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I'm most irritated by the fact that these riders are typically riding on very busy main roads, despite there being nice, long, perfectly good riding roads all throughout the same area. They just choose to be all "look at me!" and ride in the middle of the goddamn main highway, clogging up hundreds or thousands of cars.

Some people juggle geese.

devin mac

01-30-2012 09:48 AM

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I have occasionally been involved in rather interesting conversations with other cyclists, however that's more to do with the fact that they, being spandex-clad Lance Armstrong wannabees, felt that I was somehow cheating as I passed them and their carbon-fiber bikes while going up a steep hill on my own cheap, steel-framed mountain bike with a basket full of groceries in the back, simply because I happened to have the foresight to equip my bike with a 48 volt electric assist system and they didn't.

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y8s	01-30-2012 10:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Joe Perez (Post 828059)

And that's really what makes it funny- we're both gunning it up the hill, pedaling like hell, I just happen to be passing the spandex-clad folks on their $5k bikes while wearing ratty shorts and peddling a cheap, department-store mountain bike with fatty tires and a milk crate on the back.

I bet your interesting conversations from the lance nutstrong crowd stem from the fact that they are not interested in purchasing your aesthetically challenged electric conveyance.

hustler

01-30-2012 10:29 AM

I love the cyclist uniform, lol. "This is my special outfit that I wear so everyone knows who to wedgie."

Joe Perez

01-30-2012 12:06 PM

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Originally Posted by mgeoffriau (Post 828105)

Wreckless? Peddle?

I'm guessing you guys didn't win any spelling bees in elementary school.

I'm surprised I was that coherent, given how much I'd had to drink.

viperormiata

01-30-2012 05:51 PM

MT bro's, I need some ideas.

I bought a new CXracing ebay special intercooler. It's surprisingly decent and the dimensions are correct, however, the endtanks are 2" inlet/outlet and not 2.5" as advertised.

Option 1) send it back and wait gawd knows how long to see if they can get it right a second time.

Option 2) take intercooler to local fab guy and have him weld on new inlet/outlet pieces from scrap aluminum pipe I have in my garage.

gearhead_318

01-30-2012 06:01 PM

How bad do you need it? If it can wait I'd send it back and call and bitch if it's taking too long to get the right one back.

viperormiata

01-30-2012 06:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Gearhead_318 (Post 828454)

How bad do you need it? If it can wait I'd send it back and call and bitch if it's taking too long to get the right one back.

You know I think you're right. I sent them an email saying I'm sending it back tomorrow. No sense in hacking it up and being at the mercy of what the fabricator feels like he should charge me.

More importantly, I measured it against the car and realized that I have more room than I thought (even with the a/c) and the next step up in size is only 13 bucks more.

gearhead_318

01-30-2012 09:42 PM

$5 album sale on amazon next two days.

pusha

01-30-2012 11:22 PM

pay for music? what?

I use www.realfrat.com

gearhead_318

01-30-2012 11:31 PM

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Originally Posted by pusha (Post 828573)

pay for music? what?

I use www.realfrat.com

Do the sh*tfaced freshmen chicks like that?