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This happened today in the women’s Amstel Gold race in the Netherlands. The almost winner posted up with 20m to go and got second by less than half a wheel. Happens more often than it should in cycling.

Haven’t watched the vid but based on the title, weapons and uniforms are from 40 yrs in the future. Kind of like all the ’92 Winchesters that show up in westerns set in the 1870s

Happy Valentines Day

Personal all time favorite 😍

OMG…. Imagine that you have to tell all your buddies in the afterlife you got yeeted by a crop duster! Dusty Crophopper has gone SOG!

Looks like Golum got into a bag of edibles.

I’m gonna take Cooper off ignore and put you f’rs on it… and here I thought bicycles and hp ratings for boats was bad.

Gun Jesus debunks….

I grew up on the GA coast. Old forts and battle sites from the Revolutionary War and Confederate Forts were not strange to me. Standing on the small boat dock in the middle of Battleship Row on Ford Island gave me chills. Gettysburg I avoided most of my life. Accidentally riding my Harley...

If you have ever worked with the RRs this would not surprise you in the least. 😂

Naaaa…. It’s this week’s bicycle thread

When I was at Diablo the whole central coast Pismo, Arroyo Grande all the way up to Moro Bay would be socked in, but for whatever reason the atmospherics would leave Avila Beach which is pretty much in the middle of that stretch as the one sunny spot on the coast.

The California current comes down from Alaska. The ocean off of the coast of Cali is cold (ever Notice all the surfers there are in wet suits and nobody is in the water at the beaches?) the result is a fog layer just offshore over the water called the Marine Layer. When the inland valley...

Some of you may have seen this, some of it may be rubbish, and I know it’s old. In any case I don’t have the experience to know, but even if part of it’s correct it’s impressive. Enjoy: * One Top Fuel dragster 500 cubic-inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower than the first 4 rows at the...

I’m pretty close to that with a little less zen. Most of the other drivers are asses stressing over 30 seconds difference in arrival time. I run the speed limit to +5. I get better mileage that way. Leave early enough to get there and don’t stress.