POTY?

Luke said:

Although he addresses no technical issues, Ben's submission, so
silver-tongued and entertaining merits consideration! A few others are
of the same mind. The post's thread concerns a webpage at frappr.com
depicting a map of the locations of various r.b.t participants.

I'd vote for it.

Quoted message said:

Jobst's location is known to all, and yet a mystery. Some claim
to have seen him on Mt. Hamilton Rd in the blinding sun, and some
say he emerged from a fog on Skyline. Yet others saw him riding
through a blizzard cresting the Passo di Gavia. I once saw him
on Alpine Road, but perhaps it was a trick of the light, dappled as
I descended in and out of the shade of the trees. On group rides,
grizzled veterans tell stories of how Jobst rode to the summit
of Mount Diablo before there was a road, so long ago that he was
still using tubular tires. Some say there is no Jobst, that it is a
spook story old men make up to frighten children and metallurgists.
Others say that Jobst is an immanence, that every time a rider
breaks a freewheel axle, Jobst is there.

Who am I to judge? Yet I do not think even a Google-derived
website will suffice to answer the question.

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"All my time I spent in heaven
Revelries of dance and wine
Waking to the sound of laughter
Up I'd rise and kiss the sky" - The Mekons

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Luke said:

Although he addresses no technical issues, Ben's submission, so
silver-tongued and entertaining merits consideration! A few others are
of the same mind. The post's thread concerns a webpage at frappr.com
depicting a map of the locations of various r.b.t participants.

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Simon Cooper said:

http://www.frappr.com/recbicyclestech
I notice Jobst hasn't posted a picture up there as yet.  Maybe he doesn't
have a suitable image to hand?

Jobst's location is known to all, and yet a mystery.  Some claim
to have seen him on Mt. Hamilton Rd in the blinding sun, and some
say he emerged from a fog on Skyline.  Yet others saw him riding
through a blizzard cresting the Passo di Gavia.  I once saw him
on Alpine Road, but perhaps it was a trick of the light, dappled as
I descended in and out of the shade of the trees.  On group rides,
grizzled veterans tell stories of how Jobst rode to the summit
of Mount Diablo before there was a road, so long ago that he was
still using tubular tires.  Some say there is no Jobst, that it is a
spook story old men make up to frighten children and metallurgists.
Others say that Jobst is an immanence, that every time a rider
breaks a freewheel axle, Jobst is there.

Who am I to judge?  Yet I do not think even a Google-derived
website will suffice to answer the question.

Ben

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Michael Press

Egad.

Jobst != a mythical being; he's real enough. No mythical being has
ever managed to combine digital-level literalness, Prussian
exactitude, and actual usefulness in anything approaching the same
way.

Hmmm. I wonder, though; at this point, do we have enough of a sample
space to build a Jobst emulator so that he could take a week off once
in a while without having to risk letting anyone go unpunished for
their presumption in having a dissenting point of view?

--
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Luke ha escrito:

Quoted message said:

On group rides,
grizzled veterans tell stories of how Jobst rode to the summit
of Mount Diablo before there was a road, so long ago that he was
still using tubular tires.

Mount Diablo has been paved since Jobst was a small child, and tubulars
were a no-brainer. He told us these stories in his Wednesday evening
snake bite patching sessions where we all sniffed Masticce Gutta and
relieved stress.

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http://diabloscott.blogspot.com

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Quoted message said:

Hmmm. I wonder, though; at this point, do we have enough of a sample
space to build a Jobst emulator so that he could take a week off once
in a while without having to risk letting anyone go unpunished for
their presumption in having a dissenting point of view?

Ahhh, but seasoned heretics are familiar with the annual r.b.t ritual:
when Jobst vacates this forum for his annual ride in the Alps, r.b.t is
alive with sermons praising the virtues of hard anodized rims, aluminum
nipples, kevlar spokes, etc....

Patience, when JB's grinding up the Stelvio, the pulpit will be yours!

I suspect we don't have enough data to build a Jobst emulator expert
system, except perhaps specialized to wheel building. I do think we
have the makings of a new computer game, "Where in the World is Jobst
Brandt??!!"

Looking for partners in the patent,

Ken

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Quoted message said:

Egad.

Jobst != a mythical being; he's real enough. No mythical being has
ever managed to combine digital-level literalness, Prussian
exactitude, and actual usefulness in anything approaching the same
way.

Hmmm. I wonder, though; at this point, do we have enough of a
sample
space to build a Jobst emulator so that he could take a week off
once
in a while without having to risk letting anyone go unpunished for
their presumption in having a dissenting point of view?

--
Typoes are a feature, not a bug.
Some gardening required to reply via email.
Words processed in a facility that contains nuts.

Luke said:

Jobst's location is known to all, and yet a mystery.  Some claim
to have seen him on Mt. Hamilton Rd in the blinding sun, and some
say he emerged from a fog on Skyline.  Yet others saw him riding
through a blizzard cresting the Passo di Gavia.  I once saw him
on Alpine Road, but perhaps it was a trick of the light, dappled as
I descended in and out of the shade of the trees.  On group rides,
grizzled veterans tell stories of how Jobst rode to the summit
of Mount Diablo before there was a road, so long ago that he was
still using tubular tires.  Some say there is no Jobst, that it is a
spook story old men make up to frighten children and metallurgists.
Others say that Jobst is an immanence, that every time a rider
breaks a freewheel axle, Jobst is there.

You're Jeremy Clarkson describing the Stig, and I claim my 5 pounds.

Jasper