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In that case, if anyone is like Komorebi and too hardcore to wear a pink jersey, battle jackets with lotsa spikes and patches are also acceptable.

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I’m here to coordinate another very important matter with all of you… Crystal Ride jersey or Waba jersey?

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Im impressed. Only the most advanced guild navigators can fold space.

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I’ve found I need to ride a bike for a few months before its name becomes apparent.

My old roadbike was named Taintpuncher for good reason (RIP Taintpuncher!)
My current bike is named Leprosy because everything on it keeps falling apart
but I often call it Frankenbike these days because it became such a hodgepodge of different manufacturer’s parts (and it’s green)

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@Kitty 145060 wrote:

I’d noticed his absence too! He’s been near the top of the heap of the local rankings for years. I was worried…

I was looking at the top 100 or so WAAS members on the NBC site this morning, and there are many many people who I see riding in person or on strava on a regular basis who haven’t gotten their miles logged in anywhere from 5 days to 3 weeks. I sent FFG a comment, and a few others. Only have today and tomorrow to get your August points to count! Mr. Meatmotor you’re one of them!

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Are you the guy who already has this sign mounted to the back of his bike with the VA code #s and stuff?

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Here’s everything I know:
If you have to park your bike out of sight in even a semi public area for multiple hours, your objective is to make your bike harder to steal/disassemble than the other bikes around it. An A+ locking method involves 2 U type locks, one through each wheel/triangle, and a cable/chain of some kind connecting everything, with 2 or all of them attached to different parts of a securely constructed rack or fence or whatever. Unless the thief has a hell of a lot of undisturbed time on their hands they’re probably gonna see that and pass it over for an easier target. Obviously you don’t want to carry all that around with you everywhere, and it still doesn’t guarantee you protection, so what you wind up doing depends on the situation.

Wire cables of any kind will only prevent opportunistic thieves from walking off with your bike, they can be cut in seconds by anyone who has brought even a small pair of wire cutters, so they should really only be used for temporary stuff.

Don’t lock your bike to something only through the front tire, cause that also just takes a few seconds to remove and throw the rest in a van or wheelie away.

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It’s probably a factor of where I live and where I bike, but I’ve had a lot more bad experiences with people driving older beater cars/vans/trucks passing too close or honking and being generally unsafe or aggressive. I’ve wondered if someone in this area who feels marginalized themselves because of their economic status, might subconsciously exhibit bullying behavior or release aggression towards a momentarily even more marginalized person (the biker in the street) while driving because of that psychological disassociation one gets while driving a vehicle.

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Turning in my homework assignment from FFG:
I think the mystery trees growing around the trail side of the CCwater park are River Birch. Trees are harder to identify than birds, had to go back and take a picture of the leaves this afternoon :rolleyes: I’m not confident my answer is correct.

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yea I like it. looks like good design. my current bell annoys me cause the hammer flips and spins out of position constantly. im hoping the copper will develop a nice patina, eventually looking diseased to match the rest of my bike 😮

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Kudos for keeping a level head. I would flip the fuck out. I’m working on that, but thankfully I don’t get a lot of opportunities to test reacting calmly to stuff like that.

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allayou are getting tossed in the pit with the bunny

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Took me a while to figure it out but our lil sandwich eatin coffee cup landin flappin and poopin buddy this tuesday was a juvenile european starling, who looks pretty different from the adult version.
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See you all tomorrow morning!

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Bike around the bomb is at 10 am on Saturday but pencil me in as a possible show-up to this too. I’ll need to successfully take nap to stay up this late because I gotta be honest I’m the reincarnation of my great great grandmother, one of the first Methodists, famous for going to bed at 6pm in order to raise holy ruckus after a necessary 14-16 hours of sleep every day.

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