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  1. 6am trainer rides...

    It does your heart and soul some good...

    - CA-G can't mountain bike, the trails are like thick soup...

    Canadian Girls Kick Ass!

  2. "Carla A-G" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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    6am trainer rides...

    It does your heart and soul some good...

    - CA-G can't mountain bike, the trails are like thick soup...

    Canadian Girls Kick Ass!

    There is oxygen at 6am? <shiver> You go girl!

  3. "Carla A-G" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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    6am trainer rides...

    It does your heart and soul some good...

    Maybe the heart (physiologically) part I ncan buy, but "soul" on a trainer?

    JD

  4. "JD" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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    Maybe the heart (physiologically) part I ncan buy, but "soul" on a


    trainer?

    Its all in the mind...

    - CA-G

    Canadian Girls Kick Ass!

  5. JD said:

    "Carla A-G" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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    6am trainer rides...

    It does your heart and soul some good...

    Maybe the heart (physiologically) part I ncan buy, but "soul" on a trainer?

    JD

    Sure, It takes soul and it's character building too.

    (7 am spin rides)

    Penny

  6. Penny S. said:
    JD said:

    "Carla A-G" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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    6am trainer rides...

    It does your heart and soul some good...

    Maybe the heart (physiologically) part I ncan buy, but "soul" on a trainer?

    JD

    Sure, It takes soul and it's character building too.

    (7 am spin rides)

    And riding the 9.8 miles to work on the single-speed outfitted w/ slicks.... Gets you pumped up for
    the day like _nothing_ else I know of (No Rimmer, not even "that" !-)

    Good thing I have a "spare" car to leave at each end for the days I don't want to ride both ways.

  7. "Penny S." <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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    JD said:

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    6am trainer rides...

    It does your heart and soul some good...

    Maybe the heart (physiologically) part I ncan buy, but "soul" on a trainer?

    JD

    Sure, It takes soul and it's character building too.

    (7 am spin rides)

    Penny


    I don't know, prehaps the character building part are 6:00am hair fashions.

    (6am and again at 8:30am, M, W & F, its all I got ... right now)
    --
    Craig Brossman, Durango Colorado

  8. Craig Brossman said:

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    I don't know, prehaps the character building part are 6:00am hair fashions.

    (6am and again at 8:30am, M, W & F, its all I got ... right now)

    It's character building to just get out out bed and go to a frickin' exercise class first thing in
    the morning.

    penny

  9. "Carla A-G" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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    6am trainer rides...

    It does your heart and soul some good...

    - CA-G can't mountain bike, the trails are like thick soup...

    Canadian Girls Kick Ass!

    Yeah, I guess. It's always the hardest activities that they say build character. Or whatever.

    I used to spin over the winter 4 days/week at 5am. Everybody said I was crazy. OK, go on, so what's
    the point?

    P

  10. "Carla A-G" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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    6am trainer rides...

    WEIRDO! I do 6am rides because I need to get to work at that time, but I sure wouldn't be up at that
    time to train! I'd vastly prefer an early evening/dusk ride for training.

    Trentus

  11. "Trentus" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    "Carla A-G" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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    6am trainer rides...

    WEIRDO! I do 6am rides because I need to get to work at that time, but I sure wouldn't be up at
    that time to train! I'd vastly prefer an early evening/dusk ride for training.

    Trentus

    Ooops, missed the fact that that was "trainer" not "training" Now you're even more of a weirdo. If
    you must ride - at any hour - do it on a real bike in real terrain - road or dirt whichever you
    prefer, but do it for real.

    like the real thing.

    Trentus

  12. "Trentus" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Ooops, missed the fact that that was "trainer" not "training" Now you're even more of a weirdo. If
    you must ride - at any hour - do it on a real bike in real terrain -


    road

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    or dirt whichever you prefer, but do it for real.

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    like the real thing.

    Guess you missed the whole point. The trails are like thick soup right now. I'd rather ride the
    trainer (and watch tv or listen to music at the same time) than to go out and do damage to the
    trails I love by riding in the mud. The trails have to be given a chance to recover from this
    relatively harsh winter we have been having. Its called using some common sense. We did, however, go
    out for a trials session last night, the weather finally settled a bit.

    And I am not a weirdo...

    - CA-G

    Canadian Girls Kick Ass!

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    Sitting and pedalling a trainner at any time and looking at four walls a ceiling
    and floor Its like spending time in a prison cell and pedaling no where. Get out
    and enjoy sounds, smells,sights,and life. Don't forget that flat tire.

    No riding when the trails are like chunky soup...and I did manage one day to blow out my tire on the
    trainer...

    - CA-G

    Canadian Girls Kick Ass!

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    "Trentus" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    "Carla A-G" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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    6am trainer rides...

    WEIRDO! I do 6am rides because I need to get to work at that time, but I sure wouldn't be up at
    that time to train! I'd vastly prefer an early evening/dusk ride for training.

    Trentus

    Ooops, missed the fact that that was "trainer" not "training" Now you're even more of a weirdo. If
    you must ride - at any hour - do it on a real bike in real terrain -


    road

    Quoted message said:

    or dirt whichever you prefer, but do it for real.

    Quoted message said:

    like the real thing.

    Trentus


    It is just not always possible to do it on a real bike on real terrain. Injuries, schedules, snow,
    rain, kids ... it is just not always possible.
    --
    Craig Brossman, Durango Colorado

  15. "Carla A-G" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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    Guess you missed the whole point. The trails are like thick soup right


    now.

    Quoted message said:

    I'd rather ride the trainer (and watch tv or listen to music at the same time) than to go out and
    do damage to the trails I love by riding in the mud. The trails have to be given a chance to
    recover from this relatively harsh winter we have been having. Its called using some common sense.
    We did, however, go out for a trials session last night, the weather finally settled a bit.

    And I am not a weirdo...

    - CA-G

    Canadian Girls Kick Ass!

    Sorry, didn't know about the mud and the winter. I take back the weirdo. Down Here we are in the
    midst of one of the worst droughts on record, so I've actually forgotten what mud looks like. Our
    trails are so hard baked by sun that you could do donoughts in a tank and wouldn't scratch the
    surface. I appreciate you not riding in the mud, too many doing that gives mtn bikers a bad name.
    Though I do confess to riding in the rain once, it was a trail I'd travelled over 200Kms to get to,
    and then it chose to rain, and since this trail is an unknown, almost never used trail in a tiny
    outback town (1100 population) the damage done by our bikes (the only ones the trail had seen in a
    long time - in fact I suspect the only ones on the trail since the last trip WE made there) would be
    pretty minor, and quickly repaired by nature itself, especially as the trail in question was
    actually a fire trail for fire vehicles, that was marked and mapped and sign posted for bike riders.
    And having travelled so damned far to ride the trail, I wasn't going to turn back unless I felt it
    would harm the trail, and I seriously doubt in the situation that it would, but we did check with
    the trail manager first.

    Mind you the whole idea of riding on a trainer fascinates me, I really want to try that some day to
    see how the balance etc works when the bike isn't actually moving.

    It's like the plan I've heard some person has to build a MASSIVE, and I mean MASSIVE disk TILTED on
    a huge hill, and motorise this disk so that it rotates, and get people to pay to ride "down" the
    upward moving side of the disk so that they have a never ending downhill ride. And if they do ride
    faster than the disk then they get carried back to the top on the other side of the disk. This idea
    intriques me, as in theory the bike isn't actually moving, so do the technicalities change re.
    balance, etc. And what happens when you go over the jumps etc, the bump is actually passing up under
    you, you aren't actually moving, so do you get much air, etc. etc. Also how does moving from the
    inner circle to the outer circle affect the ride, because the outside of a disk moves faster than
    the inside of the disk, so the speed the ground is moving underneath you would change, so your speed
    would need to change, and the only way to do that might actually be to PEDAL down the hill. In the
    winter he intends to make it a never ending downhill ski slope as well. But I suspect the cost to
    build this thing would make it VERY VERY expensive to ride on, and I know one won't be built near
    me, as we have irregular winters, and WAY WAY WAY TOO SMALL a population of bikers who'd ever
    consider paying for riding.

    Trentus

  16. John G <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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    Penny S. said:
    JD said:

    "Carla A-G" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    >6am trainer rides...
    >
    >It does your heart and soul some good...

    Maybe the heart (physiologically) part I ncan buy, but "soul" on a trainer?

    JD

    Sure, It takes soul and it's character building too.

    (7 am spin rides)

    And riding the 9.8 miles to work on the single-speed outfitted w/ slicks.... Gets you pumped up
    for the day like _nothing_ else I know of (No Rimmer, not even "that" !-)

    Heheheh, well, I find that good lovemaking for an hour or so in the morning followed by a 6-7 mile
    3/4 uphill ride to work on the 36lb fat tyred BASE beast gets me completely pumped ',;~}X

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    Good thing I have a "spare" car to leave at each end for the days I don't want to ride both ways.

    Heh, yeah, can see how that would come in handy ',;~}

    Shaun aRe

  17. Shaun Rimmer said:

    Heheheh, well, I find that good lovemaking for an hour or so in the morning by a fat beast gets me
    completely pumped ',;~}X

    Really?

    --
    a.m-b FAQ: t-online.deambfaq.htm

    b.bmx FAQ: t-online.debmx faq.htm

  18. Penny S. <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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    Craig Brossman said:

    "Penny S." <[email hidden]> wrote in message

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    I don't know, prehaps the character building part are 6:00am hair fashions.

    (6am and again at 8:30am, M, W & F, its all I got ... right now)

    It's character building to just get out out bed and go to a frickin' exercise class first thing in
    the morning.

    It's also character building to sit down with a sheet of A4, a pen, a set of dice, and a TSR AD&D
    book or 3.

    Shaun aRe - Half Elf rogue/warriors spec. 2 handed fighting, longsword, are good in a
    tight spot.....

    P.s. - Roll those 18's folks!!!!

  19. bomba <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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    Shaun Rimmer said:

    Heheheh, well, I find that good lovemaking for an hour or so in the


    morning

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    by a fat beast gets me completely pumped ',;~}X

    Really?

    Ooo look everybody! See how the clever man changed the words I wrote to me look bad?

    Shaun aRe - will I ever recover form that one?

  20. "Shaun Rimmer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    It's also character building to sit down with a sheet of A4, a pen, a set


    of

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    dice, and a TSR AD&D book or 3.

    AD&D...that's so 80's...

    - CA-G

    Canadian Girls Kick Ass!

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