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hube1236

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Anyone here mountain bike / race?

I race beginner/ sport/ clydesdale depending on where I am in my 20# weight swing.

I race a Cannondale Hardtail. I am getting ready to finally upgrade to a nine speed.

I wish I was light enough to race road- or had the time to train for it.

Any else?
 
Yup. I ride both mountain and road. Every once in a while I enter a MTB race. I usually ride beginner or sport, depending on the competition.

I ride an old, crappy Trek mountain bike (full rigid, about 30#) or a Cannondale 3.0 road bike (perfect in every way.) I've been looking at buying a new hardtail when I graduate.

So, how does one conceal a pistol in spandex tights?? :D

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"TV what do I see, tell me who to believe, what's the use of autonomy when a button does it all??" - Incubus, Idiot Box
 
Ride an older GT hardtail, (GT all the way baby!) 25<GT<30#.

I do not wear spandex.

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God, Guns and Guts made this country a great country!

oberkommando sez:
"We lost the first and third and now they are after the Second!(no pun intended)"

[This message has been edited by KaMaKaZe (edited August 29, 2000).]
 
on my road bike is the only time I wear a fanny pack.. a glock 26 plus one mag. I only have a road bike. I don't like falling off a bike so I don't ride a mt bike. just got back from a 20 mile recovery ride.
 
Used to race road and mountain, now just ride for fitness and pleasure. I do NOT miss riding for an hour in a 39 x 23 training for mountainous road races, especially at 6/2" and a skin and bones 185 lbs. back then. Now I'm 215 lbs. and I avoid mountains altogether!

I will say that as hard as RR racing was, MB racing is more difficult. I remember entering my first and the max. distance available was 16 miles. My buddy and I were Cat 3 RR'ers so 16 miles sounded like nothing since we regularly 'trained' on MB's during the winter. Well, training was almost no preparation for MB racing. I have never been so tired in my life and my quads felt like cement afterwards. Lots of on and off the bike due to some funky, muddy terrain and neglible MB skills given the conditions. RR skills were easy in comparison. But it was all fun and now pleasure rides are, well, pleasureable. In any event, start slowly and enjoy it.

Marley...recovery rides. Now THOSE I liked...

Chris..

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I was thinking about a specialty holster that would attach to the front triangle. It would have to be nylon due to the sweat drippage. I really started thinking about carrying when out training last year; I was looping the Colorado Springs Airport. Some yahoo, jumped out of his van and started chasing me with a board: it was a particularly nasty stretch of construction and one could outrun the road bike believe it or not. I managed to clear the construction amid all of the "I am gonna kick your ass!" shouts from 10 feet behind me.

Then this year, a cyclist was killed in Denver (where guns are verbotten) by a road rage driver who shoot a cyclist in the chest.

The best feeling on the MTB is clearing an obstacle that always stumped you. The best feeling on the road is catching that car at the intersection that threw the beer bottle at you, shouted or honked the horn, or drove too close. People are cowards when their car is not moving.

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I ride a Marin Hardtail. Best MTB bikes made. Great feeling when you have your game and are riding like a wild man. I have the bruises to prove it. I ride mostly in a state forrest no roads and no cars. And I never ride alone.
Great sport right up there Kayaking
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by hube1236:
(snip)... The best feeling on the road is catching that car at the intersection that threw the beer bottle at you, shouted or honked the horn, or drove to close. People are cowards when their car is not moving.[/quote]
:D :D :D



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Hube..

Great point about catching up with those daring enough to throw something at you. I've been hit with; full unopened cans of beer, apples, pebbles etc. Even had a car drive right next to me while I was doing intervals and have a young lady reach out and slap my left butt cheek. As I was travelling at 35 mph on a flat stretch at the time I was none to pleased. Apparently no one considers they might actually cause a cyclist to turn into them by such actions. Nothing like running over someone to ruins everyone's day.

Only caught up to one person once, the one who through the apple. I just stared at them while they looked straight ahead. Pathetic.

Chris...
 
The best are the people (like the old lady's who are driving the jack'ed up trucks) who scream out the window thinks like, "Get the Fu&*^# off the road a$$Hodf!" Say nothing at the intersection, and then scream something as they are speeding away.

For all of the non-cyclist reading this, thinking that we are dangerous, uncaring slow road hogs; remember, we have as much right to the road as you do. As far as the cyclist who abuses his right to the road, they give us all a bad name.
 
I ride a Raleigh M-80 (97), have done mountain biking for fun, never for competition. Have broken left clavicle overtaking those hard but not impossible obstacles. Sadly there are not that many places to ride down here in the Rio Grande Valley.

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My Colt .45... Better to have and not need, than to need and not have.
 
Riding is suppose to be like the gun culture. It is something that you just do. And like eating and sleeping, if you don't ride, you just don't feel right. Like guns, if you don't carry, you feel naked. Been riding for over 20 years. Forty is fast on the horizon and can still red line at 200 BPM.

Rides are a Specialized cromoly S Work with XTR and Mongoose thermal plastic with XTR for the dirt. And a Fondriest with Campy Record 10 speed (10 in the rear, 20 total) for the road.

Robert
 
www.northshoremountainbiking.com
This is where I like to ride. Our Canuck gun laws suck, but I live 20 mins from the BEST technical trails in the known world: The Shore. Anyone want to come to Vancouver, we'll talk guns and go for a ride! I ride a Marin hardtail too, but it's got a 4" triple clamp up front and Magura racelines to stop with. Pig in the weight dep't, but a blast to bomb around city and Shore with.
Clead

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I ride mountain and road. Used to race MTB as a 200lb Clydesdale (all muscle, too!) but gave it up, why pay to ride in what feels like traffic on the L.A. freeway? Now, I ride and enjoy the sights, sounds, and wildlife. I do the majority of riding on the road and deal with folks who see me as another obstacle in their daily commute, (poor fools, they don't realize I'm not there trying to beat them to wherever it is they're going)I generally hammer the flats on the road and tackle the hills on the dirt. Bicycles are an excellent way to express your freedom, kinda like guns. There just happens to be a lot of people who don't understand either.
 
The replies that strike me are the statements about way of life or essence of being. I stairmastered to lose 150#, I ran to keep it off and completed a few marathons. I bike because I breathe. As long as I do one, I will need to do the other.
 
ChrisL: I'll have to add beer bottles, bats (as in someone swung a bat from a car), rear view mirrors, tobacco spit (yuck!), and some sort of a Ding Dong/Ring Ding. Not to mention the van that just about broke off my left leg.

Robert: Fondriest with Record 10spd, mmmmmmmm. :D :D

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It comes from an indomitable will. -- Mahatma Gandhi
 
Not *drum roll please* "The Shore"

Hey Clead.. ever get a chance to ride the Reaper before it got cut up?? I've seen numerous pictures of what the trail used to look like in Bike magazine, but I hear its no more..

You know anything??

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God, Guns and Guts made this country a great country!

oberkommando sez:
"We lost the first and third and now they are after the Second!(no pun intended)"

As seen in Atlanta's AJC, The Vent: "Let it be known that in this great metropolitan area that you might be able to get away with murder, but you'd better not bash a mailbox."
 
Not *drum roll please* "The Shore"

Hey Clead.. ever get a chance to ride the Reaper before it got cut up?? I've seen numerous pictures of what the trail used to look like in Bike magazine, but I hear its no more..

You know anything??

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God, Guns and Guts made this country a great country!

oberkommando sez:
"We lost the first and third and now they are after the Second!(no pun intended)"

As seen in Atlanta's AJC, The Vent: "Let it be known that in this great metropolitan area that you might be able to get away with murder, but you'd better not bash a mailbox."
 
The North Shore? You mean, the Holy See of mountain biking? Wow.

It's almost be worth putting up with Candian gun control to live near that... Almost.

Has Vancouver considered secession??

As to bike/car interactions - I've tangled with cages on two seperate occasions. Thankfully, I walked away both times. Never had anything thrown at me, though.

Later,
Chris
 
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