It is Friday & its shots night.

Tony G said:

I have a thing about Shimano. I had a brand new Shimano group the year they came out with 9-speed and the brakes were so bad they were scary. It turns out the pads were all wrong but Shimano kept telling everyone that all was cool. The pads were so bad that they would GrindDucci the rims so badly that I had to rebuild the wheels. I sold off the group and never looked back.

I also have this expensive Shimano casting reel that I bought for an Alaska trip because I broke my right arm about three weeks before the trip and I couldn’t cast a fly rod all day. By the end of the week it would reengage the spool mid cast. What a hunk of crap!:grumpy:


"GrindDucci" - (as a verb) will it be in the Oxford English Dictionary after the next update?
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GrindDucci...LMAO, that is too funny.

I'm no shimaNO fan either. Their stuff usually works, but it just lacks something. I have 11 bikes (including 3 mtbs) and only 1 shimaNO part in the whole lot.
 
BlackHills said:
GrindDucci...LMAO, that is too funny.

I'm no shimaNO fan either. Their stuff usually works, but it just lacks something. I have 11 bikes (including 3 mtbs) and only 1 shimaNO part in the whole lot.
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11!!!

YOU HOG!!!

I only have 10...:o
 
And 3 frames waiting to be built up....

On the other hand, there's not even a comparison when it comes to Infi, you have me hands down....
 
BlackHills said:
GrindDucci...LMAO, that is too funny.
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Where was that word when I needed it back in 1960 it would have worked so much better in my "How I Spent my Summer Vacation" essay.

"We went to Yosemite in our new 1959 Oldsmobile and as we were driving into Yosemite my dad was looking at the view and veered off to the right and GrindDuccied the entire right side of the car on a rock wall."

"Then in Tahoe I rented this bike and I hit a speed bump and hit the asphalt at about 20 m.p.h. I GrindDuccied my knee and elbow so badly I ended up in the emergency room."


 
Two other things a bicyclist should carry besides a patch kit and chain tool.
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The FBM just came today!
 
Yahoo!!

But I'm so fat right now the extra two lbs of the knife would cause me to come to a grinding stop.... Oh wait.... what kind of stop? Could it be used as an adjective:confused: !!!


chickenfried said:
Two other things a bicyclist should carry besides a patch kit and chain tool.
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The FBM just came today!
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At least you're back on the bike. The timbuk2 bag in the pic is my second one. It's so clean because my riding slowed to a trickle shortly after purchase:o :o .

If you really want to do a grinducci stop you could borrow my 70's Schwinn Traveler.

Tony G said:
Yahoo!!

But I'm so fat right now the extra two lbs of the knife would cause me to come to a grinding stop.... Oh wait.... what kind of stop? Could it be used as an adjective:confused: !!!
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I've got to ask...while I recognize all the single malt...how does that MacAllan Fine Oak 15 taste? Compared to, say, a nice MacAllan 18?

Haven't tried it yet, and I wonder if the different casking has significantly changed the flavor.
 
All this roadie porn is doing something to my insides! :barf:







;) :D

Just foolin'; I'd love to get a road bike someday. Only problem is that there are very few paved roads in my neck of the woods...and X-country riding is challenging just in different ways.

The last fall I participated in a tour in SW Wisconsin (near the Mississippi). If you've never been there, the area has some huge climbs a lot like the foothills in SO Cal. My brother and I were the only 2 on Mt Bikes, while everyone else had a road bike. Needless to say, the only couple that beat me back to the starting point was a pair of triathaletes who were in training for a competition the following weekend (they skipped lunch while everyone else stopped - because they had a dog waiting in the car at the starting point).

I was using some low-resistance tires (1.95s) so I think that probably helped give me a little bit extra in leading the rest of the group...but having a road bike sure would be the bomb!

Now I just need to get back into good riding shape...I had a bunion that was causing me discomfort on rides as short as 6 miles into a ride as of 2 years ago. Had it removed in Nov of 05, and spent a lot of last year recovering. I have some weight to toss and some endurance to build back up. Still, the fact that I managed to keep lead a bunch of roadies on a mountain bike sure made my day. :D :D :D
 
OldPhysics said:
I've got to ask...while I recognize all the single malt...how does that MacAllan Fine Oak 15 taste? Compared to, say, a nice MacAllan 18?

Haven't tried it yet, and I wonder if the different casking has significantly changed the flavor.
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I have not had the 18. I have had the 12 and the as I recall the 15 is much smoother in flavor and finish. Truth is I have not had it in a little while and I don't have a good recall of how it was? It wasn't expensive so I'd say just try it. If you don't like it send it to me. :p
 
About eight years ago I did the Marin Century ride (100 miles) and at abut mile 60 I caught up to a loooong pace line of riders on a very long slight incline like 10 miles at 1 to 3% grade. The pace just got hotter and hotter and as guys popped off the back I kept moving up. Finally after maybe five miles there is a big surge on a bump and it all gets blown apart. A small group of four of us regrouped and I see that the person pulling that train was a woman pro Mt Biker actually riding a Mt Bike with road slicks! Then with just four strong riders it got really fast and finally she sits up and in a totally conversational voice (I was panting) she says “I have to wait for my boyfriend and the guys he came here with.”


Deadhead Archer said:
All this roadie porn is doing something to my insides! :barf:







;) :D

Just foolin'; I'd love to get a road bike someday. Only problem is that there are very few paved roads in my neck of the woods...and X-country riding is challenging just in different ways.

The last fall I participated in a tour in SW Wisconsin (near the Mississippi). If you've never been there, the area has some huge climbs a lot like the foothills in SO Cal. My brother and I were the only 2 on Mt Bikes, while everyone else had a road bike. Needless to say, the only couple that beat me back to the starting point was a pair of triathaletes who were in training for a competition the following weekend (they skipped lunch while everyone else stopped - because they had a dog waiting in the car at the starting point).

I was using some low-resistance tires (1.95s) so I think that probably helped give me a little bit extra in leading the rest of the group...but having a road bike sure would be the bomb!

Now I just need to get back into good riding shape...I had a bunion that was causing me discomfort on rides as short as 6 miles into a ride as of 2 years ago. Had it removed in Nov of 05, and spent a lot of last year recovering. I have some weight to toss and some endurance to build back up. Still, the fact that I managed to keep lead a bunch of roadies on a mountain bike sure made my day. :D :D :D
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Tony G said:
About eight years ago I did the Marin Century ride (100 miles) and at abut mile 60 I caught up to a loooong pace line of riders on a very long slight incline like 10 miles at 1 to 3% grade. The pace just got hotter and hotter and as guys popped off the back I kept moving up. Finally after maybe five miles there is a big surge on a bump and it all gets blown apart. A small group of four of us regrouped and I see that the person pulling that train was a woman pro Mt Biker actually riding a Mt Bike with road slicks! Then with just four strong riders it got really fast and finally she sits up and in a totally conversational voice (I was panting) she says “I have to wait for my boyfriend and the guys he came here with.”
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:thumbup: :D

Here in IA, we have many hills but not many that are long climbs (SW Wisconsin takes the cake there). But nothing beats a 60 miler on combination dirt and gravel roads way off the beaten path.

It's great to see others here who share some of the same "other" passions that I do - besides Busse blades! :D I was referring to the booze, of course. ;)
 
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