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• Commented on Get Your Footon - No, Wait, Don't.
  What is the portmanteau of Fuji and Ugly? Fugli?...
• Commented on Hipsters discussing Cyclocross
  There is a French saying: “one must suffer to be cute”. I’d imagine the same is true if one wants to be truly hip. Fashion is an obligation, not a casual choice....
• Commented on Cyclist Allegedly Hits Child and Rides Away
  Seriously hope the kid is alright and hope his injuries are only temporary. Getting hit by anything that in combination weighs around 200 lbs, going at typical bicycle speed has to hurt. That said… If there is any sort of...
• Commented on Cyclists Requested to Attend Funeral for Fellow Rider in Westchester, NY
  If this is another “didn’t see ‘em”, I’m going to be sick. And the newspaper claiming “no witnesses”? Was the bus empty? Fact: say I hit a car stopped at a light. Rear ended it so hard the passengers got...
• Commented on Some People Are So Much Cooler Than I Am
  Moral of the story: complain enough and eventually someone gets the message and fixes it for you....
• Commented on Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me, My Bike Was Stolen
  How awesome would it be to hear Carl Kasell say “don’t steal bikes, bro!”? Very awesome, that’s how much....
• Commented on KORE for the rest of us
  I’ve been using their Cross Race brakes and find them to be the bee’s knees for muddy conditions, just swap out their pads with some appropriate SwissStop pads for your conditions and you’re good to go for about half the...
• Commented on Mark V's "Poop on Wheels" Award: Puma Fixie
  The thing about this that is so irksome is that it’s clearly driven by the “wow there’s a lot of money in fixies, let’s get in on it” attitude. “Limited Edition” should be limited to those with non-limited editions, namely...
• Commented on Interbike preview: MetriGear's Power Meters
  I like the direction this is going, but it still doesn’t solve portability to a cross or mountain bike as no one would think of doing either with a pair of Zeros under their feet....
• Commented on In the Bike Shop: Actual Conversations
  JRA is kinda like the Bro Deal. You have to build up some cred in the shop before you can effectively take advantage of it. Point in case: I was riding my ‘cross bike a while ago when the SRAM...
• Commented on Most Badass BMX cranks. Ever.
  Velonews did a report on bmx at the olympics prior to Beijing and noted that most of the US team had SRM power meter cranks- but it didn’t seem like the riders had a very sophisticated protocol for training with...
• Commented on Fall rides with Hed Stinger 6
  Personally I always thought the ‘cross application of wide profile rims/low spoke count wheels weren’t about aerodynamics but for mud clearance and for tracking straight lines in mud or sand....
• Commented on Fall rides with Hed Stinger 6
  Kick him twice, once for me. Also, don’t care about squeal, that is the price of having two intact collarbones and no cold, wet roadrash. +1 for disc brakes....
• Commented on MC SpandX's Performance
  What I “don’t und’astand is how I can spend five grand” on a bike with a Shimano 105 gruppo and Taiwanese carbon. But that’s me....
• Commented on From the Bike Shop: Repair Oddities
  “I don’t know how much exposure to a saltwater environment is necessary to create this much galvanic corrosion of the aluminium cups, but one of the cups came out of the frame in powdery-white, misshapen fragments. I’m from Florida, and...
• Commented on Lance Not Lance at le Tour De France
  The only thing more stupid than Americans are faux-cosmopolitans who go onto websites that have large American audiences and then try to pick a fight, and then ignore responses explaining why the Americans believe what they believe. Not very cosmopolitan...
• Commented on When the Rain Stops
  Seriously, who rides bicycles around in skimpy two piece swimsuits? Oh, that’s right… triathletes. And we all know how much fun it is to make fun of triathletes riding bikes!...
• Commented on Velomobile at Spezi 2009
  Can’t really say that the folding Trek is all that new or special: http://www.trekbikes.com/us/en/bikes/2006/archive/f600 and http://www.trekbikes.com/us/en/bikes/2006/archive/f400 Looks like Trek got out of the folder market right after 2006. Maybe they’re thinking about getting back in?...
• Commented on This Racer Is Badass
  When I lived in Saratoga Springs, I rode in what was then called the “Battenkill-Roubaix”, and I’ll second the notion that the Tour of Battenkill is an All-American type event. Besides all the meet-the-pro type stuff, the community races are...

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