Can I Ask You a personal question?

Originally Posted by limerickman

Agreed : the volume of traffic poses a problem for all of us.

I cycled from Bournemouth to Salisbury (went through a place called Fordingham
if I recall correctly).

On another day, i went out by Poole and up to Dorchester on the bike.
Very happy memories !

Originally Posted by BomoSammo

Do you mean Fordingbridge?
Some great country pubs, and their Fire Station Crew organise a great 10k run in late Spring - normally best to accomplish the latter prior to enjoying the former (just to take my post even more off-topic !).

Originally Posted by Jupiler

I'm an IT support agent for a huge American company near the Brussels airport. As I'm living in a historically cycling nut country I go to work everyday on my bike (also 'cause i can't afford a car just yet... )

Originally Posted by BomoSammo

Fortunately, or unfortunately as the case may be, I have been off work ill since last November and am happily now recuperating by the sea on the South Coast of England - so I missed the first hand experience but certainly knew more about what was going on through BBC News 24 than friends of mine who were travelling in around that time.
I'm not at all surprised about the terrorist attack.
Whilst of course the suffering of the dead and injured and their families is a dreadful, dreadful thing for them to go through and my thoughts and condolences go out to them there is a general underground feeling of "Is that the 'best' they (the terrorists) could do?".
For the amount of planning they had done you would have thought that they would have knocked out Victoria/Paddington/London Bridge stations as well and, worse still, used poison gas instead of just normal explosives - that's certainly what our emergency services had been planning to deal with.
I had a frantic few hours trying to locate my ex and my London flatmate who both travel through that area at that time of day.
My ex was asking me what was happening as she was being evacuated out of the tube and was off to catch a bus . . . I then had to try and get hold of her again and tell her to get off of any bus that she had been able to catch !
They were both safe and well.
Having been exposed to the IRA bombings of Harrods, the Baltic Exchange and Canary Wharf etc I hate to say it (and I can't speak for anyone else) but I get a little blase about these things - not morbidly so, just fatalistically, if it's going to happen and your number's up, then it's going to happen.
The story is now off of the front page, people are back to work as normal, the delays in the affected areas of tube track are not dissimilar to any normal day on our delapidated system.
So life, for those not involved, is getting back to normal.


Paul

Originally Posted by cuervo

Hi,

I'm software development engineer and project leader (Unix, database, communications, transactional monitoring, etc.) at a large Bank in Mexico.

I ride 6 days a week, 1.5 hours from Tuesday to Friday and 3:00 to 4:00 hours at week ends. I rest Mondays. Total of 300 - 400 Kms per week. I love this stuff.

Originally Posted by mareblu

Que bien por ti Cuervo. Eres el segundo ciclista que conozco que vive en Monterrey y escribe en estos foros. Nada mal 300 a 400 kms por semana. QUe barbaro!!!! que bicicleta tienes?????
Gracias por tu respuesta....y el cuervo es una marca de tequila?

Originally Posted by cuervo

Woow!!! tu español es EXCELENTE!!! felicidades. El kilometraje es porque compito a nivel estatal y entreno todos los días. Tengo una Trek 2300 pero estoy viendo a irme por una 5900 o una Look 481. ¿Tu que bicicleta tienes? ¿porque hablas tan buen español? Lo de Cuervo era mi equipo anterior, ahora estoy en uno mucho mejor que se llama Bike Zone.

Originally Posted by mareblu

Hola otra vez. Bueno te cuento rapidito, naci en Caracas Venezuela en donde me crie' aunque tambien vivi en Italia de donde son mis padres. Ahora vivo en los Estados Unidos y por eso tengo que, necesariamente hablar ingles. Oye que chevere tus bicicletas. Yo tengo una FELT60, una Casati Sphera y dos Treks una de ruta y una de mtb Trek5000. Me encanta este deporte y soy super fanatica de muchos atletas empezando por el Armstrong.
Tengo un foro de ciclismo en univision.com. Te invito para que vengas a conocernos, la mayoria hablamos castellano: miralo aqui ===> http://foro.univision.com/univision...ard.id=ciclismo

Desde mas de un año que Univision abrio' el foro y he tratado de buscar a ciclistas que hablaran español para poder compartir todo lo que se refiere ciclismo de ruta y el ciclistmo en general. Espero te inscribas y participes con nosotros, tenemos personas de todos los tipos nacionalidades y gustos.

Un placer conocerte,

Mareblu
Mareblu@univision.com

Originally Posted by cuervo

Gracias!!! te busco en el foro ...

Originally Posted by mareblu

Tienes Messenger de Yahoo o Hotmail digo para ver si coincidimos????

Originally Posted by cuervo

No, estoy atrás de Firewalls que filtran esas conexiones, pero ya charlaremos por mail ¿te parece?

Originally Posted by mareblu

ok, si no me ves por estos lados es porque ando en los foros de univision.
chau y happy riding!!!!!!! (ya te deje' mi email )