Oh! Bicycle Repair Man! How can I ever repay you!
Oh, you don't need to guv, it's all right, it's all in a day's work for . . . Bicycle Repair Man!
Posted on 08/02/2019 1:38:36 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Welcome to the first Bicycle Thread, thread. A monthly PING List for bicycle enthusiasts to share experiences, information and ideas.
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Very sorry about your injuries Tennessee Conservative but really admire what you have posted here.
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I been wanting to ride more too. I started riding(other than childhood and teens) a few years ago and have yet to do so at night. So I been wanting to do that. Be like night fighter aircraft during WW2.
Retired Firefighter
Specialized Roubaix SL4
Ultegra components
Ride 40 miles 3x week
Swim 2000 yds 3 times week
Drink beer 7 days week
Fixing bikes is definitely Godly.
Think of all the happiness you have spread.
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Sometimes things can change. In one way or another. Feel free to share memories of bicycling if you like.
Wow!
That’s a shed load of bicycles!
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Oh! Bicycle Repair Man! How can I ever repay you!
Oh, you don't need to guv, it's all right, it's all in a day's work for . . . Bicycle Repair Man!
+1
Interesting idea for a thread.
Here’s an SF classic short story called The Bicycle Repairman.
https://textfiles.meulie.net/russian/cyberlib.narod.ru/lib/sterling/velo_eng.html
Love to read about it.
If I’m lucky one day I will have one.
Or I’ll sit around sad wishing I had one.
Back in my late 20’s to mid 30’s I would ride my Cannondale touring bike 3-4 times a week for 40 miles per trip. Great way to unwind and “find my happy place”. Longest trip I took was a 90 miler from my house in Bergen County, NJ to Bear Mountain and back one fine Fourth of July. Ride just about killed me except I remember the rush I got as I finished the ride and rode up to my house.
I was asleep by 8:30 that evening.
Best wishes on your century tomorrow.
That’s way above my skill level.
I can do 40 miles but then, that’s it.
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sphinx!
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Always enjoyed reading your well thought-out posts in the soccer ping list threads.
You are off to a great start here.
Really good stuff.
I think there are definitely a lot of topics that would bring people closer on FR.
And there are some like cooking and gardening and poetry.
Now we have bicycling, once again.
I’d like to see more.
LoL!
Reminds me of the tourists beer rides I see here.
Eight people cycling a bar around while drinking beer.
You have great fortitude!
Thanks for the good wishes. And 40 is nothing to sneeze at.
I’m 60 but I ride with a pack of 25 year olds on 5 k$ bikes pretty often. They say “keep up old man or go home!”
It just motivates me to stay right with them then at the end when theyre tired and sucking down gu packs I take the lead and and finish. I always turn my hand back to them and give them a one finger salute.
My old bicycle slips in gears 3 and 5. One might think but you still have gears 1, 2, 4, 6 and 7.
Yes but there comes a time when I really need gear 3 or 5.
And it’s always when I am farthest from home.
And I think, this is where the chain breaks.
One day it will break.
I should look into how to fix that.
I ride my old bike when I need to lock and leave it.
Thank you,
bookmarked.
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