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Edward Dolan
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Freewheeling <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> On 11 Jan 2004 11:20:13 -0800, [email protected] (Edward Dolan) wrote:
>
> >Most folks who ride recumbents are not ever going to improve themselves much physically or any
> >other way. Therefore, it is extremely interesting to hear what neophytes have to say about
> >recumbents. Yes, they will improve their riding skills and their conditioning to some small
> >extent, but they are not ever going to turn into world class hill climbers and racers. I am
> >really put off by all the advice that newbies receive from some of the old hands here on ARBR.
> >Most of it is very bum advice for newbies and is only suitable for hard core recumbent cyclists.
>
> Uhm, this is simply an assertion without any facts or logic to back it up. The sort of thing one
> might expect to see on Indymedia. In other words, it reeks of ideology.
>
> But whatever, eh? Listen to novices if that's what turns you on. It's a free country, and a matter
> of almost infinitesimal import.
I do not know why you are taking my posts apart paragraph by paragraph when you could just have
easily responded to them in toto all in one post. I am not going to bother to follow your lead as it
just creates needless confusion and redundancy. Besides which, you are not making any worthwhile
points anyway.
Most of the time what I am saying does not require any "facts" as I am merely stating a common
observation. I am always perfectly logical, but one man's logic is another man's total confusion.
There is no ideology connected with cycling for heaven's sake! Let us reserve that term for
political posts.
I will take a novice over an "expert" like you any day when I want to know what the general reaction
is to recumbent bicycles. You are hard core. I am not interested in your views because of that fact
alone. But you might at least have the good sense to realize that you are hard core and that much of
what you have to say to the novice and the newbie is therefore crackpot and just plain bum advice.
Yes, it certainly is a free country and everyone in it can read what you have to say about
recumbents and they can read what I have to say about recumbents and then they can choose whom to
believe. Does any of this matter in the grand scheme of things. Of course not! But in the grand
scheme of things, nothing matters - not you, not me, not even
Mr. Sherman!
Ed Dolan - Minnesota
> On 11 Jan 2004 11:20:13 -0800, [email protected] (Edward Dolan) wrote:
>
> >Most folks who ride recumbents are not ever going to improve themselves much physically or any
> >other way. Therefore, it is extremely interesting to hear what neophytes have to say about
> >recumbents. Yes, they will improve their riding skills and their conditioning to some small
> >extent, but they are not ever going to turn into world class hill climbers and racers. I am
> >really put off by all the advice that newbies receive from some of the old hands here on ARBR.
> >Most of it is very bum advice for newbies and is only suitable for hard core recumbent cyclists.
>
> Uhm, this is simply an assertion without any facts or logic to back it up. The sort of thing one
> might expect to see on Indymedia. In other words, it reeks of ideology.
>
> But whatever, eh? Listen to novices if that's what turns you on. It's a free country, and a matter
> of almost infinitesimal import.
I do not know why you are taking my posts apart paragraph by paragraph when you could just have
easily responded to them in toto all in one post. I am not going to bother to follow your lead as it
just creates needless confusion and redundancy. Besides which, you are not making any worthwhile
points anyway.
Most of the time what I am saying does not require any "facts" as I am merely stating a common
observation. I am always perfectly logical, but one man's logic is another man's total confusion.
There is no ideology connected with cycling for heaven's sake! Let us reserve that term for
political posts.
I will take a novice over an "expert" like you any day when I want to know what the general reaction
is to recumbent bicycles. You are hard core. I am not interested in your views because of that fact
alone. But you might at least have the good sense to realize that you are hard core and that much of
what you have to say to the novice and the newbie is therefore crackpot and just plain bum advice.
Yes, it certainly is a free country and everyone in it can read what you have to say about
recumbents and they can read what I have to say about recumbents and then they can choose whom to
believe. Does any of this matter in the grand scheme of things. Of course not! But in the grand
scheme of things, nothing matters - not you, not me, not even
Mr. Sherman!
Ed Dolan - Minnesota