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Old 02-21-2007, 08:45 PM
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$30 bike - 11 times round world.

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It all goes very well until the very end.
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Old 02-21-2007, 08:49 PM
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It all goes very well until the very end.

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Not wishing to be a stick in the mud, we disrobed and rode around as nature intended.
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Old 02-21-2007, 11:15 PM
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I loved that.
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Old 02-22-2007, 06:43 AM
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great story. i wanna read the follow up when the dropout breaks off or something in 1,200 miles or something.
nothing sold these days would be capable of what those " all steel" bikes in the day were capable of.
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Old 02-22-2007, 07:59 AM
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Gee, I thought the end was the perk:

"But the end of the road is nigh for the Rotrax, Mr Hopkins having spent almost £1,400 on a new American-made Trek bike."

Not like he didn't deserve it or anything:-)
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