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Offline Slateman

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Re: Cycling 2014 - In honor of MDS
« Reply #100 on: July 09, 2014, 10:58:47 am »
best 29er I can get for under $800?
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Re: Cycling 2014 - In honor of MDS
« Reply #101 on: July 09, 2014, 01:36:12 pm »
Where's Wiggo?

Sky really screwed the pooch with this.  What a $hitshow today. 
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Re: Cycling 2014 - In honor of MDS
« Reply #102 on: July 09, 2014, 01:36:32 pm »
what's a 29er?
Quote from: Slateman on July 09, 2014, 10:58:47 am
best 29er I can get for under $800?
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Re: Cycling 2014 - In honor of MDS
« Reply #103 on: July 09, 2014, 01:38:35 pm »
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Re: Cycling 2014 - In honor of MDS
« Reply #104 on: July 09, 2014, 01:42:23 pm »
Ah.  My most recent mountain bike is a Mongoose hardtail I got a few years ago to help use up some company wellness money at the end of the year.  Now it mostly serves as a drying rack.  The only good trails around here are in Rock Creek park and they are covered with horse crap. 
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Re: Cycling 2014 - In honor of MDS
« Reply #105 on: July 09, 2014, 01:58:26 pm »
Quote from: Ali the Baseball Cat on July 09, 2014, 01:42:23 pm
Ah.  My most recent mountain bike is a Mongoose hardtail I got a few years ago to help use up some company wellness money at the end of the year.  Now it mostly serves as a drying rack.  The only good trails around here are in Rock Creek park and they are covered with horse crap. 
I know plenty worth a drive. But beyond that, I'd swap out the tires for road tires and have a good road bike if I end up biking to work again.
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Re: Cycling 2014 - In honor of MDS
« Reply #106 on: July 09, 2014, 02:38:28 pm »
Quote from: Ali the Baseball Cat on July 09, 2014, 01:36:12 pm
Where's Wiggo?

Sky really screwed the pooch with this.  What a $hitshow today. 
Richie Porte to save the day!  Still have Nieve, Gerrant Thomas if he can climb, maybe another climber or two.  Wiggo is probably laughing, drinking in pub, and looking forward to signing with Orica.
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Re: Cycling 2014 - In honor of MDS
« Reply #107 on: July 09, 2014, 02:52:45 pm »
Oh, and Courtland Milloy can go eat a bowl of dicks. 
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Re: Cycling 2014 - In honor of MDS
« Reply #108 on: July 09, 2014, 04:33:05 pm »
Quote from: Ali the Baseball Cat on July 09, 2014, 02:52:45 pm
Oh, and Courtland Milloy can go eat a bowl of dicks. 
But how can he eat himself?
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Re: Cycling 2014 - In honor of MDS
« Reply #109 on: July 09, 2014, 04:44:24 pm »
Really, this is now so f'ng open it is going to be great.  You look at where everyone is placed after today, and the long list of < 3 minutes means amost anyone can attack.  Horner goes ahead of Costa, who covers Horner's move?  Vandenbroek is not being given enough credit as a contender, either.  Kwiatkowski is in good position, but OPQS is set up for flat stage sprints.
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Re: Cycling 2014 - In honor of MDS
« Reply #110 on: July 09, 2014, 05:02:41 pm »
Quote from: Ali the Baseball Cat on July 09, 2014, 02:52:45 pm
Oh, and Courtland Milloy can go eat a bowl of dicks.

He did make a few good points.  A conveyor system to take bikers up a hill?      :doh:
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Re: Cycling 2014 - In honor of MDS
« Reply #111 on: July 09, 2014, 06:58:59 pm »
Oh sure, but the rest of it was beating his same old tired gentrification/race drum.  His lazy generalisations are a pretty sad staple for a regular columnist in what presumes to be a major national daily paper. 
Quote from: tomterp on July 09, 2014, 05:02:41 pm
He did make a few good points.  A conveyor system to take bikers up a hill?      :doh:
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Re: Cycling 2014 - In honor of MDS
« Reply #112 on: July 09, 2014, 08:50:27 pm »
Sounds like he's ready to pull his pants up around his chest, move to Florida, and shake his fist at kids riding their contraptions too fast. Full-time.

Quote from: tomterp on July 09, 2014, 05:02:41 pm
He did make a few good points.  A conveyor system to take bikers up a hill?      :doh:
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Re: Cycling 2014 - In honor of MDS
« Reply #113 on: July 09, 2014, 08:51:40 pm »
What will they think of next... escalators at subway stations? ;)

Quote from: tomterp on July 09, 2014, 05:02:41 pm
He did make a few good points.  A conveyor system to take bikers up a hill?      :doh:
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Re: Cycling 2014 - In honor of MDS
« Reply #114 on: July 09, 2014, 08:56:14 pm »
Quote from: GburgNatsFan on July 09, 2014, 08:51:40 pm
What will they think of next... escalators at subway stations? ;)

Hey, I take the stairs when I can.    :P
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Re: Cycling 2014 - In honor of MDS
« Reply #115 on: July 09, 2014, 08:57:49 pm »
Quote from: Ali the Baseball Cat on July 09, 2014, 06:58:59 pm
Oh sure, but the rest of it was beating his same old tired gentrification/race drum.  His lazy generalisations are a pretty sad staple for a regular columnist in what presumes to be a major national daily paper.

Oh, I don't disagree with that general description.  Just like the Post will never bring itself to endorse a white candidate for mayor, no matter how gay, liberal, or drug addled they might be.
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Re: Cycling 2014 - In honor of MDS
« Reply #116 on: July 09, 2014, 09:20:45 pm »
Maybe we need Rob Ford...
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Re: Cycling 2014 - In honor of MDS
« Reply #117 on: July 10, 2014, 01:04:06 pm »
Quote from: Frau Mau on July 09, 2014, 09:20:45 pm
Maybe we need Rob Ford...
not liberal.
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Offline Ali the Baseball Cat

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Re: Cycling 2014 - In honor of MDS
« Reply #118 on: July 10, 2014, 11:22:54 pm »
They have traced the Western Front these past two days. I guess Verdun is on the tap tomorrow.  Pretty amazing job of pulling this off, TdF, well done.     

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Re: Cycling 2014 - In honor of MDS
« Reply #119 on: July 10, 2014, 11:47:57 pm »
Quote from: tomterp on July 09, 2014, 05:02:41 pm
He did make a few good points.  A conveyor system to take bikers up a hill?      :doh:

Sometimes the myopic little twits don't help themselves. They know bikes equals gentthinkrification and you can't help but bring up some freaking stupid bike escalator idea. No matter how unserious you are about it don't post it on your little twit blog. And stop organizing your hundred person bike rides. What is fun about riding a bike in a large non race group. It just advertises young white people doing stupid crap and annoying cars cuz they can. Note: I bike almost everywhere.

Also I don't even know why bikes equal gentrification. Their annoyance is mostly the "war on cars". Poor people don't have cars. The things the myopic little twits like should align with interests of the poorest people in the city. Mass transit and bikes.
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Re: Cycling 2014 - In honor of MDS
« Reply #120 on: July 11, 2014, 12:10:25 am »
Grandma has an inherent right to chug the coupe de ville once a week from it's anchorage in Ward 9 and sail it to the auld sod and park it all day on a bike lane because she's got a great hat. 
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Re: Cycling 2014 - In honor of MDS
« Reply #121 on: July 11, 2014, 02:29:28 pm »
There's been some interesting recent studies on the correlation between wealth and using a bicycle and walking for commuting purposes.  it is basically a graph like this, with income on the X axis and % using to commute on the y axis:

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Yes, as you get towards the wealthier end, people use bikes as an urban lifestyle choice, but the majority of bike use for commuting purposes is at the lower end of the income scale.  As soon as people can afford it, they switch to cars.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/05/09/the-demographic-paradox-of-who-bikes-and-walks-to-work/
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Re: Cycling 2014 - In honor of MDS
« Reply #122 on: July 11, 2014, 02:35:17 pm »
The incidence of obesity is the inverse as a function of wealth.  People in Darfur and Bethesda tend to be rail thin, with a lot of fatties in between.  Go figger.
Quote from: JCA-CrystalCity on July 11, 2014, 02:29:28 pm
There's been some interesting recent studies on the correlation between wealth and using a bicycle and walking for commuting purposes.  it is basically a graph like this, with income on the X axis and % using to commute on the y axis:

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Yes, as you get towards the wealthier end, people use bikes as an urban lifestyle choice, but the majority of bike use for commuting purposes is at the lower end of the income scale.  As soon as people can afford it, they switch to cars.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/05/09/the-demographic-paradox-of-who-bikes-and-walks-to-work/
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Re: Cycling 2014 - In honor of MDS
« Reply #123 on: July 13, 2014, 11:26:30 am »
Has one of the celebratory high fives with the coach in the car ever ended in disaster
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Re: Cycling 2014 - In honor of MDS
« Reply #124 on: July 13, 2014, 01:42:57 pm »
Quote from: Dave B on July 13, 2014, 11:26:30 am
Has one of the celebratory high fives with the coach in the car ever ended in disaster
was thinking the same thing.  That, and the fall zipping up your jersey and raising your arms.  I think we had a video up  thread of that fall.
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