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Super Jenius
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OK, I'm still near the rails, waving at where this thread has wound up, but my $.02.
I rode in Brooklyn and Manhattan for 5 years, at just about any time between dawn and dusk. I felt safer riding there than I do out on country back roads. The statistics are what they are, but maybe it was b/c I was more alert, or drivers in the chaos that is NYC/Metro are more attuned to cyclists and traffic and pedestrians, etc. Speaking of distractions, yes I wore spandex shorts (with other shorts over them) and garishly colored/designed tops. I'd rather have some driver say "look at the homo" than "officer, I swear I never saw him." Most of the gear is sized for european (read: effeminate) men, so it there wasn't much stuff on the 6'5" 255 lb "rack". But, brother, when I wore garish, I wore an acre of it! OTOH, I usually rode/ride solo, as I can't deal with that insufferable tendency of most cyclists to claim title to some moral high ground unattainable by the rest of the world. And an Apple-owning cyclist... fuhgeddaboutit.  JP
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I'm going home and poke out my eyes.
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07-08-2008, 12:27 PM
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drag racing the short bus
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One time during a training ride, a Chinese girl in her late twenties started talking to me from the open window of her Mercedes. She ended up being a surgeon, living in an apartment in Beverly Hills, and having skin which smelled like vanilla. She told me, "You can't keep up with me. Not in those cute tight clothes and on that bicycle." Well, I did. That's how I found out she was a surgeon, lived in Beverly Hills and smelled like vanilla.
Now, what was it you guys were saying about guys in spandex on bicycles? 
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least common denominator
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You can have my bicycle...
When you pry it from... My cold, dead, hands...
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A Man of Wealth and Taste
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NO PROBLAMO...just dress up in that ******ity little suit of yours...
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least common denominator
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This good sir is the only "******ity little suit" I wear thank you very much!
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07-08-2008, 01:34 PM
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Friends don't let friends wear spandex!
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A Man of Wealth and Taste
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Better not let MIke Tyson see you in that suit....
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Got to ride a full fendered Raleigh bike - yellow cabs pass in fear, gypsie cabs hide..
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07-08-2008, 01:51 PM
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Unfair and Unbalanced
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1/2 of the children that drown, under the age of 4, do so in toilets & buckets. How much longer can we allow this carnage?
Ban toilets! Outlaw buckets!
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Ban underage children.
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needless deaths? I suppose if they didn't die on bicycles they'd live forever.
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It's dangerous, they say. If I ride, I stay in shape, live longer, and maybe get run over. Either way, I die happy. If I don't ride, I get fat and lazy, like most Americans, and am ensured a shorter life. Strokes different. I'll take ******y shorts any day.
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From a 80s poster in the garage, the best I can do. Great poster in real life, Fat Bottom Girls. Look fast, might get deleted. NO SPANDEX
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Spandex is a safety device....see if you can follow along. If you look at something you'll hit it. If you see a guy in spandex, you'll look away...presumably towards the road.
 I wear that stuff it's not *that* comfortable. But, ever ride a bike in boxers and cargo pants? Can you say Chafing? I will not post a photo. FWIW, I don't understand why fat straight desk jockeys seem to have such a problem with how people dress. Whenever I see a guy out riding, I wish I wasn't cruising with the a/c on to eat dinner and veg in front of the PC after a long day. I wish I had time energy to ride after work.
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07-08-2008, 07:23 PM
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drag racing the short bus
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And some guys get paid millions to wear spandex...
 Like this bloke, Lance what's-his-name...
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