Hi David, welcome aboard! Now, book a ticket to Yosemite!
Hey guys. Thanks for the warm welcome. I'll be expecting that fez hat with the DGrin logo on it any day now in the mail. Andy tells me it is required to wear it any time I post a reply.
Yosemite will still be there when I can make it, which, unfortunately won't be in May. Tooooo busy at work (biggest month actually) in cycling retailing up north here. Gonna make for some late night log-ins for me for a while. Now, when an August-March shoot-out happens, count me there (if its in a warm place, hint).
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"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - Wayne Gretzky
Hey guys. Thanks for the warm welcome. I'll be expecting that fez hat with the DGrin logo on it any day now in the mail. Andy tells me it is required to wear it any time I post a reply.
Yosemite will still be there when I can make it, which, unfortunately won't be in May. Tooooo busy at work (biggest month actually) in cycling retailing up north here. Gonna make for some late night log-ins for me for a while. Now, when an August-March shoot-out happens, count me there (if its in a warm place, hint).
Hey, can't be that busy, y'all have two feet of snow on the ground! :haha
Cycling, eh? That should pique Patch29's interest.
Yosemite will still be there when I can make it, which, unfortunately won't be in May. Tooooo busy at work (biggest month actually) in cycling retailing up north here. Gonna make for some late night log-ins for me for a while. Now, when an August-March shoot-out happens, count me there (if its in a warm place, hint).
I am rapidly falling in the same boat, the next three weeks are getting super busy, so Yosemite is fading for now. I will most likely have time in July to travel.
I may make it to Chicago towards the end of the year. My brother will be working on his MBA at Northwestern. I will try to get there before it gets to cold to bike.
I have a Surly Long Haul Trucker and my mountain bike is a Rock Lobster, just waiting to get some dry days to take it on some of the local trails. If I don't go to school I may live off my bike for a while. I would really like to log some miles on the Great Divide Trails and many others.
Welcome David, as a cyclist, I'm sure you're ready for the initiation ritual... or is it just New England teams that use the paddle???
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Paddles, eh? With all the Mod.'s going to Yosemite, I am safer staying put here in the midwest. Now... pedals I can deal with. Paddles I'm not so sure.
My Smugmug
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - Wayne Gretzky
Paddles, eh? With all the Mod.'s going to Yosemite, I am safer staying put here in the midwest. Now... pedals I can deal with. Paddles I'm not so sure.
Pedals? sheesh, I'd take a nice flat paddle over an Eggbeater Ti anyday! (unless of course I got to keep them after the ordeal...)
All my pedal powered bikes sport Time dirt pedals. Are there really any others??
I used to agree with you... till I tried some egg beaters! I'd love a pair of the Ti ones. So much less crap to break. I got sick of replacing plastic parts on the lighter Times and the aluminum ones are just too damn big and heavy.
I used to agree with you... till I tried some egg beaters! I'd love a pair of the Ti ones. So much less crap to break. I got sick of replacing plastic parts on the lighter Times and the aluminum ones are just too damn big and heavy.
I have every confidence that you'll keep this place running while the rest of us are off playing at Yosemite Sorry you won't be able to join us there. But, as you point out, work pays the bills
BTW, we only wear the fez on solemn occassions, like initiations :lol
This thread has turned hilarious in short order. (and BTW, I'm a Look man on the road, and an SPD man on path and trails, for the curious, or if you're all starting some database on DGrinner's pedal preferences).
So, who else is staying back to mind this store in May? Or does my name get to appear as a temp. mod. in all the forums? GULP! :help
Thanks for the Fez hat tip, Steve. It still has yet to arrive. :cry
I have every confidence that you'll keep this place running while the rest of us are off playing at Yosemite Sorry you won't be able to join us there. But, as you point out, work pays the bills
BTW, we only wear the fez on solemn occassions, like initiations :lol
Good to have you here David
Steve
My Smugmug
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - Wayne Gretzky
This thread has turned hilarious in short order. (and BTW, I'm a Look man on the road, and an SPD man on path and trails, for the curious, or if you're all starting some database on DGrinner's pedal preferences).
So, who else is staying back to mind this store in May? Or does my name get to appear as a temp. mod. in all the forums? GULP! :help
Thanks for the Fez hat tip, Steve. It still has yet to arrive. :cry
I'm not off to play in California either. We can wreak havoc together
Road pedals
Well, to each his own, but I've been using these
http://www.coombe.com/coombe_pro_pedal_system.html for 3 years and they really are just the cat's meow. There only moving parts are pedal rotation. The cleats have no springs at all. The pedal/clean combo weighs in as light as anything else. Lowest clearance in the business. And nothing to break.
The only problem is actually getting them. They seem to be made by a couple of guys in a garage in Colorado who would rather be cycling than working. You order via the web and they come. Just not as quickly as you might like.
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Yosemite will still be there when I can make it, which, unfortunately won't be in May. Tooooo busy at work (biggest month actually) in cycling retailing up north here. Gonna make for some late night log-ins for me for a while. Now, when an August-March shoot-out happens, count me there (if its in a warm place, hint).
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - Wayne Gretzky
Cycling, eh? That should pique Patch29's interest.
Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam
http://www.mcneel.com/users/jb/foghorn/ill_shut_up.au
I am rapidly falling in the same boat, the next three weeks are getting super busy, so Yosemite is fading for now. I will most likely have time in July to travel.
I may make it to Chicago towards the end of the year. My brother will be working on his MBA at Northwestern. I will try to get there before it gets to cold to bike.
I have a Surly Long Haul Trucker and my mountain bike is a Rock Lobster, just waiting to get some dry days to take it on some of the local trails. If I don't go to school I may live off my bike for a while.
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Paddles, eh? With all the Mod.'s going to Yosemite, I am safer staying put here in the midwest. Now... pedals I can deal with. Paddles I'm not so sure.
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - Wayne Gretzky
this:
or this:
kind of a lose-lose situation...
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Welcome to the friendly forums of dgrin, David
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so there.
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I have every confidence that you'll keep this place running while the rest of us are off playing at Yosemite
BTW, we only wear the fez on solemn occassions, like initiations :lol
Good to have you here David
Steve
So, who else is staying back to mind this store in May? Or does my name get to appear as a temp. mod. in all the forums? GULP! :help
Thanks for the Fez hat tip, Steve. It still has yet to arrive. :cry
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - Wayne Gretzky
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Well, to each his own, but I've been using these
http://www.coombe.com/coombe_pro_pedal_system.html for 3 years and they really are just the cat's meow. There only moving parts are pedal rotation. The cleats have no springs at all. The pedal/clean combo weighs in as light as anything else. Lowest clearance in the business. And nothing to break.
The only problem is actually getting them. They seem to be made by a couple of guys in a garage in Colorado who would rather be cycling than working. You order via the web and they come. Just not as quickly as you might like.
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David has always been a good contributor wherever his presence has been made.
Break out the cone of silence........
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