Date Tonight by Bicycle!

oilfreeandhappy said:

My wife and I went out to dinner at an Ethiopian restaurant tonight. We
rode our bikes. She's riding more and more nowadays! Anybody else
dating with bicycles? Wife or unmarried?

I do rather like riding the tandem out for a date with my wife. Though
we're having a dreadful time at the moment finding a new sitter since
our last one became unavailable. Of course, it doesn't help that my
work is ruining my weekends at the moment. Huzzah, technology. [1]

[1] Specifically mobile phones [2] and VPN.
[2] Hah! Talk about hoist on ones own petard.

--
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In the beginning there was data. The data was without form and
null, and darkness was upon the face of the console; and the Spirit of
IBM was moving over the face of the market. And DEC said, "Let there
be registers"; and there were registers. And DEC saw that they
carried; and DEC separated the data from the instructions. DEC called
the data Stack, and the instructions they called Code. And there was
evening and there was morning, one interrupt.
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oilfreeandhappy said:

Anybody else
dating with bicycles? Wife or unmarried?

If she's not on a bike, she's not on my radar.

All my dates are on bicycles. We usually meet somehwere and ride
somehwere else.

Cycling is a great social lubricant.
--
zk

Patsy Snoot said:

If she's not on a bike, she's not on my radar.

All my dates are on bicycles. We usually meet somehwere and ride
somehwere else.

Cycling is a great social lubricant.

With a face like yours, she's better off looking at your ass.

(Not that she'll be able to make the di-STINK-shun.)

Bill "add it to your BS file, Putzster" S.

oilfreeandhappy said:

My wife and I went out to dinner at an Ethiopian restaurant tonight. We
rode our bikes. She's riding more and more nowadays! Anybody else
dating with bicycles? Wife or unmarried?

With our youngest finally old enough to be left alone, my wife and I are
back doing what we did before marriage -- cycle dating. I don't think
there's anything nicer than a summer evening's ride. Today, Father's
Day, the plan is for the four of us to do a 20 mile ride along the river
, stopping for lunch at the midpoint (downtown).

<[email hidden]> wrote: Aw, c'mon, I know you guys are kidding! No
women want to go on a date on bicycles! (clip)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Folsom, you should take up writing as a career. You have such a vivid
imagination, and the ability to imitate the sytle and thinking of an idiot.
However, I wonder how versatile you are. Can you write intelligent material
also?

folson said:

Aw, c'mon, I know you guys are kidding! No women want to go on a date
on bicycles! ...

Must be true, 'cuz there's very few gals on cyclingsingles.com.

HTH

--Karen D.
SWF, Grand Rapids Mich...

On 18 Jun 2006 08:26:52 -0700, [email hidden] wrote, in part:

Quoted message said:

Aw, c'mon, I know you guys are kidding! No women want to go on a date
on bicycles! All they want is a guy with lots of money and a fancy new
car. Also, they want the guy to buy THEM a fancy new car. And if you
do, then they dump your ass and take off with the car.

\snip

By investing in only other "serious" cyclists one circumvents the
entire media induced stupidity you've described.

It certainly reduces the playing field but it also increases the
scoring opportunities.

.. . . as in somebody who can actually maintain an interesting
conversation by not mentioning automobiles or television or
pharmaceutical dependency.
--
zk

Quoted message said:

Aw, c'mon, I know you guys are kidding! No women want to go on a date
on bicycles! All they want is a guy with lots of money and a fancy new
car. Also, they want the guy to buy THEM a fancy new car. And if you
do, then they dump your ass and take off with the car.

----- blah, blah, blah ----

I wonder- have you ever considered the possibility that your low
opinion of half the human race is a reflection on you more than on
them? You seem to have a difficult time finding women that are
interested in *you* for anything other than the material things you can
buy for them. Maybe you should consider celibacy. From what you write
it would seem likely that you already have a good start down that road.

Regards,
Bob Hunt

Bob, I'll bet you're one of those guys who has a fat, ugly wife and is
really defensive about it. Look, pal, if you want to settle for a fat,
ugly wife, that's your business, but I don't, OK?

Quoted message said:

Bob, I'll bet you're one of those guys who has a fat, ugly wife and is
really defensive about it. Look, pal, if you want to settle for a
fat, ugly wife, that's your business, but I don't, OK?

Bob who? What are you talking about? Huh?!?

What a maroon. (That's an expression, in case Frank K. is taking notes.)

oilfreeandhappy <[email hidden]> wrote:
: My wife and I went out to dinner at an Ethiopian restaurant tonight. We
: rode our bikes. She's riding more and more nowadays! Anybody else
: dating with bicycles? Wife or unmarried?

Not really. My husband and I *live* on our bicycles. We brought
up two children with about 15 bicycles and no car.

Now that they have their own families we do most of our riding on
one of our two tandems, although we both still ride solo as well.

We're retired now, but we both bike-commuted to work for many years.
We do almost all shopping by bike, get to restaurants and
entertainment events by bike, ride for pleasure...
--thelma
: ---
: Jim
: http://home.comcast.net/~oil_free_and_happy/index.html

Thelma Lubkin said:

Not really. My husband and I *live* on our bicycles. We brought
up two children with about 15 bicycles and no car.

Now that they have their own families we do most of our riding on
one of our two tandems, although we both still ride solo as well.

We're retired now, but we both bike-commuted to work for many years.
We do almost all shopping by bike, get to restaurants and
entertainment events by bike, ride for pleasure...
--thelma

WTG Thelma. My congrats to you and your husband!
---
Jim
http://home.comcast.net/~oil_free_and_happy/index.html

Sorni said:

[email hidden] wrote:

Quoted message said:

What a maroon. (That's an expression, in case Frank K. is taking notes.)

Made famous by Bugs Bunny ... correct?

Middle D said:

On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 15:29:43 GMT, "Sorni"
<[email hidden]> wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

What a maroon. (That's an expression, in case Frank K. is taking
notes.)

Quoted message said:

Made famous by Bugs Bunny ... correct?

You, sir, are correct. (Frank called it "verifying the source" LOL )

Zoot Katz said:

By investing in only other "serious" cyclists one circumvents the
entire media induced stupidity you've described.

It certainly reduces the playing field but it also increases the
scoring opportunities.

. . . as in somebody who can actually maintain an interesting
conversation by not mentioning automobiles or television or
pharmaceutical dependency.

My new benchmark: the "Greg LeMond handlebar bag" test. (Saw one for
sale at a bike flea market, and IMHO this is hilarious.)

Wish I'd bought it.

--Karen D.

"Bob" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Maybe you should consider celibacy.

So, the pope dies and goes to heaven. He asks St. Peter if he could read the
original Bible, as God wrote it. St. Peter leads him to a room with
perfectly preserved scrolls. The pope starts to read. Suddenly he turns red,
jumps up and yells "It's a typo! It says CELEBRATE, not celibate!"

Whereupon he dies, and is reincarnated as a rabbit.

"Veloise" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

My new benchmark: the "Greg LeMond handlebar bag" test. (Saw one for
sale at a bike flea market, and IMHO this is hilarious.)

Wish I'd bought it.

Lemond had a line of low-quality gear sold through Target for a while.

Mike said:

Quoted message said:

..."Greg LeMond handlebar bag" test.

Quoted message said:

Lemond had a line of low-quality gear sold through Target for a while.

That's what this was, but now it's vintage. And I didn't get one when
they were new in the stores.

Told sis (non-rider) about it. "So???" (Her claim to fame: she joined
the medical staff of U-C Davis Berkeley shortly after their famous
patient healed up, leaving lots of signed posters for their walls. So
she knows who GLM is.)

Told bike club about it. They all fell over laughing. No explanation
needed.

HTH

--Karen D.

Mike said:

Quoted message said:

..."Greg LeMond handlebar bag" test.

Quoted message said:

Lemond had a line of low-quality gear sold through Target for a while.

That's what this was, but now it's vintage. And I didn't get one when
they were new in the stores.

Told sis (non-rider) about it. "So???" (Her claim to fame: she joined
the medical staff of U-C Davis Berkeley shortly after their famous
patient healed up, leaving lots of signed posters for their walls. So
she knows who GLM is.)

Told bike club about it. They all fell over laughing. No explanation
needed.

HTH

--Karen D.