On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:39:40 -0500, A Muzi <[email hidden]>
Quoted message said:
Quoted message said:
Quoted message said:
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:51:49 -0700, [email hidden] wrote: > On Aug 16, 2:48 pm, [email hidden] wrote: >> On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:32:20 -0700, "G.T." <[email hidden]> >> wrote: >>> "A Muzi" <[email hidden]> wrote in message >>> news:[email hidden]... >>>>> A Muzi <[email hidden]> wrote: >>>>>> A great piece of writing: >> >>>> http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2007/08/bsnyc-2008-dream-bike-shootou... >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Andrew Muziwww.yellowjersey.org >>>>>> Open every day since 1 April, 1971 >>>> Ozark Bicycle wrote: >>>>> LOL!!! Thanks for posting that. >>>> Could someone younger/smarter explain why my sig.txt shows as 3 lines >>>> usually but sometimes 2? It's a text file with <cr> after each line. >>> I always see 3 lines. >>> Anyway, that article is hilarious. >>> Does anyone else find upward curving top tubes ugly as hell? >>> Greg >> Dear Greg, >> I see two in Andrew's example, getting the post from the Comcast >> server with Forte Free Agent. >> Same thing if you look at the thread through Google Groups with >> Explorer or Firefox--three lines in the original post, but only two in >> when it's quoted in later posts: >> http://groups.google.com/group/rec.bicycles.tech/browse_frm/thread/68... >> Looking at other posts, the same pattern seems to follow--originals >> have three lines, quotation turns them into two lines. >> I've noticed a similar pattern in my posts. I skip a line before >> URL's, as above with the long one and like this short one: >> http://i18.tinypic.com/6baor3k.jpg >> In a moment, I'll reply to this post as see if the URL's lose their >> preceding blank line. If so, then this should illustrate the bug by >> joining Andrew's last name to the URL on the next line: >> Muzihttp://i18.tinypic.com/6baor3k.jpg >> Cheers, >> Carl Fogel- Hide quoted text - >> - Show quoted text - > Test reply through Google Groups . . . Aha! Replying through Google Groups provokes the bug.
Yup. Bikesnob nailed it, again. Personally, I can't wait to pull one of those dream bikes out of a dumpster, and then really put it thru its paces. Who knows, maybe convert it to a 650B fixed-gear porter bike.
BTW, this is a record week for dumpster divers everywhere. See: VIENNA (Reuters) - An 800-year-old, gold-plated crucifix that went missing after being seized by the Nazis has been found in a rubbish skip in Austria, police said. ....... <http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070816/ts_nm/austria_cross_dc>
It's a funny bike. (Literally so named; a TT bike from the early 90s or so with a small front wheel and that goofy top tube.) Nobody wants these for road bikes anymore, so if you're going to ride one, there's no point trying to make it into a sober-sided basic black road machine. Might as well work what you got: make it a fixed gear and give it a color scheme straight from the Preppie Handbook.
I respect purity of vision. Or at least, that's my excuse for buying a yellow Concor saddle for my what-were-they-thinking 80s purple and yellow Dave Moulton:
Very very cool. Congrats Peter on reaching your new rank, "The Iconic Peter Chisholm" (I always wanted to be an archetype. if I grow up.) -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org Open every day since 1 April, 1971
Very very cool. Congrats Peter on reaching your new rank, "The Iconic Peter Chisholm" (I always wanted to be an archetype. if I grow up.)
Love it:
"the Three Commandments of Fixed Gear Riding: 1) Thou Shalt Have Thine Keys Exposed At All Times; 2) Thou Shalt Not Tape Thine Bars; and 3) A Helmet's Okay, But A Brake Is Gay."
Damn, I break all 3 commandments. No keys, I have bar tape, and I have brakes, both of them!
