20,000 bike riders take over small midwest towns

[flynfrog]

These are my pictures from RAGBRAI www.ragbrai.com
yes those are breakfast bloody marrys and yes that is a petting zoo

and Im the one in yellow

[JamesS]

Looks gay.

[Carbon]

Tell me again why this is posted to F1Tech?

[timbo]

I bet this can something to do with some recent threads=)

[flynfrog]

Tell me again why this is posted to F1Tech?

Its in the general chat section. Some of us like to share with freinds on the forum our lives besides love hate of hamilton.

[flynfrog]

I bet this can something to do with some recent threads=)

I didn't take a pic of my demo bike I was it was all carbon like an F1 car how is that for relating to F1.

[Ciro Pabón]

Looks gay.

Believe me, I live in a place where cycling is a "national sport". You can find crazy sport bike riders anywhere every sunday. And, yes, I've noticed that.

Why? Where the gaiety of biking resides? What the hammer? What the chain? I can assure you that there is no way you can avoid looking gay in a bike rider attire.

Simple: your buttocks can be seen from Mars.

Same goes for skiing, btw.

"It feels like I'm wearing nothing at all! Nothing at all! Nothing at all!"


Mmmm. Now that I think about it, that would be a nice name for a rock band: The Visible from Mars Buttocks.

As for why's that posted in F1 Technical, I think I get the point, besides the carbon fiber bike. Following the Simpsons style, Monty Burns would say:

Oh Mother Nature needs a favor does she? Should've thought of that when she was bombarding us with draughts and plagues and poison monkeys! Mother Nature started the war for survival, and now she wants to quit because she's losing? Well I say 'hard cheese'.

It seems to me people in Iowa is ready for a "day without cars".

Commies...



We have something similar in Bogotá (of course! ).

Actually, the 70 miles biking network we bragg about down here, started with collective "bike rides", back in the 80's. Those massive rides happened right after the first colombians won stages in the French Tour, to be precise.

They weren't ride continuously, but those "rides" still survive somehow: nowadays, every Christmas, the Major of Bogotá organizes a bike night when everybody goes out in a bike, roller skates, skateboards, running or walking. The purpose? To watch Christmas lights. It beats having to stand in line, honking in a traffic jam.

We do the same thing every Sunday, from 7 am to 2 pm: here you have a video, just in case. As the guy that filmed it says: "Watch this video and tell me you don’t want something like this in your town"

http://www.streetfilms.org/archives/ciclovia/

[modbaraban]

Mmmmm. The reason I reported this thread the very day it appeared is simple. If one very very very odd day I go to F1Technical forums and search for men in tight pants sipping through a straw, I'd look it the 'off topic' section unless I'd require these men to be F1 drivers

[Ted68]

So maybe it should be in "off topic" but it is too cool. You guys definitely have our "Smog to Surf" annual bike ride beat! My company sponsored the run in the late '90's when my friend, and originator of the run, Larry Pim, still organized it before the Riverside Bicycle Club took over in '03. I also tended bar. No way your gettin' me in one of those outfits...ever!

Nice post!

http://www.riversidebicycleclub.org/pho ... ctures.htm

[flynfrog]

It seems to me people in Iowa is ready for a "day without cars".

Commies...

Its a week without cars. not just a day. Its been going on for 30+ years or so. Most of the towns we go through have a population of 300 or now put 20,000 cyclist in there and its one giant party.

As for the spandex my ass looks amazing in it PM me for pictures.

[flynfrog]

Mmmmm. The reason I reported this thread the very day it appeared is simple. If one very very very odd day I go to F1Technical forums and search for men in tight pants sipping through a straw, I'd look it the 'off topic' section unless I'd require these men to be F1 drivers

my mistake I was thinking general chat was Off topic I didn't scroll far enough when making the thread