Delta brakes are just about gone... there were 4 or 5 sets up last week... down to a Croce-D'Aune set and one (ending now) rear brake....
and there is this Fetish Cycles bike... listing at 62cm... i get all excited... but that's center to top, and its only a 58 c-c and the top tube is 58.5
tooo GD small... who's the retard that decided to size frames based on center to top anyway?
fark... the search goes on
Big jonny's got me thinkin:
about...
Marco Pantani...
Marco Pantani
January 13, 1970 - February 14, 2004
yeah... the "doper"
and man... i tell ya i dunno... Hamilton's case, Heras and even the Luge dude with the hair products...
I'm typically one to say: You knew the rules... be aware of what you are putting in.
In Hamilton's case, if he knew they were going to be testing for blood doping (homologous stuff) get some doc's to prove your 'natural' variation so you can argue the validity of the test before you are DQ'ed.
Sure... that's tough... assumes you know what tests they are going to use. But on the other side if you are really clean... why worry? Heras? Hamilton? If Lance is really clean, those guys must be as well...
its pretty insane... pretty sad...
and then there is this:
------German rider Danilo Hondo, currently in training while serving a two-year suspension, was injured on Monday when struck by a car in what appears to be a road-rage incident in Somerset West, near Cape Town, South Africa. Tony Brown, an acquaintance of Hondo, and Matthias Kessler, were training with the German sprinter on the Paarl Vallei Road when a car drove past and abused the riders. Both Brown and Kessler said the driver, aged around 65, waited for them to pass before ramming Hondo's bike "with intent".
The extent of Hondo's injuries is not yet known, and Hondo himself isn't sure when he'll be riding again. "The doctors will have to check me out," he said. "Sometimes you get internal injuries from a fall like that - I'm not so worried about crashing, you can crash in any country. The problem is that drivers can do this."
In a strange twist Somerset West police said that the driver of the vehicle called the police station after the incident and reported the cyclists attacking him, something denied by both Brown and Kessler. Hondo is reported to be taking action against the driver
Fer Craps sake... sounds like the little kid who cut me off and lied to the Insurance company to try and have it be my fault cause he's too young and cheap to have collision coverage on his car!
Um, yeah.. the three big sprinters attacked a CAR... right... sure those guys can prolly keep up with about any car... but come on... car vs people on bike... we all know who wins...
or doesn't... kinda funny though - Hondo's labeled a doper... right? howzat rank up there?
I should add that maybe i'm fortunate NOT to end up like Hondo
'cause I had some dude drive up behind me lastnight... i was on the right side of the road, stopped - at the red light...
a big truck was in the lane (one lane each direction, no turn lane, and a parking solid while line extending to the intersection), gonna turn left (the truck - i'm going straight)... and i hear a polite honk...
then another one...
and its a guy wanting to turn right...
i wanna go straight... the lane is wide enough (Barely) for a car to sneak through... where'm i gonna go... this guys hand motioning for me to get over... where? Stand in the snow bank? run the red light? what?
so well i say something about- it's not a lane, its a red light something... and then i look back again and he's waving a little badge at me...
and at that time the light turns green, i go straight, the big truck DOESN'T turn left infront of the cars (might be a first time ever that a left turn vehicle yeilds to on coming traffic when the light turns green).....
and this badge waving horn honking dude - not a marked or even unmarked car - had passenger classed plates - turns right... about 20 seconds after he honks at me...
motherfuckin retard... wait... that or gimme a nice clean swept/plowed bike path or something...
patience... wtf, racing around me or through the red like is gonna get you there, what? a whole 30 seconds sooner?
slow the fuck down... put down the XL dunkin donuts iced coffee (yeah they still sell/drink em here in the winter) and fucking relax...
Yes he could have driven up close to me, bumped the bike, laid on the horn longer/louder... it wasn't so much the honking, as the him waving me into the fucking snow bank... WTF... and he's got a badge? crazy stuff...
and to think i still feel safer riding my bike in this city than driving the car.... and i do. I think it has to do with the speed - on a bike there's a limit how fast you can go... and the awareness that ya gain from NOT having a big ol' steel cage surrounding you is not to be overlooked... the smaller footprint and potential for evasive action that isn't defined by a road... maybe i'm just psyco
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