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Old 03-21-2018, 10:35 PM
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The life and death of the L.A. Wolfpack Marathon Crash Race

https://cyclingtips.com/2018/03/bare...on-crash-race/

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It’s like a regular bike race, expect that it’s nothing like a regular bike race. The course is bathed in shadows and street lights and neon and the flashers of a cop car up ahead. Road racers and fixed-gear racers dive into high-speed corners on different lines, and the air is redolent with the smell of burning rubber as fixies skid and slide through the fast turns. Everyone is racing in the dark and the broad streets are littered with road furniture and the marathon course is surprisingly full of people setting up drink stations and unloading porta potties. There are crashes every few minutes — you see people catapulting onto sidewalks and you hear the sound of carbon fiber fracturing.
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Old 03-21-2018, 10:38 PM
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Sweet typo brah!

Dude certainly has a flair for hyperbole.
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Old 03-22-2018, 06:54 AM
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Video. https://vimeo.com/23613093#at=513
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Old 03-22-2018, 07:21 AM
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That Sasquatch-Thorfinch whatever guy's clothes make an appearance in this article.
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Old 03-22-2018, 07:51 AM
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fun fact: don ward played guitar (not bass) in one of the very first nu metal bands ever.
fun fact: don drew alot of the grafitti you see all over los santos in grand theft auto 5.

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Old 03-22-2018, 08:04 AM
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Dunno, whole concept of the event and weekly practice seems like Darwin at work, heck...pulling overtime

Sort of a vignette for making sure you have good health coverage or something. To each their own
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Old 03-22-2018, 12:01 PM
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fun fact: don ward played bass in one of the very first nu metal bands ever.
fun fact: don drew alot of the grafitti you see all over los santos in grand theft auto 5.
DW was in Living Colour?

King's X?

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Old 03-22-2018, 12:19 PM
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Huh.

I guess I just don't "get" the glorification of pretentious idiocy.


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Old 03-22-2018, 12:24 PM
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DW was in Living Colour?
King's X?

played guitar in SOCIAL JUSTICE who then broke up or whatever and turned into DOWNSET.
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Old 03-22-2018, 12:25 PM
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anger. hostility towards the opposition.
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