Posted on 02/01/2024 10:00:54 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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I’ve lost far more skin MTBing than road riding. If you’re not crashing now and again, you’re not riding fast enough. Either that or your trails are too tame.
Plus, it’s more efficient to do aerobic training on the road, even if you’re an MTBer. MTB pros tend to do 70-80% of their training on the road.
I had never considered that correlation but it makes sense. Cyclists is one of the two groups of people I have been associated with (in connection with some sort of outdoors or recreational activity) that I always have found notably congenial and accommodating. The other group is scuba divers. With both groups it’s like they put aside all differences and shelve the contentious issues (politics and whatnot) and just get on with what it was that brought them all together.
And if that weren’t the case, I’d probably have never got so “in” to cycling, because they’re mostly a bunch of leftys. But nobody wears their politics on their sleeve at cycling events. Kinda like the way “bikers” take off their “cuts” at events like Sturgis and Speed Week Daytona. It reduces the gunplay. In the end it’s all good because more cyclists increases the economy of scale of cycling products, and the rain falls on both the conservative and the Marxist.
Plus, cyclists as a group tend to be better educated (even those who don’t have college tend to be brighter) and more affluent.
Better jobs = nicer homes = higher property taxes = better infrastructure.
So more cyclists means more accommodating folk and better roads. Plus, cagers will tend to be more considerate of cyclists if they know someone who rides. And the more cyclists in a community, the more likely a non-cyclist is to know one of them.
Of course they’re not all so nice. I rubbed elbows with that Lance Pharmstrong fella a bunch of times at the Tour DuPont (’93-’96). YUGE anal sphincter. That was before cnacer, before he had a cause to champion to give him a reason to tone down his natural assholeishness.
Which is probably why he kept George Hincappie as his lieutenant all those years, for balance. I never yet met a nicer guy than GQ Georgie.
Lol! Now THAT’s funny!
And your point is?. . .
That besides posting your cryptic pic of offensive homosexuals on a bike thread without explanation being seen as a slight against bike riding, comparing the two illustrates the contrast.
The question is, "And your point is?"
It got warmer and look at what people are doing right away.
And on a Thursday.
This area is great though, probably my favorite.
Near The Wall, Arena, Mall, Clubs, Hotels, everything good.
I turn my music off and by the time I am through I am laughing just from all the laughter.
Bonus puzzle points:
One book is for me. One book is for my wife. One book is for our daughter. One book is for all.
Guess which book is for who.
First correct reply wins a prize of anything they wish to gift to themselves as a prize.
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