Great Steel Ride Across the Golden Gate Today

"Andre Jute" wrote: (clip) You're not one of these materials fascists, are
you, Leo?
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No. That was my impression of a news-group topic Fascist. I think a little
humor can be funny sometimes.

Sergio wrote:
On 8 Mar, 07:42, SMS wrote:
Did I mention that I prefer steel frames?

Lucky you!
What should we ride over bridges we still have, that the Romans built
with stone?

Sergio
Pisa

funny!

Sergio wrote:
On 8 Mar, 07:42, SMS wrote:
Did I mention that I prefer steel frames?

Lucky you!
What should we ride over bridges we still have, that the Romans built
with stone?

Here you go:

"http://static.flickr.com/117/281387667_c7b19cf325.jpg?v=0"

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Andre Jute wrote:

On Mar 8, 9:38*am, Ryan Cousineau wrote:
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*Chalo wrote:
Sergio wrote:

SMS wrote:

Did I mention that I prefer steel frames?

Lucky you!
What should we ride over bridges we still have, that the Romans built
with stone?

I reckon you should stick with tradition and ride a mule. *Mule is
real. *Wait, that doesn't rhyme. *Mule is kewl. *Yeah, that's the
ticket.

Chalo

Oh, if only you were joking...on the Greek island my father-in-law came
from, the older residential areas are built on a hill and with "streets"
so narrow that they are impassable to motorized vehicles*. To this day,
stuff like construction materials and other heavy loads are transported
for the last few hundred metres by donkey.

*I rode them on my bicycle once. This made me a lunatic, a terror to the
foot traffic, and I still had to CX-dismount a few times to cope with
stairs.

What's "CX-dismount"? Is that what us common people call "leg-over"?

Andre "The Prolerarian" Jute

"cyclocross-dismount." Yeah, it just means I got off my bike, but a
cyclocrosser will typically do so at running speed, run through the
unrideable obstacle at speed, and then remount without slowing down.

--
Ryan Cousineau http://www.wiredcola.com/
"In other newsgroups, they killfile trolls."
"In rec.bicycles.racing, we coach them."

On Mar 8, 12:29 am, Sergio wrote:
On 8 Mar, 07:42, SMS wrote:

Did I mention that I prefer steel frames?

Lucky you!
What should we ride over bridges we still have, that the Romans built
with stone?

The so-called 'B.C. wheel.'

No pedals is totally real.

A Muzi wrote:
Well, Fabricius knew a thing or two about getting value for the
treasury! Seems pretty well made. For the first two millennia, anyway.
The 'no wheels during daylight' rule probably helped the break-in period
a bit.

My curiosity is piqued. What's the 'no wheels during daylight' rule?

Mark J.

On Mar 8, 3:33*pm, A Muzi wrote:
On 8 Mar, 07:42, SMS wrote:
Did I mention that I prefer steel frames?
Sergio wrote:
Lucky you!
What should we ride over bridges we still have, that the Romans built
with stone?

Well, Fabricius knew a thing or two about getting value for the
treasury! Seems pretty well made. For the first two millennia, anyway.
The 'no wheels during daylight' rule probably helped the break-in period
a bit.

Back to your question:http://www.stonescyclery.com/about_us.html
--
Andrew Muzi
* www.yellowjersey.org/
* Open every day since 1 April, 1971

Dear Andrew & Sergio,

Wrought-iron tension members, cast-iron compression members:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truss_bridge#Bollman_truss

Suitable bicycle with charcoal-iron spokes:

http://tinyurl.com/d7xmtb

Nice q-factor. Vest-pocket whistle for alerting pedestrians is
probably brass.

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

On 8 Mar, 07:42, SMS wrote:
Did I mention that I prefer steel frames?

Sergio wrote:
Lucky you!
What should we ride over bridges we still have, that the Romans built
with stone?


Well, Fabricius knew a thing or two about getting value for the
treasury! Seems pretty well made. For the first two millennia, anyway.
The 'no wheels during daylight' rule probably helped the break-in period
a bit.

Back to your question:
http://www.stonescyclery.com/about_us.html
--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

A Muzi wrote:
Well, Fabricius knew a thing or two about getting value for the
treasury! Seems pretty well made. For the first two millennia, anyway.
The 'no wheels during daylight' rule probably helped the break-in
period a bit.

Mark wrote:
My curiosity is piqued. What's the 'no wheels during daylight' rule?

In the Republic and also Empire, Rome didn't allow wheeled vehicles into
the city during daylight hours. Maybe it was a suggestion from the Roman
Pedestrian Safety Committee? Wouldn't do to have some spoiled rich
teenager driving a chariot over the citizenry while reading a scroll.

Huh, that sounds vaguely familiar; much like my daily commute.
--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

Sergio wrote:
On 8 Mar, 07:42, SMS wrote:
Did I mention that I prefer steel frames?

Lucky you!
What should we ride over bridges we still have, that the Romans built
with stone?

I'd ride one of these:

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/real-man.html

Dan Manly Man Becker