mid america by bicycle

Started by willy, June 5, 2007 02:31 AM

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willy

June 5, 2007 02:31 AM
me and my dad are going across the country (from Albuquerque, NM to sauk city, WI) via bicycle. we're leaving wednsday, so please, wish us luck. Visit our blog if you want andytedwright.blogspot.com. we'll be updating evrey time we hit a place with wi-fi, so mabye not often, mabye very often, I don't know how many backwater towns have wireless... anyways, please do see it, it'll probably take about a month, so, yeah check it out

Necronomitr0n

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June 5, 2007 02:43 PM
I hope that all goes well.
<+fawx> im trying to animate a dick coming out of a toaster how do i go on about doing this
<~rtil> well fawx what you would do is delete the fla and do something productive instead
<+ansel> i lure children into my van with candy and then i read them passages from 'the origin of species'
<%ropesnake> billy con ends with billy raping his cat
<+billymonks> FUCK YOU BUG
<~rtil> ya one time i gave this hobo some cat food and he ate it like the animal he is it pleased me

rtil

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June 5, 2007 06:24 PM
sounds like death to me but i'm sure you're doing it because you love it
well have a rip roarin' good time

willy

#3
June 5, 2007 08:17 PM
Quote from: rtilsounds like death to me but i'm sure you're doing it because you love it
well have a rip roarin' good time


yeah, my dad rode his bike a lot in utah (damn I wish we still lived there) and once after riding a while he came across a rancher. when he explained to him what he was doing, the rancher gave him a funny look, and suggested that he might as well close himself up in a closet and hit himself on the head with a hammer.

I love getting funny looks.

thanks for the good luck.

Animegamer

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June 6, 2007 04:07 PM
i prefer driving a car

willy

#5
June 6, 2007 04:44 PM
they are usually less trouble, because, even driving a delorean, parts are less troublesome to find.  as you may be able to tell from me posting this, we've been postponed. last night, dad and I were taking our fully loaded bikes out for a spin, and guess what...his shifters broke. they were the fancy kind that is built into the brake lever, and they were cheap to begin with. Add about 10 years of commuting on that bike, and you have a broken shifter the night before departure. so we decided to get cheaper, and much more reliable, bar-end shifters. but with bar end shifters, you need long pull brake levers, and those are really hard to find for cantilever brakes. we figure that if we can't get them from a wholesale store in santa fe, or any other store here in ABQ, we may as well swich our brakes as well, so we're also swiching our brakes to V-brakes so that we can put in brake levers, and bar end shifters.

what a pain in the ass.

Animegamer

#6
June 6, 2007 09:29 PM
you can buy mountain bikes for like $89- $99 at walmart

I still have my old roadmaster mountain climber I used to ride as a kid... although I hardly ride it anymore.

willy

#7
June 21, 2007 08:15 PM
wal mart bikes SUCK

bad

and the shifters arent the kind we need, nor are the brakes

but no matter.

we're in a library in iowa right now, good stuff. Iowa is our last state, we've got about 300 miles to go, then we're there.

Animegamer

#8
June 24, 2007 06:01 AM
ive always thought about driving route 66
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