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The Great Toad
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 Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 10:14 pm Post subject: 53x11 Bike Hero Brags on riding His Silver Lass on Jeju |
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lush72
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: I am Penalty Kick!
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| Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: Killbox 90210
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| Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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The Great Toad
Joined: 12 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: Killbox 90210
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| Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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| The Great Toad wrote: |
| Hmmm well I did say I was boasting, but it is about Korea. Do you guys ride- lush or bert? |
Unfortunately no. I was never able to master the lingo. |
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The Great Toad
Joined: 12 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 10:42 pm Post subject: |
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Pyongshin Sangja
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: I love baby!
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| Yes I have C-Record ten speed 11-23- I don't think they make 11-21 or I would have gotten it |
You have C-Record ten speed 11-23? Do you mean Record?
C-Record is from 1986 and usually looks like this, at least these days:
Do I ride? Not these days. Used to wrench, though.Nice bike you got. |
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The Great Toad
Joined: 12 Jun 2004
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The Great Toad
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butter808fly
Joined: 09 May 2004
Location: Northern California, USA
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Toad your delicious words wrap around my cortex with delight. The bike riding imagery makes me yearn for a bike.  |
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Hardy Boy
Joined: 03 Jul 2004
Location: I live in a shoe. Made in B.C., Northern Vancouver Island
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| Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 10:00 pm Post subject: Re: 53x11 Bike Hero Brags on riding His Silver Lass on Jeju |
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[MOD note: This thread was split and saved in the general forum because of the relevance to Korean living of these saving-grace aspects of an otherwise off-topic original post.]
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The thrust of this missive is... to expound on the use of mine own indomitable prowess in Korea.
...I subjectively claimed it many times to the small children I taught, that I did dwell with the orangutans in their lofty homes whilst training in South East Asia during my stint as a Devil Hound of Hellish Ethos...
...A long while ago, I went about fifty miles on Saturday up towards Incheon. On my way there and back I drafted all kinds of box shaped vehicles. Buses are relatively hard to stay with, because they can accelerate faster than loaded dirt dump trucks, yet they are nice and boxy so the key was I'd just draft behind a dump truck to around thirty- forty mph, and then I'd have the spin going on my 53x11 175 cranks- like an orangutan slips into a spreading branch's "Y", so I'd just slid in the passing bus in the left lane and spin up to approximately fifty, I couldn't tell because my plerex hrm/speedometer died last summer....I inevitably come to these nice dead end pastoral roads and some old security duff in a blue generic security baseball hat and matching polyester trousers and jacket commands me,
"Hogi! Chogi!? (there there you go there- Away- or it here?) He pantomimes golf motions.
"This golf play golf you Chogi!"
-So I go away then. I gave up on the country roads. I just stick with the 80-kilometer-an-hour highways, the country roads were nerve-racking because they were never real country desolate, just sort of extended sprawl one lane speedways with locals honking at me. And they put speed bumps on all the local roads which is way distracting when your building up to forty on a nice downhill and have to hop and lay back through a four foot long black and yellow speed bump.
A while ago I was mountain biking and came upon some high school security guard yelling at me- I don't know if it was a high school, just that it had a glistening maiden snow covered soccer field. I got there by a convoluted route. There's a well-marked hiking trail that starts behind the cultural museum and goes at least another five miles to the Korean Folk village. So I was cruising around up and down the steps of this hike path, kindly walking by the many Korean hikers when I see a break in the forest next to a sweet looking soccer field.
Of course, I rode over to it and did some power slides in the snow and practiced my wheelies for around ten minutes
...Riding my bike up by the descent some venerable granddaddy finally pops out of his security shack and barbaroses some Korean, "Chogi!?" and I say,
"Yeah Yeah Right I'm just goin' down the steps."
I go down the steps all scared.
...my allotted time in that hateful megalopolis Yongin Wasteland was a burden, my one loveless object of passion would outlast me- and her unmovable gray metal heart loved me not. Her and could not be twain by the salt spray- her her painful love I inured to fly with me. My titanium Merlin Extralight Road Bicycle- She and I didst twist and lay about the ribbons of road beds together upon the sheets of cold ice. Our lust was insanity in the eyes of the voyeurs we flaunted- freighting in the speed of our trysts. But, when the jaws of winter gnash and he breathes his frosty breath, there is only sliding doom for my mortal flesh. How I lasted through winter unabraded is privy to Providence solely. It could be my decidedly Christian- strangely few are Buddhist- kids were praying for me. Or would God heed the sincere request of a Buddhist child spoken in faith? "Oh great One bless my teacher I love him."
...Finally, in the late winter, I crashed sweetly on my mountain bike whilst commuting to the Ori Subway Station- it was due to my radding out on a fat-ass jump street-to-sidewalk transition- I salvoed on some nontraction dirt pile on landing.
...Never the less, in this new world of Jeju island presently herein only Akhilleus can out run me, and Beowulf might equal the innate power of mine arms.
...I hope this assists any inquiring roads toads who were pondering a time teaching in Korea. |
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pet lover
Joined: 02 Jan 2004
Location: not in Seoul
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jaderedux
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Lurking outside Seoul
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Yes I ride...no I don't write poseur prose to prove how cool I am.
Nice story...under all the posturing lingo.
Jade |
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