a slight Food & Exercise addendum

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 13:17:53 -0400, "Beverly"
wrote:


"Chris Braun" wrote in message
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On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 09:12:03 +0200, "LucaBG" wrote:

you are an incredible woman ...
I hope u don't become green when you are hangry ;-)
luca



Huh?

Chris

I think this was a reference to the use of the word incredible. Do you
remember the "Incredible Hulk" who turned into a green monster at certain
times?


Ah yes -- thanks!

Chris

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 13:17:53 -0400, "Beverly"
wrote:


"Chris Braun" wrote in message
.. .
On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 09:12:03 +0200, "LucaBG" wrote:

you are an incredible woman ...
I hope u don't become green when you are hangry ;-)
luca



Huh?

Chris

I think this was a reference to the use of the word incredible. Do you
remember the "Incredible Hulk" who turned into a green monster at certain
times?


Ah yes -- thanks!

Chris

"Mary M - Ohio" wrote in message
...
We had a hairy experience last Sunday (not yesterday) when my bike fell
off the car
on the freeway and we didn't notice it for at least 2 miles -- good
ending, though --
three people stopped to tell us where it was and other than needing a
tune-up and
being pretty scratched up, the bike is OK. Thank God it didn't fly through
someone's
windshield. I still think someone (perhaps one of the rowdy young boys at
the Dairy
Mart when we stopped) deliberately undid the latches on the bike rack,
because it's
physically impossible for them to get undone themselves -- we tried all
sorts of
methods to recreate what might have happened and we couldn't get the
latches undone
despite any amount of deliberate shaking, etc.

What kind of rack are you using? I have a Thule that goes in the trailer
hitch of my SUV. In addition to the straps on the rack, mine came with a
long nylon strap that I can use to tie the bike(s) to the rack. One time I
actually left the bike trail with the bike hanging on the rack and the tie
strap in place but I forgot to do the straps on the rack itself. Luckily
the swaying bike caught my attention in the rear view! Anyway, you might
consider an additional bungee or nylon strap just for situations like this
where someone screws with your rack.

Glad things worked out ok for you.

Jenn

Mary M - Ohio wrote:

We had a hairy experience last Sunday
experiences snipped

Well, now you're pre-disastered for the rest of the year!


--
Walking (but mostly biking!) on . . .
Laurie in Maine
207/110 60 inches of attitude!
Start: 2/02 Maintained since 2/03

"Beverly" wrote in message
...
It was a 16 mile ride. Most of the rides are 12-20 miles in distance. We
have a variety of riders with different levels of experience.

Hey, then I could do that! :-)

It sounds like someone tampered with the bike rack. I've never had a bike
come loose on mine. My bikes have probably seen as many miles on the rack
as they have on the roadg I've hauled them to NY, Missouri, Virginia,
etc.

We have taken the bikes many times on the (brand-new) rack with no problem, so I
really do think that someone unsnapped the latches.

I hope you don't have another weekend like that one!

Me too! Just FYI, later that week (Thursday), my friend and I got back from a 20-mile
ride to find that my car tire was flat. But a nice man put on my "doughnut" tire for
me till I got new tires later that day -- so I don't expect to have that problem
again anytime soon! And I talked to one of the cops about how dangerous the four-lane
highway is to cross, and he said that they are going to build a bridge for the bikers
over that road. Yay!

I'll be out biking tomorrow. My company gives us two days off each year to
do volunteer work in the community. My bike patrol qualifies as volunteer
work! I'm joining some of the senior members for a PB (Panera Bread) ride
then we'll head to a neighboring county to do some riding there. I've been
checking out their website today so I can make a wise (or at least not so
damaging) choice for breakfastg

Hope you have fun today - it should be nice here in Ohio! I eat at Panera
occasionally and find that their Ciabatta bread doesn't cause me undue cravings. Not
like those Asiago bagels which I used to *love* and eat two at a time ... or four ...
oops. :-)

Mary
Beverly

"JMA" wrote in message ...
What kind of rack are you using? I have a Thule that goes in the trailer
hitch of my SUV.

John bought a Thule also, but he doesn't have a trailer hitch -- so it's the one that
connects in a million places on the car trunk. He says next time he buys a car, the
trailer hitch will be a prerequisite!

In addition to the straps on the rack, mine came with a
long nylon strap that I can use to tie the bike(s) to the rack. One time I
actually left the bike trail with the bike hanging on the rack and the tie
strap in place but I forgot to do the straps on the rack itself. Luckily
the swaying bike caught my attention in the rear view! Anyway, you might
consider an additional bungee or nylon strap just for situations like this
where someone screws with your rack.

Yes, we really should have had the bikes strapped together -- but the bike rack has
been fine before and since -- though I noticed he was driving really slowly to our
ride last weekend! :-)

Glad things worked out ok for you.
Thanks, Jenn!

Mary

"SnugBear" wrote in message
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Mary M - Ohio wrote:
We had a hairy experience last Sunday
experiences snipped
Well, now you're pre-disastered for the rest of the year!

Yes, I sure hope so -- but I had left out the story about coming back to a flat tire
on my car the following Thursday after a 20-mile ride -- it just sounded too whiny,
LOL. So I hope now I am *really* disaster proof, knock knock!

Mary