MasterBlaster
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Three speed is all I need. 
The Biking Thread
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PCTREE
Treehouser
Good to see you are getting out Andy!!
pantheraba
More biners!!!
Andy...you got my number. LOVE that bike...the high bars make it easier to sit up and coast and enjoy the ride...not leaning over like SpeedRacer all the time!
And the rack and basket....oh yeahhhh. (See below...how my grandsons and I mobilate)
And the rack and basket....oh yeahhhh. (See below...how my grandsons and I mobilate)
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PCTREE
Treehouser
That is just awesome!!!!
pantheraba
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sawinredneck
Treehouser
Very cool Gary! I'm still trying to get A J to learn to ride a bike, he just wants to putt around on his scooter! It drives me mad!
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Cool kiddie carrier!
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Great pics, good looking functional bike. I took the knobbys off my mountain bike and put on smoother tires, had it tuned up, good gracious it rides like a dream
Gary, are your leaves mostly gone down there, already??
Gary, are your leaves mostly gone down there, already??
sawinredneck
Treehouser
Lots of gears help in lots of ways, Butch, no you don't use most of them, but man are they sure nice when you need them!
Now if you really want something crazy, check out these, https://www.biketiresdirect.com/pro...m=base&adl=1&gclid=CI-I3OKD6sECFTKCMgodRkEAoQ Who'd have thunk of tire chains for a bicycle?
Now if you really want something crazy, check out these, https://www.biketiresdirect.com/pro...m=base&adl=1&gclid=CI-I3OKD6sECFTKCMgodRkEAoQ Who'd have thunk of tire chains for a bicycle?
pantheraba
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Nope...still quite a lot of leaves here...but they are changing nicely so they will be fluttering towards gravity soon.
pantheraba
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Yep, a few spins around the circle then helmets went on and cruised the 'hood. Normally helmets go on first.
pantheraba
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No offense at all...understand.
Thor's Hammer
Wolfish. Sometimes Bites.
Just started cycling today after 25 years. Im training for a triathalon in may.
managed 21km up and down hills.
managed 21km up and down hills.
No_Bivy
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CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Funny you bring that up.. I went to fall a 80 dead grey pine Friday since I needed the tops for just a tad more wood on the bon fire. I proceeded with my straw hat on.. I felt ridiculous. Hammering wedges. I was "Stephen! WTF MAN!?!!"
I lived, nothing broke out. Stoopid what we do in a rush.
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So true. I think we've all been there. Maybe we try to get to a point where if you gotta do something stoopid, rushing, without the right safety gear or whateva, then we just don't do it until we are doing it right. "Take time to save time" is a good notion, and taking 5 minutes, or coming back next weekend instead, someday that could save a boatload of hospital or cemetery time
Resolving to do it right, safe, or not at all can cause deeper feelings of power and control instead of fleeting feelings of frustration due to the immediate momentary loss of time.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
+1
pantheraba
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Well stated, Cory...especially that last line. The mark of a pro.
brendonv
Tree Hugger
Every time i see this thread on the list i think bikinis. Bikes are cool too though.
sawinredneck
Treehouser
I'm a bad man, I don't wear a helmet. Never had, we didn't have them back when I grew up, I took tons of spills and survived. I know, not the right mentality, but just the way I am.
I was adjusting my rack yesterday, I didn't like the basket up my butt when I was riding, anyway I saw some slime on the rim and around the valve stem. As I wiped it off, "Hisssssss". WTF? I look a little more and fiddle with it, next thing I know the metal part of the valve stem is in my hand and the tube is blowing out air! Never seen that before.
I was adjusting my rack yesterday, I didn't like the basket up my butt when I was riding, anyway I saw some slime on the rim and around the valve stem. As I wiped it off, "Hisssssss". WTF? I look a little more and fiddle with it, next thing I know the metal part of the valve stem is in my hand and the tube is blowing out air! Never seen that before.
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Thanks, Gary. I was thinking today about this conversation and concluded that the above is the ideal, perfect approach, always to be striven for, frequently achieved, but there will probably always be instances where the rushed approach will be taken, even if it ultimately makes poor sense. At that point, luck and fate take over.
woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
Riding a bike up hills after not doing so for twenty five years, isn't training yet. It's more like killing yourself. Training starts in a couple of weeks. Good going, Ed.
