Meeting cyclists via Usenet?

Does the reverse count? After reading Chalo on usenet, I now
realize I may have actually met him in the flesh. I used to
live in a housing co-op in Austin Texas where a large guy called
Chalo with large hair who rode a home-made bicycle used to visit.
Can't be too many of those. I wasn't much into bicycles then.

-harold

On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 14:31:25 GMT, Dane Jackson
wrote:
I ran into Chalo at Bikeworks. He was teaching the class on wheelbuilding.
What tipped me off was him talking about Jobst Brandt's book "The Bicycle
Wheel" and describing him as a curmudgeonly engineer [1]. I figured out
from that that he was a rb.tech reader.

The fact that he's slightly larger than The Incredible Hulk didn't
tip you off?
--
Rick Onanian

Frank wrote:
Just out of curiosity - is it common for cyclists to meet face to face
after first encountering each other on Usenet?

After a recent invitation ("If you're ever in the neighborhood...") I
started thinking. I've actually met at least four cyclists via this
route. I've ridden with two of the four, and one couple graciously took
me and my family into their home on a recent bike tour.

I've had a couple near misses, too - one guy was out of his far-distant
town when I passed through (or alternately, knew enough to not answer
the phone! ;-) And sadly, Ken Kifer never had a chance to accept our
invitation here, although he'd planned to.

Is this common?

I don't recall meeting anyone off UseNet, yet, but have hooked with
folks off various other on-line message boards. (GOBA, Tandemmag, AOL,
Baton Rouge BC's Thanksgiving event, and so forth.)
Would love to meet Claire!

--Karen M.

"Karen M." wrote in message
om...

Would love to meet Claire!

If you're ever in the Seattle area, don't hesitate to drop a line, we'll do
a ride. That goes for most of you, not just Karen. You just get to decide if
you're in the "most" category ;-)

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"Karen M." wrote:

I don't recall meeting anyone off UseNet, yet, but have hooked with
folks off various other on-line message boards. (GOBA, Tandemmag, AOL,
Baton Rouge BC's Thanksgiving event, and so forth.)

Same here, I've met a number of people through other newsgroups and Internet
venues, and have made some terrific friends that way.

From this list, I narrowly missed meeting up with Luigi de Guzman in Cambridge
last summer. (Hey Luigi, where are you? Long Time No Read!). James Thompson
also very kindly offered to introduce me to some of his bikes in central
Paris, but so far I've been timid to take him up on it.

Would love to meet Claire!

Wouldn't we all, for bikes and Harry Potter!

EFR
Ile de France
(who dreams of a pilgrimmage to the silvery lights of the Seattle-Vancouver
area some day ...)

PS: If anyone is planning a stop through in the Paris region, with or without
bike, let me know. I feel I'm loosing a lot of close friends these days
because their eyes start crossing when I start drivelling on again about bikes
- so hard to share a mania. But there you have it - Mercury-Pluto sextile,
obsessive mindset.

In rec.bicycles.misc Rick Onanian wrote:
On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 14:31:25 GMT, Dane Jackson
wrote:
I ran into Chalo at Bikeworks. He was teaching the class on wheelbuilding.
What tipped me off was him talking about Jobst Brandt's book "The Bicycle
Wheel" and describing him as a curmudgeonly engineer [1]. I figured out
from that that he was a rb.tech reader.

The fact that he's slightly larger than The Incredible Hulk didn't
tip you off?

I suppose it should have, but I didn't really connect the two at the time.

--
Dane Jackson - z u v e m b i @ u n i x b i g o t s . o r g
The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height
but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble
than to be walked upon.
-- Franz Kafka

"frkrygow" wrote in message
...
Just out of curiosity - is it common for cyclists to meet face to face
after first encountering each other on Usenet?


Several years ago ('96ish?), riding my homebuilt 'bent trike back to work at
lunchtime...this minivan passes me and SCREEEEECHES to a halt. Turns around
and two guys jump out. Conversation ensues.."Nice bike, blah de blah."

Turns out we all were on the IHPVA recumbent and/or trikes listserv, and I
had actually talked to one of them a coupla times previously. For some
reason, they just happened to be driving through my subdivision.

Pete

"Ken [NY)" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 00:46:29 GMT, "Claire Petersky"
excreted:

If you're ever in the Seattle area, don't hesitate to drop a line, we'll
do
a ride. That goes for most of you, not just Karen. You just get to decide
if
you're in the "most" category ;-)

I'll be over tomorrow morning, say about eightish? My sons can
house-sit while we ride. They tend to eat a lot though.

That would be *fabulous*. My older daughter will be busy with a special exam
all morning -- if your sons can mind my younger one, we have all morning to
ride, and my husband can come too. He just did the grocery shopping, so
there's plenty to eat in the house for your sons.

What do you want to do -- ride around the top of the lake? That would be
about what I'd like to do. It's a 45 mile loop from here, at least the route
I like the best. They say chance of rain tomorrow morning, so bring your
jacket.

See you at 8:00! I can't *wait*!


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"Claire Petersky" wrote in message
news:uHJLb.10867$I06.73604@attbi_s01...

I'll be over tomorrow morning, say about eightish? My sons can
house-sit while we ride. They tend to eat a lot though.

That would be *fabulous*. .

What do you want to do -- ride around the top of the lake? That would be
about what I'd like to do. It's a 45 mile loop from here, at least the
route
I like the best. They say chance of rain tomorrow morning, so bring your
jacket.

See you at 8:00! I can't *wait*!

Ken, it's about 7:40 AM, and I'm just going to go upstairs and put on my
tights. I'm looking forward to seeing you here in just a few minutes. It's
not raining (although overcast), and as warm as 46 degrees already, so it
looks like some good riding. If you're not here by 8:00, I'll be heading up
and over the lake, so just catch up to me, ok?


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Well, Ken, you never showed, but I did write a review of this morning's
ride, which you may view over at r.b.rides. Sorry, you just missed out!


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