RR: Beer. Fix. Rush.

(Corvus Corvax) said:

It's a supremely frustrating day at work. I get home, pop open a Brooklyn Pilsener, and put on NIN
while I get into my bike shorts and get my Camelbak together. Out the door and uptown on the Surly
to the "Little Red Lighthouse" underneath the George Washington Bridge. An easy spin. warmup. Back
downtown on Riverside -- I'm in a sporting mood, so I hit eleventh avenue instead of the Greenway
south from 72nd St. to 42nd St. Rush hour on 11th Ave. in Midtown is a hoot on the fix, and I only
have to dab a few times. Onto the Greenway at 42nd St. and downtown. A cab pulls a typical bonehead
maneuver outside Chelsea Piers, pulls right out in front of me while I have the green, not even
looking. I saw it coming clear as day, but I skid the rear wheel, make it look worse than it is,
and get into a shouting match with the cab driver. I notice a pretty girl in the back of the cab as
I start to ride off, and I lean down to the open window as I pass by and say to her, "Please don't
give him a tip." And I'm off, downtown, downtown, and finally I stop for a pint of Bass at
Foxhounds, Liberty St. and South End Ave. Nice folks, and they let you bring your bike onto the
patio with you. Refreshed, I head back uptown. Some nitwit on an OCLV latches onto my rear wheel
like a pilot fish, and I have to slow to a crawl before he figures out I don't want him drafting
me. Sigh.

I head back into traffic at 72nd St. and dodge cars the rest of the way home. Beer. Fix. Rush. One
hundred percent fun.

CC

Nice, Bill The mind serves properly as a window glass rather than as a reflector, that is, the mind
should give an immediate view instead of an interpretation of the world.
:-]

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I head back into traffic at 72nd St. and dodge cars the rest of the way home. Beer. Fix. Rush. One
hundred percent fun.

CC

Sound like one of those British ride where you stop for a couple of pints midway through.

Mike - I could get to like that. ;^)

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I head back into traffic at 72nd St. and dodge cars the rest of the way home. Beer. Fix. Rush.
One hundred percent fun.

CC

Sound like one of those British ride where you stop for a couple of pints midway through.

Mike - I could get to like that. ;^)

I don't remember a club ride where we haven't stopped for beer at lunch time, except maybe the first
one....... It's Alex see, big old red faced retired guy, he leads most of the rides, and, he likes a
pint or two, TF.....

Now, my own solo local rides, well - that there's a whole 'nother story...........

Michael Dart said:

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I head back into traffic at 72nd St. and dodge cars the rest of the way home. Beer. Fix. Rush. One
hundred percent fun.

Sound like one of those British ride where you stop for a couple of pints midway through.

Don't forget quarter-way through, five eighths of the way through and the celebration drinks at the
end for completing the mile and a half circuit 🙂

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Mike - I could get to like that. ;^)

Just don't follow Corvus' example of drinking Bass...

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It's a supremely frustrating day at work. I get home, pop open a Brooklyn Pilsener, and put on NIN
while I get into my bike shorts and get my Camelbak together. Out the door and uptown on the Surly
to the "Little Red Lighthouse" underneath the George Washington Bridge. An easy spin. warmup. Back
downtown on Riverside -- I'm in a sporting mood, so I hit eleventh avenue instead of the Greenway
south from 72nd St. to 42nd St. Rush hour on 11th Ave. in Midtown is a hoot on the fix, and I only
have to dab a few times. Onto the Greenway at 42nd St. and downtown. A cab pulls a typical
bonehead maneuver outside Chelsea Piers, pulls right out in front of me while I have the green,
not even looking. I saw it coming clear as day, but I skid the rear wheel, make it look worse than
it is, and get into a shouting match with the cab driver. I notice a pretty girl in the back of
the cab as I start to ride off, and I lean down to the open window as I pass by and say to her,
"Please don't give him a tip." And I'm off, downtown, downtown, and finally I stop for a pint of
Bass at Foxhounds, Liberty St. and South End Ave. Nice folks, and they let you bring your bike
onto the patio with you. Refreshed, I head back uptown. Some nitwit on an OCLV latches onto my
rear wheel like a pilot fish, and I have to slow to a crawl before he figures out I don't want him
drafting me. Sigh.

I head back into traffic at 72nd St. and dodge cars the rest of the way home. Beer. Fix. Rush. One
hundred percent fun.

CC

Funny. Riding in my town is exactly like this isn't. We don't even have taxis.

Matt (in the sticks)

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Just don't follow Corvus' example of drinking Bass...

I like Bass. Newcastle too. I suppose you think they're [censored]. Funny how that
is. A lot of Aussies hate Fosters, brits seem hate Bass and Newcastle. I hate Bud and most other big
American beers. My Aussie uncle loves Bud and stocked the fridge (at an exorbitant cost) with it
for me last I visited. I would have preferred VB or Cooper. Do you suppose the Chinese hate
Tsing Tao?

Matt

MattB said:

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Just don't follow Corvus' example of drinking Bass...

I like Bass. Newcastle too. I suppose you think they're [censored].

As the old saying goes, 'If the bottom is falling out of your world, drink Newcie Brown, and then
the world will fall out of your bottom'.

Newcie Brown's ok, as is Bass, but neither would rate as a beer of choice if I were in an
English bar.

Funny how that

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is. A lot of Aussies hate Fosters, brits seem hate Bass and Newcastle.

A lot of Brits hate Fosters too - it's often the cheap option in the bars, yet in Geneva, it's
considered exclusive, and the most expensive beer you can buy.

I

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hate Bud and most other big American beers. My Aussie uncle loves Bud and stocked the fridge (at
an exorbitant cost) with it for me last I visited. I would have preferred VB or Cooper. Do you
suppose the Chinese hate Tsing Tao?

Probably. It seems to be one of those age-old things that to be considered a beer conoisseur, you
have to drink imported beer and pan your local brews.

As for the UK, there are some good beers (no decent lagers though, AFAIR), but they tend to be from
smaller breweries and they're unlikely to make their way across the pond.

As for me, my location allows me to enjoy Belgian and German beers at the moment. Tough life...

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bomba said:

MattB wrote:

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Funny how that
is. A lot of Aussies hate Fosters, brits seem hate Bass and Newcastle.

A lot of Brits hate Fosters too - it's often the cheap option in the bars, yet in Geneva, it's
considered exclusive, and the most expensive beer you can buy.

I think the whole time I lived in Oz, I only saw a couple Aussies drinking Fosters. It used to
crack me up to see Aussie yuppies drinking Budweiser though (with all those glorious Aussie
alternatives going for less). I never once got homesick enough to drink a Bud (or any other
American beer) in Oz. ;-)

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A lot of Brits hate Fosters too - it's often the cheap option in the bars, yet in Geneva, it's
considered exclusive, and the most expensive beer you can buy.

Makes me think of an amusing confrontation I had with a bartender in Geneva. I wandered into this
pub and ordered the first decent thing I saw on the beer list, a John Courage. Sipping that, I got
to the rest of the beer list and realized that they had a truly excellent selection of Belgians, so
for my second pint I ordered a Leffe. The bartenter went completely nonlinear at the thought of
somebody having a John Courage followed by a Leffe. The nerve! He started shouting at me in French
and waving his arms around. I eventually got my beer, but not without a hearty dose of contempt. I
eventually made friends with this particular bartender over the next few days by coming in every
evening and drinking geuze.

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Probably. It seems to be one of those age-old things that to be considered a beer conoisseur, you
have to drink imported beer and pan your local brews.

Yeah. I view the Bass thing as being sort of the British equivalent of American beer snobs hating
Sam Adams, just because it's mass produced. Despite the fact that it's a very good beer.

CC

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bomba <[email hidden]> wrote

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A lot of Brits hate Fosters too - it's often the cheap option in the bars, yet in Geneva, it's
considered exclusive, and the most expensive beer you can buy.

Makes me think of an amusing confrontation I had with a bartender in Geneva. I wandered into this
pub and ordered the first decent thing I saw on the beer list, a John Courage. Sipping that, I got
to the rest of the beer list and realized that they had a truly excellent selection of Belgians,
so for my second pint I ordered a Leffe. The bartenter went completely nonlinear at the thought of
somebody having a John Courage followed by a Leffe. The nerve! He started shouting at me in French
and waving his arms around. I eventually got my beer, but not without a hearty dose of contempt. I
eventually made friends with this particular bartender over the next few days by coming in every
evening and drinking geuze.

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Probably. It seems to be one of those age-old things that to be considered a beer conoisseur,
you have to drink imported beer and pan your local brews.

Yeah. I view the Bass thing as being sort of the British equivalent of American beer snobs hating
Sam Adams, just because it's mass produced. Despite the fact that it's a very good beer.

CC

My beef with Sam Adams is that it's too hearty. It's like drinking a milkshake. I used to love thick
beers, but now I'm a wimp. I'm actually drinking pale ales and even a few Mexican beers. Sam Adams
ties my stomach in knots.

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Corvus Corvax said:

Yeah. I view the Bass thing as being sort of the British equivalent of American beer snobs hating
Sam Adams, just because it's mass produced. Despite the fact that it's a very good beer.

It will do in a pinch but I wouldn't go seeking it out.

Greg

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just not to be consumed by rock n' roll..." - The Mekons

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Michael Dart said:

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I head back into traffic at 72nd St. and dodge cars the rest of the way home. Beer. Fix. Rush.
One hundred percent fun.

Sound like one of those British ride where you stop for a couple of

pints

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midway through.

Don't forget quarter-way through, five eighths of the way through and the celebration drinks at
the end for completing the mile and a half circuit 🙂

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Mike - I could get to like that. ;^)

Just don't follow Corvus' example of drinking Bass...

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Bass real ale (from the wood) can be pretty good. This is obviously not the Bass sold in the US,
which I think is an IPA (not sure of this though), not sure which Bass it equates to in Britain.

Chris

still better than any AB product

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MattB said:

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Just don't follow Corvus' example of drinking Bass...

I like Bass. Newcastle too. I suppose you think they're [censored].

As the old saying goes, 'If the bottom is falling out of your world, drink Newcie Brown, and then
the world will fall out of your bottom'.

Newcie Brown's ok, as is Bass, but neither would rate as a beer of choice if I were in an
English bar.

Funny how that

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is. A lot of Aussies hate Fosters, brits seem hate Bass and Newcastle.

A lot of Brits hate Fosters too - it's often the cheap option in the bars, yet in Geneva, it's
considered exclusive, and the most expensive beer you can buy.

I

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hate Bud and most other big American beers. My Aussie uncle loves Bud

and

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stocked the fridge (at an exorbitant cost) with it for me last I

visited. I

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would have preferred VB or Cooper. Do you suppose the Chinese hate Tsing Tao?

Probably. It seems to be one of those age-old things that to be considered a beer conoisseur, you
have to drink imported beer and pan your local brews.

As for the UK, there are some good beers (no decent lagers though, AFAIR), but they tend to be
from smaller breweries and they're unlikely to make their way across the pond.

As for me, my location allows me to enjoy Belgian and German beers at the moment. Tough life...

Funny thing that is. I too love Belgian beers. If I had to choose only one nationality of beer to
drink from this day forward it would be Belgian. I haven't found a Belgian beer I didn't like. Ever
had Golden Kerolis (probably botched the spelling)? Yummy and very high alcohol content. That's
probably why I can never remember how it's spelled.

Last time I was in London (quite a while ago) I got some Ruddles Country Ale and it was sublime.
Never seen it on this side. I'd buy it if I did. Of course I'm not exactly in the beer importing
capitol of the United States, so it's quite possibly available somewhere over here.

Matt (living in the beer importing capitol of Gunnison County)

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Last time I was in London (quite a while ago) I got some Ruddles Country

Ale

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and it was sublime. Never seen it on this side. I'd buy it if I did. Of course I'm not exactly
in the beer importing capitol of the United States, so it's quite possibly available somewhere
over here.

That's 'Ruddles County' Matt, and yeah, 'sOK.

T^ry and search out something from the Hopback (Summer Lightning is a great, well hopped summer ale,
or there's Thunderstorm, like it sounds........whooooo........) brewery for a classic.

Shaun aRe

I LOVE Brooklyn Brown,which I can grab at the packy a mile from here. If you don't know where here
is New London Ct.

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Last time I was in London (quite a while ago) I got some Ruddles Country

Ale

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and it was sublime. Never seen it on this side. I'd buy it if I did. Of course I'm not exactly
in the beer importing capitol of the United

States,

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so it's quite possibly available somewhere over here.

That's 'Ruddles County' Matt, and yeah, 'sOK.

T^ry and search out something from the Hopback (Summer Lightning is a

great,

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well hopped summer ale, or there's Thunderstorm, like it sounds........whooooo........) brewery
for a classic.

Shaun aRe

Ah, thanks for the correction. It was good, whatever you call it. Not much

Tell ya' what, you bring me some good beer from over there and I'll show you some nice trails. Deal?

Matt

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Now you can try the cliffs on the other side of the river.

Gordo's done River Road on his fix. I'm not quite there yet -- I swap onto a 20-tooth freewheel for
that ride.

CC

MattB said:

Tell ya' what, you bring me some good beer from over there and I'll show you some nice
trails. Deal?

Ooh, sir, pick me!

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MattB said:

Tell ya' what, you bring me some good beer from over there and I'll show

you

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some nice trails. Deal?

Ooh, sir, pick me!

Why don't you all come? The extra beer shouldn't be a problem...

Matt