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BlackDiamond said:
Training for Blade ? Are you going to Atlanta by bike ?
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Well not this year. But I want to do that in 2011/12.

I'm leaving work in 2010 and after that I'd have time to ride cross country and make it to Blade.

I had talked about a route with Jimmy Jones since he has crossed the USA many times on his motor bike.

One issue is crossing the Rockies because I'd have to leave the West Coast in late April or early May so I think I'd have to head south to cross and eliminate the chance of snow; a plus on that route is that I could leave in February and stop and spend a month at the Betty Ford Center in Palm Springs and wouldn’t get delayed at Cotton Tail Ranch on the northern route.

The other issue is that I’d be 57/58 and at the rate my body is corroding I’d be lucky to get past the San Francisco city limits.:grumpy: :grumpy:

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Tony G said:
Well not this year. But I want to do that in 2011/12.

I'm leaving work in 2010 and after that I'd have time to ride cross country and make it to Blade.

I had talked about a route with Jimmy Jones since he has crossed the USA many times on his motor bike.

One issue is crossing the Rockies because I'd have to leave the West Coast in late April or early May so I think I'd have to head south to cross and eliminate the chance of snow; a plus on that route is that I could leave in February and stop and spend a month at the Betty Ford Center in Palm Springs and wouldn’t get delayed at Cotton Tail Ranch on the northern route.

The other issue is that I’d be 57/58 and at the rate my body is corroding I’d be lucky to get past the San Francisco city limits.:grumpy: :grumpy:

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Tony is the american Mario Cipolini, except he's a foot shorter and 15 years older but otherwise they could be twins.
 
BlackDiamond said:
I have never had a chance to see him yet but I have had this impression :D
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This is me on the left:thumbup:

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how did you get that video of me and Tony. Tony was the one holding on to me. That scotch sure hits the spot.:thumbup:

Tony was so badass here that the local italian riders here nicknamed him the assasin I think or something like that. They always yelled "iL asino" as he went by.
 
Cobalt said:
how did you get that video of me and Tony. Tony was the one holding on to me. That scotch sure hits the spot.:thumbup:

Tony was so badass here that the local italian riders here nicknamed him the assasin I think or something like that. They always yelled "iL asino" as he went by.
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That video is a part of a very famous italian comic movie and it could remind of Tony crossing the mountains on its way to Atlanta :-)

Asino means donkey ! does it make any sense ? :eek:
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Cobalt said:
how did you get that video of me and Tony. Tony was the one holding on to me. That scotch sure hits the spot.:thumbup:

Tony was so badass here that the local italian riders here nicknamed him the assasin I think or something like that. They always yelled "iL asino" as he went by.
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Hey Cobalt,

mostrare il dito medio
 
BlackDiamond said:
My brother was working in a lab in GAITHERSBURG MD. Then he went back to Italy and now he's moving from physics to economy because there are no job positions here for physics.
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That would be NIST -- National Institute of Standards and Technologies. I 'threw' a lot of money their way in the early 1990s, when they were still called NBS. Some good work has come from there.

Sorry he's moved away from physics ... but a lot of folks have. Hard to find a good, satisfying job that isn't already filled with one of us old fogies. Sorry about that ... :o
 
Here in Italy research doesn't exist. You have no chance to find a job as physics unless you become a teacher in high school. And that's also hard at the moment.
 
BlackDiamond said:
Here in Italy research doesn't exist. You have no chance to find a job as physics unless you become a teacher in high school. And that's also hard at the moment.
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Things do not sound good for Italy at the moment. No research, no 'new blood' in teaching ... sounds like they're mortgaging tomorrow to pay for today. :grumpy: Not a good deal.

Of course, I'm an American. Who am I to complain about that? :eek:
 
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