Old Plank Trail?

[Quillfred]

Yikes Lise -

"Two of the guys were named Mario. I didn't want to date either Mario. But both Marios talked about this trail as great for biking. I don't want to ask either Mario, for obvious reasons!"

They sound like they could be "Stepford Husbands"

Internet dating isn't all bad. We met that way in 1999, although it turned out that her dad had been a cherished patient of mine and he had introduced us a couple years earlier.

Q

[KnottedYet]

That's a nice story. Especially that you actually met before then, and you knew her dad!

My brother met his wife through the internet.

I met mine because I'm a nurse-magnet. (kinda like a babe-magnet, only different ) I was dating a nurse, and through her I met her friend who was a nurse. A few months after all that ended the friend said she had to introduce me her other friend (a nurse) because I "would love her." Dragged my heels, hung out with my 6 or 7 nurse pals, and one day voi-la, I met the s.o. And my friend was right.

Sometimes I'd really like to trade her in on a lower-maintanence model, but that's real life.

[Trek420]

I think there are Mario's on the web and in real life and wonderful people both locations too...the online dating thing? Just another way to meet.

Isn't it funny trying to meet someone who'll log of and go outside....on the internet? For me it's ranged from the real nice gal that there isn't the chemistry with but we're glad we met to the infamous "bike date from heck".

When my LBS built my bike we debated about the wheels, I was thinking Mavic Open Sup Pro's (sp?) like I had before on the Trek he said I should get Rolf.

"Why?" I asked. He jested "I don't know what women like, but chicks dig these wheels".

Trouble is the "chicks" who dig the wheels turn out to bat for the other team or bat for my team but spoken for.

Maybe I need new wheels.

[KnottedYet]

Is there a Different Spokes riding group near you? I gotta get involved with the one here in Seattle. I've got a friend (not a nurse) and her partner (also not a nurse) who just love it.

[Trek420]

Yes, there's a Different Spokes club here. I've ridden a couple of their rides. I ride to ride, also ride to eat

If I meet or get to know someone out there, it's wonderful but not a social much less single thing to me.

As far as clubs go I prefer the Velogirls and/or Lunachix or a good ol' TE ride because of the emphasis on safety. There's almost always a talk before the ride, they teach ride skills before after & during the ride...

I'll give DS another chance but the two rides I went on with them, no safety message, lots of passing on the right, blowing though stop signs....funny thing the last time I rode with them:

There was a DS women only ride and on Alameda Creek Trail last season I think and I thought, hey, I'll go, I like ACT, it's nearby, what's not to like?

So we meet up, no safety stuff, ride out, I'll admit I ran some stop signs gingerly just to keep up then we get on the trail. Lots of riding two abreast, chatting along the blind turns.

I got in behind a couple of gals, newer rider along with a gal on a Trek Project One riding side by side. Those of you who know me I'm not fast but I did not want to be behind the debris if they hit a rider around a bend. So I clear my throat (subtle is my middle name) no response, call out "passing on your left" ...nothin'....try it again, ah! Success, they figure out who drops back and I pass.

As I did "newer rider" starts to sprint after me and I hear Project One gal say "nah, you don't want that".

Alrighty, if you're lurking, what did that mean?

She must know about my hat collection ;-)

[Duck on Wheels]

So I clear my throat (subtle is my middle name) no response, call out "passing on your left" ...nothin'....try it again, ah! Success, they figure out who drops back and I pass.

As I did "newer rider" starts to sprint after me and I hear Project One gal say "nah, you don't want that".

Alrighty, if you're lurking, what did that mean?

She must know about my hat collection ;-)

Maybe the gal with the advice just thought that, as a biker, you were out of the other gal's league. I mean ... you do have one very fast-lookin' bike! And you did call out "passing on your left" like a pro, and then pass them. So maybe advice gal figured you were just too good a biker for newbie gal there.

Oooooorrrrr ... maybe advice gal wanted newbie gal to stay back with her.

So next time, stay back and call out "Hi! How 'bout after the ride, wanna come home and see my hat collection?"

[Trek420]

bikeless in WI "next time, stay back and call out "Hi! How 'bout after the ride, wanna come home and see my hat collection?"

...or etchings? Just kidding. This is probably why I'm single, I'd rather pass than make passes