I’d happily join your crew.
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Maybe when I’m old enough that a heart attack is an actual possibility.
A branch fell off my tree last night and landed in the parking lot of the building next door. It miraculously missed all the cars and the fence and even the dumpsters. I’m very lucky.
There’s a big tree in my front yard, and a branch collapsed on my driveway during one of like five days where my car happened not to be there
I’m still using the branch as firewood
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Preach it bro
I loved riding STP even though it was among the least good rides of summer for me
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fuck I can’t do ragbrai
I can commit to 2020 tho
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Hey that happened to us too
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I guess I should stop short of pooping on other people’s fun, it’s just that what I’ve seen of RAGBRAI is a really long bike ride made accessible and fun by cutting it up into many, many short pieces punctuated by tons of food. I can enjoy that kind of thing for a day, but for 2 weeks? Plus, I just can’t get used to seeing people riding in cycling jerseys plus gym shorts. Weird.
Let’s make this happen!
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They look fine
I just hate that stupid Paulesque adjustment system.
ahem only one week
If you are a hero jock cyclist yeah RAGBRAI is a bummer. The folks who can hammer can paceline through any day of RAGBRAI before lunchtime but the old Freds will yell at them all the time for violating the spirit of the ride.
I mean, RAGBRAI is definitely dumb. But on the other hand, getting to ride your bike on basically carless highways at any pace you feel like, stopping for beers and pork chops, and then drinking like a twelver of BLL/High Life and a whole bag of Dill Pickle Lays and then eating whatever brats or chops or steaks you grill up at the end and then doing that every day for a week is it’s own kind of heaven.
If tarckBRAI is happening in 2020 I would try to find a way to make it happen. My folks live like 1-3 hours from any of the start sites.
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I could plan around a 2020 bicycle weekend
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I’m curious, and since I completely blew my PBP 2019 prep, maybe I should get demoted to biking across Iowa.
There’s a whole RAGBRAI crew in my neghborhood (which is 1500 miles from Iowa), they have a bus and are named after a Blue Oyster Cult song. might be able to get in with them?
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This makes me homesick for MN.
I can’t be bothered to look, but if the ACP allows them you should fill out your series with permanents.
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Can I do RAGBRAI on a track bike? I bet they frown on that if not explicitly disallow it.
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I don’t have more than two open weekends before I’d have to fly to France, so it’s not looking great for this edition. It’s cool, I probably have seven or eight more chances to do it
I seriously doubt that anyone cares
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Tarkbrai 2020 is fucking on as shit. Adding it to my work calendar
I’m all about riding slowly with a case of shitty beer and a huge bag of chips
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