Just Ordered My New Bike
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I just ordered my new Trek 1200[^] yesterday :) Nothing really expensive, but I still think it's a good bike. (Direct Photo Link[^]) Now I can't wait to get it and try it out :)
- Anders My new photo website[^]
Hello I didn't have time to bike since I entered Med school:((. It's been about 5 years now. Nice bike BTW Regards:rose:
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Hello I didn't have time to bike since I entered Med school:((. It's been about 5 years now. Nice bike BTW Regards:rose:
Cycle to your lectures ;)
regards, Paul Watson Ireland FeedHenry needs you
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
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Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:
Mit viel Oktan und frei von Blei, eine Kraftstoff wie Benziiiiii
With much 'Oktan' and free from 'Blei', a 'craft stuff' such as Benzine (Petrol). What does it mean?
Truth is the subjection of reality to an individuals perception
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I dont mean to sound dismissive, but I have never found bicycles exciting. They are bloody tiring, slow, and totally 'un-extreme'. I cant see how anyone could get excited about one. Now, a new pair of skiis, thats a different matter. That I can get excited about!
Truth is the subjection of reality to an individuals perception
I've got a new "GI" for my jiu-jitsu training :-D (which is the (mostly white) suit you wear) Is that extreme enough. ;-) PS: I can recommand combat sports (preferably full contact) to couples. You can work out you're differences on the tatami. PPS: Yes, this really works :-D.
I've found a living worth working for, but I haven't found work worth living for. :beer:
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Nope, almost totally flat. Hmm, you only live a few hours drive away, you should take a trip here sometime ;)
- Anders My new photo website[^]
We'll lend you one for a fiver... ;P
Anna :rose: Currently working mostly on: Visual Lint :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.
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Cycle to your lectures ;)
regards, Paul Watson Ireland FeedHenry needs you
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
Hello Cairo is big. My faculty is 14Km away -same city though-. Besides, I'll end up listening to orthopaedic lectures on "cycle hit by a car" injuries given on me!!;P Regards:rose:
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Well then go place yourself near a corner at the bottom of a steep hill during a road race and come back and tell me the chaps aren't a bit nuts in the head. Better yet, get on a racer and go down a hill at 60+kph in a pack of riders with a long sweeping corner half-way down when all you are wearing is a few millimeters-thick cloth and some styrofoam stuck to your head. No leathers, no knee guards or full-face helmets, just you and lots of skin flaying tar. I've skiied and I have cycled and both can get pretty hairy.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland FeedHenry needs you
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
Indeed. I watched a race once that ran through the downtown area of this little village. The entire village was on the side of the hill, so the course was on a constant incline. I was at one of the lower corners. The road transitioned from asphalt to cobblestones for about 50 yards at the corner. These guys were doing 30-35 mph going through this corner, packed asses-to-elbows. On one of the last laps, the leaders had started to string out a little. The guy in second spilled the bike in the corner. Bike and rider rolled into the bales of straw placed strategically throughout the corner. I'm thinking we've got someone seriously maimed here; there's no way he'll walk again. The guy gets up, bleeding from a number of scrapes, picks up his bike (which no longer looked like a bicycle), and walks off the course :omg:.
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I just ordered my new Trek 1200[^] yesterday :) Nothing really expensive, but I still think it's a good bike. (Direct Photo Link[^]) Now I can't wait to get it and try it out :)
- Anders My new photo website[^]
:cool: I was looking at the 1000 recently, since the local shop doesn't stock 1200s(though could order one for me). They want to sell me a 1500 for a reasonable price, but I'm going to continue riding my hybrid a bit longer. Enjoy! Tell us how you like it after a few weeks of riding.
BW
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Hello Cairo is big. My faculty is 14Km away -same city though-. Besides, I'll end up listening to orthopaedic lectures on "cycle hit by a car" injuries given on me!!;P Regards:rose:
haha, well I cycle 22k everyday to work and back and have to endure all the co-workers making bets as to when I will have my first tractor meeting.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland FeedHenry needs you
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
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I just ordered my new Trek 1200[^] yesterday :) Nothing really expensive, but I still think it's a good bike. (Direct Photo Link[^]) Now I can't wait to get it and try it out :)
- Anders My new photo website[^]
Anders Molin wrote:
Trek 1200[^]
Very :cool:. I have the 1200's predecessor, a 1220 I bought back in 1999. It's been a great bike. My last ride, I rode it from my hometown (Xenia, Ohio, USA) to Cincinnati on the Little Miami Scenic Trail[^]. Round trip, it's a little over 100 miles. Unfortunately I didn't eat enough and 'bonked' at the end, so the last hour riding home was pretty miserable. The nice thing about Trek bikes: While they're not expensive, you get good quality components. I'm sure the elite cyclists around here (Mr. Maunder, for example) would :^), but for the amount of riding I do and my level of fitness, it's a perfect fit.
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I dont mean to sound dismissive, but I have never found bicycles exciting. They are bloody tiring, slow, and totally 'un-extreme'. I cant see how anyone could get excited about one. Now, a new pair of skiis, thats a different matter. That I can get excited about!
Truth is the subjection of reality to an individuals perception
fat_boy wrote:
bloody tiring, slow, and totally 'un-extreme'
Yeah, screaming down a descent at 80km/h is pretty boring, and cruising in a pack of a dozen cyclists at 45km/h drafting and getting carried along with the flow is pretty tiring. ;) For me, skis == boring. You stand on them, you slide down a hill, you stop and wait in line for 20 mins, then at the top of the hill you stand on the two planks again, slide down the hill... GOTO 10.
cheers, Chris Maunder
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I just ordered my new Trek 1200[^] yesterday :) Nothing really expensive, but I still think it's a good bike. (Direct Photo Link[^]) Now I can't wait to get it and try it out :)
- Anders My new photo website[^]
That's a good looking machine. Nice.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
FIX: A MFC program created in Visual Studio .NET 2003 unexpectedly quits when you try to close it[^]
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I just ordered my new Trek 1200[^] yesterday :) Nothing really expensive, but I still think it's a good bike. (Direct Photo Link[^]) Now I can't wait to get it and try it out :)
- Anders My new photo website[^]
Geez - bikes seem expensive now - my first purchase when I got a job after leaving university was a hand-built bike from my local frame builders[^]. And I don't remember it being particularly expensive (and with the money I was earning then, most things seemed expensive - we're talking 15 years ago? - and yes, I've still got the bike - my brother-in-law used it when he did the London Triathlon on August 5th). Obviously, I'm just getting old... Still - nice looking bike - I've always loved the way that road bikes can look like they're going really fast when standing still - I think it's got something to do with the photo being taken with a big gear selected!
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I dont mean to sound dismissive, but I have never found bicycles exciting. They are bloody tiring, slow, and totally 'un-extreme'. I cant see how anyone could get excited about one. Now, a new pair of skiis, thats a different matter. That I can get excited about!
Truth is the subjection of reality to an individuals perception
Hmmm pick up a mountain bike and come out for a ride around here some time. I can guarantee you at least 5 heart stopping moments per hour on trails 2 feet wide or less, screaming down hills in the forest, leaping off rocks, jumping over logs. It makes skiing look like a kindergarten slumber party.
