ITT Course Record, Cookie Trivia, and more reviews.
This just in:
Subaru sets new distance record on single tank of Gas… Yup that’s right, Old Faithful just ran 735km on 13 gallons of ‘bronze grade’ gasoline!! It included 2 trips to the post office, and the rest was Hwy cruising. The previous mark was 727, and was with the Platinum stuff from the Multi Laser days. I’ve done some aftermarket stuff since then to lighten it up (rust holes, and the MudFlaps fell off one winter), reduced rolling resistance, by loosing the hub caps on the passenger side of the car (big pot-hole in Houston) and earlier in the summer I removed the car racks, as I only use them once a year anyhow.
Last Saturday I headed up to Maine for the (MXC) or Maine Summer Sports Challenge.
I was up there racing with the North River Printing team. They’re really cool guys – if you live near Nottingham NH, and need some stuff printed up – Call Mark: 603-770-0695. We did the event as a swim, bike, -canoe, run, kayak, beach-stroll relay. Jake, our swimmer came out of the water first. I rode my brains out, to make sure that I wasn’t the weak link, and handed off to the ‘dirty old men’ who did their thing in the canoe. Yeah, we showed Poland Maine what’s up. I think everyone on the team posted the fastest leg in their discipline, and a few of us set course records.
I couldn’t help noticing how close the Out houses we used were to the Poland Springs Mineral Water Bottling plant… At least next month you’ll know where the minerals came from in your bottled water.
Things that ‘missed’ the review, last week:
Segway:
This thing really is awesome. With the govener off it books around at almost 20 km/h, it can do serious off roading, it’s great for racing, and the forward/reverse motion is spooky how natural it is. Costs $4500, Turning is odd, and I was always going the wrong way.
Verdict: If I marketed these things they could be a gold mine, buy stock incase.
ArchBiker at Tandem Nationals:
Not much to say, other than as my spy’s reported after the race “[the Archbiker and Zippy] looked like bags of hell.” I think that’s also how they were feeling. AB was also amazed that several people approached, and asked for autographs, suspecting that he may infact be the elusive archbiker.
Verdict: Lettuice that’s been sitting on my car seat too long.
Hershey ‘1 gram Carb’ Chocolate bars
Yeah they were giving these away at ‘TWOna’ (it’s in PA). Day one I ate a few. Day 2 I ate 10-15. I had ‘issue’s which far surpassed eating an entire bag of ‘Olean’ Chips. AVOID THESE BARS. If that wasn’t bad enough they didn’t even taste like chocolate.
Verdict: Avoid like he Plague, not fit for human consumption
Question: Is ‘your mother’, who sometimes contributes to my diary is actually my mother.
Answer: Word for word. She hasn’t e-mailed me in a few months now either… Hmmm
If there was a prime valued at $1 for every time a person commented on the spelling’s and grammer’s used in my diary, the entire peloton would go nuts sprinting for it.
Just today Cookie Monster, and later the AB mentioned that I should remove and never use the apostrophe key from my lap-top
Contest Update
Kelly (ey?) was psyched that I managed to spell her name correctly once in the last diary entry. She replaced her entry of my brother with her cat.
1) the Toad just got his appendix out (good weight loss plan)
2) The cat does nothing all day either (ouch)
Kelley (y?) have you ever eaten cat-food?
Eerik writes: if the contest winner is announced near the end of
the month, then perhaps you can come here and move my stuff (since you will be
me) from my current house to Brent Curry’s place
To Eerik: I’m heading up to Ontario tomorrow, and don’t have a place to stay. I think I’ll be you (FYI I was planning on sleeping in the Subaru) until the end of the month.. then I’d be me again. Also I was planning on training really hard twice a day. Good on ya, you’re the first winner, sorry I’m gonna be me racing in Detroit while you’re moving.
Pop Quiz:
#1, Are these cookies meant to be eaten by:
A) People
B) Cats
D) Dogs
C) It’s just scented wax and not meant to be eaten.
E) None of the above, trick question.
#2. How many of these cookie’s did I, Bicycle Fatso, eat?
Answer next week, (or whenever I get around to it) …the answer.
