Comments on: The Hypothetical Racer Reveals Himself

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 03:27:26 +0000

I thought it might be Rocky, only because Rocky is the only other blogger who I know that you (FC) know, if you know what i mean… my reading of bike blogs is limited to FC, Big Guy and Big Mike. I seldem commet here since I am grammar challegned and dsylexic… and FC scare me as much as my ninth grade english teacherand her red pen did. I was hoping it would be Rocky since I miss the FC family blogs that have stopped in the last 6 months. Very good tale Rocky, Great editing FC and I enjoyed both of your tales.

By: Unknown

Unknown — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 00:25:24 +0000

Good Job, Rocky. good job on the cool family, too. And good job on the Forester, lastly.

-pleiades

By: barry1021

barry1021 — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:36:23 +0000

FC

1. Well apparently KeepyerBag knew based on "mango slices dusted with paprika." I think EVERYONE knew and was too embarrassed for you to call you on it.
2. Sometimes we roadies forget how tuff an MTB century is, especially when you make most rides look easy.
3. Hmm. It’s actually "when you say that Rocky writes better than I (do)", not "me". You were the one talking about editing skills, LOL. I feel like Al M.
4. No. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

Hey Rocky—Francis?????
B21

By: Random Reviewer

Random Reviewer — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 16:22:45 +0000

lighten up francis.

By: Unknown

Unknown — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 05:11:03 +0000

Ah, Fatty (and of course, dug) has a little mean streak. I was unaware of the fact that he would be using my email as a blog entry. My email to him was entitled, "FWIW. See, I was under the impression that he would be writing the story (since he has a blog, and whatnot). I guess that’s tomorrow. Oh well. Thanks for the editing. It likely would have needed it, anyway. I am keenly aware of my propensity for grammatical errors. I guess I just don’t care. At least I don’t until someone starts paying me not to make them.
If you are referring to my two DNS’s, then I am ofer five. I didn’t think I needed to count races that I didn’t attend. Does that somehow make you feel better?
Metric century, 60 miles. It’s all for naught, anyway. I DNF’d and that’s that. I need no consolation. See the photos? Do I look irritated, or disappointed? I gave what I had, and again, considering my miniscule preparatory input, it wasn’t bad.
Grand Junction is a nice place, though half of the planet seems to be moving in this direction for retirement.
Bob–you suck.

By: Zed

Zed — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 04:05:47 +0000

Tokyob, buddy, quit rainin’ on the parade I’m throwing for the Rockster here. I’m sure he made up the extra 2.71 miles pacing nervously in the parking lot before the race. Besides, you ought to let the man round up. I’m sure he’d have ridden that far past the aid station if he’d grown up on the metric system.
I’m sure it felt like a century, anyway.

By: Born4Lycra

Born4Lycra — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 03:12:44 +0000

Dear Mr K.B. Hole (good one B21) care off Mr F Cyclist.
An excellent and entertaining article brilliantly finished off by point 12. You will do it again and that leaves me inspired. Congrats on still being liked by your girls – how do you do it mine will not even tell me how to get my name on the top of this comment – she just laughs uses the word old freely and walks off.
60 miles of hard riding and making new friends along the way – you are a winner! I probably should know this but who is number 541 in photo 2?

Cheers – Born4lycra

By: Unknown

Unknown — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 03:02:14 +0000

Good story. I seem to always ride with your Fatty brother in law. We were just minutes apart and we were both thinking that this was the year to break 9 hours. My wife and I are really interested in the Grand Junction area for a retirement location. Any thoughts you’d like to share?

By: brendan

brendan — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 02:17:45 +0000

Sorry Caloi 60 miles is not a metric centrury. From the Google calculator, 60 miles = 96.56064 kilometers (I’m sure that last 64cm is important to someone). KB Hole could say he nearly did a metric century – just short by 3.43936km – but that doesn’t really sound very impressive.However, riding 60 miles of the Leadville 100 does sound impressive – even though I have no idea where Leadville is – so I reckon he might as well stick with that. :-)

By: Jsun

Jsun — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 01:42:57 +0000

This is the best post I have read on this blog. And I don’t say that about every post, just the ones I leave comments on, which is a lot really. Probably too many, but that’s my sorry problem. I still think the post is great, mainly because it has pictures (taken with a camera, not a phone) and Fat Cyc’s posts have so many big words that I have to read it a few times to get what he is infering to. Congratulations on riding a metric century- wow, you beat FC’s 100 miles and did it by eating mangos and drinking Italian sodas. Perhaps you could write more about your european style metricalous training.
Jsun