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Old July 14th 09, 11:38 PM posted to rec.bicycles.misc
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I hear that the TdF is banning radios next year. What do you guys
think of this?

At first, I thought it was a terrible idea. However, cycling is a
technologically pure, and banning radios is a way to keep this
purity.

Of course you can use that logic to propose bans on certain bicycles,
food supplements, and lycra.

Cycling is evolving - thank God. Instead of fighting it, we should
just embrace it...

Cullen
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Old July 15th 09, 05:27 AM posted to rec.bicycles.misc
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On Jul 14, 6:38*pm, " wrote:
I hear that the TdF is banning radios next year. What do you guys
think of this?

At first, I thought it was a terrible idea. However, cycling is a
technologically pure, and banning radios is a way to keep this
purity.

Of course you can use that logic to propose bans on certain bicycles,
food supplements, and lycra.

Cycling is evolving - thank God. Instead of fighting it, we should
just embrace it...


Go back to the 1920s rule: if you start a stage with a piece of
equipment,
you must finish the stage with that piece of equipment (including
punctured
tyres, empty water bottles, and even the water that was originally in
those
bottles ("don't let 'em see you sweat" as more than just advice)).
Obviously
you can change bicycles, but you have to carry the previous one with
you
regardless. Also team cars are filled with feral squirrels which have
been
stored in gunny sacks inside of tumble driers to rile 'em up. And
Bobroll
gets to choose one rider to tow him for the stage in a burly. With as
many
bottles of sham-pag-knee has he wants.
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Old July 15th 09, 08:57 AM posted to rec.bicycles.misc
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Norman wrote:
stored in gunny sacks inside of tumble driers to rile 'em up. And
Bobroll
gets to choose one rider to tow him for the stage in a burly. With as
many
bottles of sham-pag-knee has he wants.


On Sunday he mentioned Cain and Abel getting kicked out of the Garden of
Eden.

Who's idea was it to attach a mic to his mug?
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Old July 16th 09, 12:53 AM posted to rec.bicycles.misc
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Norman wrote:

Go back to the 1920s rule: if you start a stage with a piece of
equipment,
you must finish the stage with that piece of equipment (including
punctured
tyres, empty water bottles, and even the water that was originally
in
those
bottles ("don't let 'em see you sweat" as more than just advice)).
Obviously
you can change bicycles, but you have to carry the previous one
with
you
regardless.


Everybody has to ride identical Roadmaster bicycles, like in
"Breaking Away".

--
Mike Kruger
"The experts -- What do they know?" - Richard J. Daley


 




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