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  1. 08-01-2009, 03:47 PM #1
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    Happy Birthday! Nice bike and it looks like you enjoyed riding it already.
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  2. 08-01-2009, 04:18 PM #2
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    You got a muddy bike?? Man. That's just RUDE!
    Just kiddin'.
    Sweet ride.
    Happy birthday!
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  3. 08-01-2009, 04:19 PM #3
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    Happy birthday to you, indeed.
    Umm... those are some nice calves!!
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  4. 08-01-2009, 05:34 PM #4
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    Happy Birthday! Looks like you spent it right
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  5. 08-01-2009, 06:16 PM #5
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    Are those your calf muscles? Holy cow!

    Happy birthday!

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  6. 08-01-2009, 07:30 PM #6
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    Good 'n Dirty. The way she should be Congrats.
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  7. 08-01-2009, 11:37 PM #7
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    I did get a little help from some lucky shade in defining my calves

    So this is my first "real" mtb. It has a cute story: my dh bought it off a woman who had gotten all fired up at work about riding Birken with her colleagues, a very popular mtb event, 93 km long. They'd gotten a good deal on bikes, she trained 100 km altogether, did Birken, her knees hurt and she didn't want to ride anymore...
    I've had a rigid mtb for years and mostly used it for commuting and riding on gravel roads. I've tried trails a few times, but mostly just got mightily frustrated at being bounced off roots, rocks and the like. But when this lovely thing turned up on my doorstep I had to go try it on a real mtb trail

    Lesson 1: racing pedals (ie. one-sided) are useless on a trail, unless you plan on never unclipping.

    Lesson 2: mud slows you down. A lot. I actually learned that after a few tries.

    Lesson 3: the nice smooth surface of a large puddle doesn't mean the bottom of it is equally nice and smooth... I tried just charging through a calf-deep puddle to avoid the gnarly root-mess on one side, and ended up getting my bike stuck in the very middle, tipping over and hitting a submerged rock with my knee.
    I even managed to do it on the way back too
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  8. 08-02-2009, 02:59 AM #8
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    Happy Belated Birthday!

    What a perfect present. ENJOY!

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  9. 08-02-2009, 08:08 AM #9
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    Quote Originally Posted by lph View Post
    Lesson 3: the nice smooth surface of a large puddle doesn't mean the bottom of it is equally nice and smooth...
    As this fellow learned the hard way:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02LO9EPtCz8
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