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Yes , they WERE , it truly hurt when each one broke . I couldn't let that situation continue any longer . I was destroying cycling history .
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My apologies ,of course , apply sincerely to you as well .
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You are , of course correct . I think I may end up defining regret for the rest of my life around how I now feel about having made that comment in particular , along with quite a few of the other things I wrote that night without really thinking about them . My blast at Skully ,who truly didn't deserve it , springs to mind.
You may be right about never meeting your heroes . I was not a messenger for so long because I was a perfectly formed godlike being -far from it -I hid in the messenger world for so many years because I was an intensely socially awkward, scared , scarred ,yet very angry young man -afraid of facing the World at large . -
I'm disgusted with myself for having made it , along with a lot of the other things I wrote that night .The people who called me out were correct to do so ,and I apologize to them , and anyone else I offended .
Drunk on the internet is not a good idea . I have shown myself to be quite a yob - which is something I never viewed myself as being. -
Skully- I want to take this opportunity to apologize sincerely to you (and everybody else I may have offended). I should have thought MUCH harder before typing! I have been caught out very badly here for being prejudiced about who I would find on a forum such as this- I thought everyone was barely old enough to shave , and so felt like I was being lectured by children . Even if that was the case ,which it isn't ,it would still have been wrong to go off half cocked like I did ! I really must watch my online temper , and my sexist comments.
I am very sorry to read about your friend who made your GIF , I can only imagine the hurt my comment must have caused you , and hope that you can forgive , though , in retrospect, I wouldn't blame you if you didn't.
You are also right about the curb drops . It was a combination of factors that broke those frames . The skid technique was a large part of it , but just about everything we did back then constitutes gross abuse of a type of bicycle that was designed to only be ridden on smooth , pristine velodromes , not smashed around city streets like an urban assault vehicle by a 90kg gorilla. Rest assured I am much gentler with my machinery now . I'm kind of seeking redemption with how I treat my current bikes .
While I stand by a lot of it , I wish I could take back quite a bit of what I wrote that night , but , of course , it's the internet and you can't . I'm very new to this and I hope to learn from this experience and improve my internet manners , just as I have learnt to improve my typing style .
Sorry again-Ron.
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Too many smartarses on here- that may be it for me! Frustrating really!
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Ahh yes-Quicksilver! Kevin Bacon's mystery , shape shifting bicycle!
Do you kids know the story of Nelson Vails-the Cheetah? -
Yes,I'll be around ,we'll have to connect somehow! Not quite sure how- I don't want to publish my personal contact details on ANY forum where anybody can see them. Maybe let me know in this thread -I'll keep an eye on it! I'm new here myself but I'm pretty well connected in the Riga bike scene, I pretty much know all the top mechanics and restorers ,the Riga Tru Fix Kru boys and the Velokurjers.LV crew who are organising CMWC (Cycle Messenger World Championships ,for the ignorant) here in August ,so ought to be able to have a bit of hospitality on line!
This is for every body else-three times tonight I've typed carefully spaced;-) considered replies to new comments , only to have them disappear when I've gone back to check on what was written earlier! Most frustrating ! I've wasted at least a couple of hours! I'll maybe get around to doing more elaboration tomorrow-but now i'm tired and it's bedtime ! -
Seen a few policewomen over the years I'd like to bang!!
Looks really good -you've got a fair bit of climbing ahead of you . Of course going down on fixed gear with no brakes is , if anything , even harder. A New York messenger ,who ,along with his partner ,was riding around Australia , fully loaded and brakeless described it so: "Murder going up, going down is suicide."
May you have a great and safe trip! I'm sure you'll have many adventures -may they all be positive ! Wish I had the guts to make such a trip ,at my age it took just about all I had left to move from Australia to Latvia - while it took a lot -I flew;-)
See you in Riga!