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Cycling Season starts today.
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billy508	Mar 4 2012, 09:36 AM Post #1
billy508 Posts: 3,383 Group: Valued Members Member #192 Joined: Nov 10, 2008 Location Pensacola Florida Year/Make/Model 93 geo metro vert, 1980 f150 truck,	Today with the start of the Paris-Nice begins the European cycling season. Here is a link that works pretty well. Live coverage starts early in the AM so that might be a issue with day workers. Check it out if you have a chance. You might like it. http://www.procyclinglive.com/livestream/#



Bad Bent	Mar 4 2012, 02:32 PM Post #2
Facetious Educated Donkey Posts: 14,799 Group: Moderator Member #334 Joined: Dec 26, 2008 Location Native of SoCal, in Moscow, Idaho Year/Make/Model 1991 and 1996 Geo Metros	Missed it but thanks for the heads up, billy508. Need to rearrange my bookmarks now.



dayle1960	Mar 4 2012, 04:24 PM Post #3
Fastest Hampster EVER Posts: 8,139 Group: Tech Certified Member #831 Joined: Jun 3, 2009 Location Bella Vista, Arkansas Year/Make/Model 1996 Geo Metro 3 cyl 5spd	TDF is around July 4, correct? Can't wait for it to start again.



Jittney	Mar 4 2012, 07:07 PM Post #4
Anchorage 92 XFi Posts: 3,055 Group: Valued Members Member #1,658 Joined: Jan 9, 2010	I chuckled when I saw the title of this thread....cycling season opened. I had to check the Paris-Nice times; 9 km/11 min! Up here roads are clogged with snow, buses are late, snowplows push the street snow onto sidewalks It's been a month and a half of bus, hike and bike. One day it was faster to drag the bike through the snow, over a fence, & through a shoulder high drift rather than backtrack again. I keep trying to find a faster route Looking out my front window...the sprint turbo windshield is visible behind the snowbank. UPS says the sprint turbo distributor is in town...should be delivered tomorrow. I'm gonna miss the adventure of biking if I go back to using my car.



billy508	Mar 4 2012, 07:35 PM Post #5
billy508 Posts: 3,383 Group: Valued Members Member #192 Joined: Nov 10, 2008 Location Pensacola Florida Year/Make/Model 93 geo metro vert, 1980 f150 truck,	I will hold my gripe about the wind until another time. That is some serious snow. We had snow like that when I was stationed in Chitose Japan. You did not miss much today. Time trails today. This years routes is supposed to be pretty hard. I am in awe of all the old Castles and Bell towers and such. I just can not seem to wrap my head around how they built them. The skill of the caftsman had to be unreal. Looking forward to the season. The scenery is so great that sometimes the race is secondary.



billy508	Mar 4 2012, 07:59 PM Post #6
billy508 Posts: 3,383 Group: Valued Members Member #192 Joined: Nov 10, 2008 Location Pensacola Florida Year/Make/Model 93 geo metro vert, 1980 f150 truck,	Some of you might like these cycling cartoons. some of them are pretty funny, more so if you ride. http://www.yehudamoon.com/index.php?date=2011-09-29



Old Man	Mar 4 2012, 09:06 PM Post #7
Posts: 9,836 Group: Valued Members Member #5,381 Joined: May 3, 2011 Location Bay Center, Washington on the Coast Year/Make/Model 1991 Geo Metro Convertible and 1990 XFI	billy508 Mar 4 2012, 07:35 PM I am in awe of all the old Castles and Bell towers and such. I just can not seem to wrap my head around how they built them. The skill of the caftsman had to be unreal. those old castles etc were usually constructed by slaves or indentured servants. Its amazing how the craftmanship gets to be perfect after watching another worker who did a poor job lose his head.



dayle1960	Mar 7 2012, 08:08 PM Post #8
Fastest Hampster EVER Posts: 8,139 Group: Tech Certified Member #831 Joined: Jun 3, 2009 Location Bella Vista, Arkansas Year/Make/Model 1996 Geo Metro 3 cyl 5spd	Old Man Mar 4 2012, 09:06 PM billy508 Mar 4 2012, 07:35 PM I am in awe of all the old Castles and Bell towers and such. I just can not seem to wrap my head around how they built them. The skill of the caftsman had to be unreal. those old castles etc were usually constructed by slaves or indentured servants. Its amazing how the craftmanship gets to be perfect after watching another worker who did a poor job lose his head. I'm shocked Old Man, the masters of the slaves would NEVER treat their slaves so inhumanely. I bet after a good day of work the slaves would sit around the fire and talk about the wonderful day they experienced. The master probably walked around the guys sitting down and offered them some lemonade and tea crumpets as a sign of loyalty and compensation. I bet life in the old world was a great time. Huge castles to live in and pretty ladies to dream about. AHHHHHH, to yearn for the good old days.



Bad Bent	Mar 7 2012, 08:29 PM Post #9
Facetious Educated Donkey Posts: 14,799 Group: Moderator Member #334 Joined: Dec 26, 2008 Location Native of SoCal, in Moscow, Idaho Year/Make/Model 1991 and 1996 Geo Metros



billy508	Mar 7 2012, 08:39 PM Post #10
billy508 Posts: 3,383 Group: Valued Members Member #192 Joined: Nov 10, 2008 Location Pensacola Florida Year/Make/Model 93 geo metro vert, 1980 f150 truck,	Slaves were used a lot by the Romans but many of the Craftsman, like Master Masons lived ok. There were paid and some even formed unions or guilds. You really did not want to kill the guy laying out the arch in a big Castle or Cathedral. In general, medieval buildings were built by paid workers. Unskilled work was done by labourers paid by the day. Skilled craftsmen served apprenticeships or learned their trade from their parents. It is not clear how many women were members of a guild holding a monopoly on a particular trade in a defined area (usually within the town walls). Towns were in general very small by modern standards and dominated by the dwellings of a small number of rich nobles or merchants, and by cathedrals and churches. Tirreno-Adriatico... Team time trails Today At one time they were going over 64k(40 mph) March 7, Stage 1: San Vincenzo - Donoratico (TTT) 16.9km GreenEdge wins stage 1 team time trails L Lotto-Belisol in the Tirreno-Adriatico team time trial… … … Team Sky was fourth fastest Team Sky was fourth fastest… Marco Pinotti points the way for BMC. Previous Page 1 of 8 Next The GreenEdge Cycling Team has won its first race on European soil in dominating fashion as the Australian ProTour squad claimed victory in the first stage at Tirreno-Adriatico. GreenEdge completed the 16.9km team time trial in 18:41, 17 seconds faster than runner-up RadioShack-Nissan which was anchored by time trial stalwart Fabian Cancellara. Garmin-Barracuda, which had set the early benchmark, finished fractions of a second behind RadioShack-Nissan for third place. Team Sky's effort garnered the British ProTour squad a fourth place finish, 23 seconds down, while Astana rounded out the top five at 30 seconds. GreenEdge's Matt Goss led the team across the finish line and the 25-year-old Australian earned the first leader's jersey as well as a morale boost 10 days prior to defending his Milan-Sanremo title. Edited by billy508, Mar 7 2012, 08:44 PM.



snowfish	Mar 7 2012, 09:04 PM Post #11
Basic GearHead Posts: 5,754 Group: Tech Certified Member #506 Joined: Feb 23, 2009 Location Brainerd Minnesota Year/Make/Model 1991 Xfi Sport	Thanks for the heads up for the roadies. We go year around.



billy508	Mar 7 2012, 10:15 PM Post #12
billy508 Posts: 3,383 Group: Valued Members Member #192 Joined: Nov 10, 2008 Location Pensacola Florida Year/Make/Model 93 geo metro vert, 1980 f150 truck,	Wow!!! Thats some big tires!! What size?



billy508	Mar 8 2012, 01:03 PM Post #13
billy508 Posts: 3,383 Group: Valued Members Member #192 Joined: Nov 10, 2008 Location Pensacola Florida Year/Make/Model 93 geo metro vert, 1980 f150 truck,	Stage 2Thursday, March 8 2012 San Vincenzo - Indicatore 230 km 136 Miles Report: Mark Cavendish takes sprint victory in Indicatore, Photos Tomorrow at 8am at procyclinglive.com



Coche Blanco	Mar 8 2012, 02:05 PM Post #14
Troll Certified Posts: 21,983 Group: Valued Members Member #982 Joined: Jul 15, 2009 Location North Alabama Year/Make/Model 1993 3/5	Those tires are huge. haha



snowfish	Mar 8 2012, 03:17 PM Post #15
Basic GearHead Posts: 5,754 Group: Tech Certified Member #506 Joined: Feb 23, 2009 Location Brainerd Minnesota Year/Make/Model 1991 Xfi Sport	billy508 Mar 7 2012, 10:15 PM Wow!!! Thats some big tires!! What size? 26 x 4.7. They're huge! http://salsacycles.com/bikes/mukluk/



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