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The Bicycle Thread - September 2019
September 2, 2019
| The Bicycle Thread
Posted on 09/01/2019 11:12:10 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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In the last 7 days I’ve ridden 120 miles and swam 8000+ yards. That’s about 5 miles swimming. Longest ride was 40 miles after a mile swim..
Taking off a couple days to let my 60 year old body catch up. Ha!
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09/04/2019 7:21:20 AM PDT
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(Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
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4.9 miles today,
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I don’t know what the story is with this hunk of “LOVE” (welded plates) is about.
Was moved from the other end of the building.
The building is a landmark warehouse that used to take imports from Africa.
Now it’s been turned into condos. It is right on the water so people living there dock their boats to it.
Later, I got my new bicycle’s flat tire fixed. :)
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Later, I got my new bicycle’s flat tire fixed. :)
Was 18 euros so I gave him 20.
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THE WORK OF THE SOLDIER CYCLIST
When the war is over the tales our cyclist warriors have to tell will be amongst the most inspiring in the annals of this stupendous conflict. The reasons of the success of the soldier-cyclist are not far to seek. In the fist place it must be realised that his mount, unlike that of the cavalryman, is silent in progress. This gives him an enormous advantage over his noisy foe, whose horse betrays his presence even when galloping over grassland. In short, the cyclist can hear and not be heard. He can approach speedily and noiselessly, and without warning can attack the enemy, who, all unconscious of his presence, often falls an easy prey.
But silence is by no means the cyclist’s sole advantage. He has a good turn of speed, which is a factor useful alike in attack and retreat. A cyclist in warfare is really a mounted infantryman, and, generally speaking, he is superior in point of speed to the heavily-accoutred cavalryman, while, of course, the ordinary infantryman is snail-like by comparison. Should his attack fail for the time being, or receive an unexpected or momentary check, the cyclist can easily beat a retreat, and by a circuitous route come upon his foe again at another point, where, perhaps, he is least expected. Thus he can be said to possess to a marked degree the power to ‘cut and come again’ which faculty is eminently useful in war.
Again, the ability to take cover often spells the difference between victory and defeat, and here the cyclist scores distinctly. He has but to lay his mount down flat upon the ground and it is practically invisible.
– Cycling Magazine, 8th October, 1914
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Today: 18.19 miles. What’s funny about this picture is there are many people sitting and laying on the grass but two guys drinking beers were throwing a a frisbee from the right and left to each other. Meanwhile women with babies are on the grass near them and even an old man in a wheelchair. Nothing bad happened (they were actually good) thankfully, while I ate a banana. If it were me the old man would be knocked backwards and angry moms would be chasing me down the street.
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I have a lot of pictures because I went urban exploring but I won’t post all of them because it is too many and you only want to see The Best.
Was a very nice sunny day.
A little too sunny for my camera so some pictures I enhanced to tone down the brightness and haze which made some colors more vibrant.
I also cropped some pictures so the art can be seen better, which eliminates sense of scale. Some paintings are much larger than they look.
But first I rode through the park and woods,
I saw them building the middle section and I thought it might be for a band making a music video (which I seen done a couple of years ago) but instead they parked two house-boats to it:
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You can see this large tree in the woods is damaged:
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This is the other side:
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This was the first time I was on this path in the woods, so I took a closer look at the tree:
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After I took the picture it struck me that this tree is badly damaged and could fall on me.
I suddenly got a little panicked and when I turned to get my bicycle there was a loud roar of a noise that scared the crap out of me.
I thought the tree was falling and looked which way to jump.
Turned out the noise was a chainsaw not so far away.
I got on my bicycle still alarmed with my adrenaline pumping.
I was zipping through the woods like the wind when there was a class of small children ahead of me.
That trail is not wide so I rode into the woods, through the bushes, thick cover of fallen leaves, soft dirt, fallen branches, etc, like it was nothing and got ahead of them and back on the trail.
They won’t see a display like that again!
I was out of the woods quick and will not take that path in the future.
There are plenty of other ways to go.
At where I call the graffiti wall:
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I used to visit here, by “Molecule Man” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecule_Man_(sculpture)).
It’s a nice place where there is more graffiti constantly going up.
But then they started construction and gated the area off and I wasn’t into climbing gates.
But now they are mostly done and it opened up again.
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I just got a pop-up window saying my device is going to restart at some point, to update.
Consider this Part 1 with Part 2 coming tomorrow.
Good night!
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