Down-tube shifter question from Diogenes...

[catulle]

Diogenes: Socrates, dude, slip some Truth into my circle of light. Yo, pray tell, for what are the single shifters on Lance's and Jan's bicycles' down-tubes?

Socrates: Life in Provo is really screwing up your mind, you crazy hippie. Besides, I don't talk to cynics. Hey, tune in to the Serotta Forum, they may be able to answer your stupid question, atmo.

Diogenes: Groovy, bro. Turn on, tune in, drop out, iirc. Keep on trucking, Soc. I'll check with the brothers at the Serotta hood, atmo.

Socrates goes back to his boys, and Diogenes saunters off with his lantern. Somewhere along the line he just might run into Mr. Jerk or some other erudite bro and get the answer Socrates refused to acknowledge, atmo.

[pale scotsman]

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. Alas I do know they were used to save weight in the mountain stages. Not much shiftin' going on up there anyway when the hills be sho nuff steep.

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bro front der. d.t. save weight and it works better i.m.h.o. cheers
bro they were not the first to do it some other tour riders were doin it a few years before if i remember right .

[catulle]

Oh, Truth is no match for the collective wisdom of this township, atmo. Thank you for enlightening me.

[Dr. Doofus]

Hera****us: cause you can't shift into the same gear twice. cog wear, man.

Socrates: hera****us? I thought you were dead.

Hera****us: that's a different movie, bubba -- stick with the script.

[catulle]

Hera****us: cause you can't shift into the same gear twice. cog wear, man.

Socrates: hera****us? I thought you were dead.

Hera****us: that's a different movie, bubba -- stick with the script.

Hera****us: Hey, Rummy, too bad Scooter is in deep poop. He took the whole Strauss schtick too much at heart.

Rumsfeld: You started it all, dude, atmo. Hell, and that old weirdo Neitzche made it even worse. Hey, listening to all that Wagner crap does it to you, atmo. But now I ain't about to stop. I'm making too much money, bebe.

Hera****us: Oh, well, who cares? I'm long gone anyway. Besides, let Plato do the dirty work and let him try to straighten it all out. After all, it won't be until Woodstock that they'll see a ray of light.

Rumsfeld: Woodstock!? That was some hot Mechoacan I was getting back then, iirc. Far out! Very groovy, dude. Tim's bad acid really turned it around for me, though. Himmler at the end of the tunnel, wow, too much. Hey, gotta go, W, is calling me on the darn red call phone. Something about them rag-heads, atmo.

Hera****us: I hate to see that Diogenes guy riding that Serotta Meivici in front of my window. He thinks he's so cool. And all them hippie chicks following him. I hate the guy. See you, Rummy, pal.

[jerk]

superstition, weight and the ability to trim the fder so they can ride in cross over gears without any rubbing.

adorno: superstition often serves practical purposes in the support of the overwhelming totality.

lukacs: what about trim?

adorno: you're gonna have to talk to walter benjamin about that.

[catulle]

Jean Paul: These cycling guys are really loosing it, atmo. In itself, it's only about steel tubes. For itself, it's only a bike. And it all don't mean merd unless you fit the praxis of two legs on the sadlle, atmo.

Simone: Hell is others, dude. You said it yourself, iirc. What do you expect, atmo?

Jean Paul: You try to do the best you can, you spend thirty years with a torch on your hand, you do the best you can for the worker's cause, you build bicycles according to Husserl, and you still get lots of merd. No exit, bro. No exit, atmo.

Simone: Just put that pipe away and come get some, atmo. You are so cross-eyed you couldn't ride a bicycle if you wanted to, atmo. Let's free some of that old French libido on each other you old guerrilla you, babe.

[e-RICHIE]

Simone: Just put that pipe away and come get some, atmo. You are so cross-eyed you couldn't ride a bicycle if you wanted to, atmo. Let's free some of that old French libido on each other you old guerrilla you, babe.

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[Dr. Doofus]

henry james: to truly understand the experience of the jerk's sunday, you have to hear the story of the jerk told through by a lucid reflector -- a lesser rider who owns a giant, and who is, of course, unaware of what parts of his story reach to the truth.

henry miller: you the lug guy?

henry james: no.

henry miller: **** you then

[catulle]

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henry miller: you the lug guy?

henry james: no.

henry miller: **** you then[/QUOTE

Henry Miller: I hear that e-RICHIE guy gets it more than Sinatra, iirc. But he don't get more than I do, atmo.

W. Burroughs: Like, far out, man. He actually left with all the hippie chicks I brought to Morocco, man. He only talked about some Gestalt mumble-jumbo and even Baba Ram Das wanted to leave with the man, man.

Henry Miller: He can take them to the tropic of capricorn for all I care. He can only fit so many in a damn red bike, atmo.

W. Burroughs: I'm napping out, man. Never underestimate the wisdom of insecurity, man; that's heavy stuff, brother. Bring back some cous-cous the next time around, though, man.

[Dr. Doofus]

heidegger: E-Ritchie needs to get off that gestalt trip, atmo. rid-ing unveils itself only when the stuff breaks. you look at your broken fork and think "what is that." its not a broken fork. its something entirely different.

rorty: bro, maybe you should use the warranty? practical action, bro, atmo.

heidegger: you don't grok the significance of it. your collarbone is in pieces, but you are fully aware of your own being in the world and that you need to get some new gear, atafj.

rorty: bro -- just use stuff that doesn't break.

[catulle]

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Damn straight, buba, atmo.

[Serpico]

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[catulle]

heidegger: E-Ritchie needs to get off that gestalt trip, atmo. rid-ing unveils itself only when the stuff breaks. you look at your broken fork and think "what is that." its not a broken fork. its something entirely different.

rorty: bro, maybe you should use the warranty? practical action, bro, atmo.

heidegger: you don't grok the significance of it. your collarbone is in pieces, but you are fully aware of your own being in the world and that you need to get some new gear, atafj.

rorty: bro -- just use stuff that doesn't break.

William James: I dig, Rorty. You know hermeneutics can get pretty Foucault sometimes. Keep on trucking, atmo.

[catulle]

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Cool, bro, but nothing paradoxical about sex in the hood, atmo. Onward, upward, forward together (B. Marley, 1970). Hey, BTW, thank you, bro, I finally found out what I want to do when I grow up. I want to be a deconstruction worker, atmo. I bet I can do that in Provo, atmo.

[Louis]

If you can now explain Lacan I'd appreciate it...

[Serpico]

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Hey, BTW, thank you, bro, I finally found out what I want to do when I grow up. I want to be a deconstruction worker, atmo.

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funny, in second grade on "career day" I said I wanted to either study semiotics or become a hermeneuticist--all the other kids looked at me like I was nuts

[catulle]

If you can now explain Lacan I'd appreciate it...

Ask Wittgenstein. Besides, Lacan suffered from penis envy, atmo.

[catulle]

Hey, Denise Richards is waiting, I gotta go, atmo. Diogenes sent her my way, iirc. Sleep with the angels. Peace and love.

[Louis]

I'm still working to get past the mirror stage...