themostlyreverend
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Post by themostlyreverend on Feb 6, 2006 8:02:31 GMT -5
glad to hear you made it home, g. you NEVER CALL ME ANYMORE!! nice story, by the by. sorry i wasn't here earlier. i did my first century about three weekends ago. but it's not official, i guess.
who smote me--[curiously]--i remain?
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Post by cootie on Feb 6, 2006 22:25:58 GMT -5
Well, I know who did it, but I'm not gonna tell... but I will exalt you to get you out of debt.
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Post by themostlyreverend on Feb 6, 2006 22:56:35 GMT -5
i'll try this, even though i don't really get the hoo-rippee thing. saturday while my friend gpick and i were riding the rocks outside capitol city we saw a cute little fox scamper across the road and up the fence row. nice...
who's ripley?
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Post by helpingfrendlybook on Feb 9, 2006 23:35:12 GMT -5
my first hoo-rippee post.
as i was trackstanding a stoplight this afternoon, in the busyness of the minutes right before 5, i happened to look over and notice that a middle-aged gal in the car next to me was smiling at me. she was super excited at seeing this kid standing there doing this odd trick on his bicycle. she gave me a nice thumbs up and pointed down at my bike, to which i happily smiled and waved back. she was all sorts of excited, and made sure to point me out to her driver. it was nice. that gal probably doesn't know it, but she made my day.
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Post by david on Feb 10, 2006 0:52:40 GMT -5
Nice story, helpingfrendlybook! Must be a wave of trackstand appreciation somehow beginning to sweep the area. A fellow bus driver was ecstatically congratulating me on one of mine lately; as the weiner posse pointed out motorists rarely show interest. Isn't it gratifying when they do? I love showing off at stoplights -- and for me that's just what I'm doing, too! But also to demonstrate increased credibility as a road user -- ultimate control of vehicle, no inelegant foot-downs (though I occasionally experience inelegant front-wheel-wrangling penultimate-control choppiness).
Thanks for the post. You brightened my day yourself outside of Jimmy John's today, helpingfrendlybook (silly computer -- I second that)!
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Post by the weiner posse on Feb 10, 2006 10:30:41 GMT -5
I love showing off at stoplights -- and for me that's just what I'm doing, too! don't forget the functionality of the trackstand... i can take off a lot faster from a trackstand than i could from if i were to put my foot down and wait for a light to change... it's that nice little moment of leaning back and then throwing my weight forward as i pedal onward from a standstill...
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Post by 1eftcoastgrave1 on Feb 10, 2006 17:39:21 GMT -5
i can't help but point out the murphy's law of trackstand and loosing your balance RIGHT before the light changes. DOH!!! also when on a group ride it is proper etiquite to only have one person trackstanding per stoplight.
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Post by the weiner posse on Feb 10, 2006 20:37:16 GMT -5
also when on a group ride it is proper etiquite to only have one person trackstanding per stoplight. oooh...how come...?
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Post by 1eftcoastgrave1 on Feb 10, 2006 22:23:09 GMT -5
you can't have too many people showing off their mad skill at every intersection. (apperently it isn't enough to have a large group of men with shaved legs wearing bright skin tight clothing riding those silly bicycles, they still need more attention.)
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Post by david on Feb 10, 2006 22:59:34 GMT -5
the real reason? so people aren't interfering with others' space if choppiness occurs? I'd still trackstand even if I weren't showing off as well. Posse says it well, I outlined a couple things, trackstanding is one hoo-rippee aspect of bicycling for me: when's the last time you saw someone having that much fun driving a car?
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Post by Skinny on Feb 11, 2006 9:24:13 GMT -5
You know, I'll sit at lights and track stand with delight all the time, but double metric century? My longest ride this year was 15 miles, and that was a gravel race.
I still ride every day, but just never get those long ones in, I did a 40 minute loop home from work with my team mate the other day and was pleased as punch. Funny, but my riding schedule doesn't change all year, cold or heat included, only racing adds extra miles for me.
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