What happened to the bike boom?

John B. writes:

Who was it that said, "the more things change the
more they stay the same".

Indeed, who said it? I have used that quote myself and
had/have no idea. Anyway it is true. Probably in the
stone age some guys were sitting by the camp fire
musing some phrase and wondering who said it first.
Could it be the guy in the other cave? No, older than
that I think...

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On 28/06/2017 3:45 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote:
John B. writes:

Who was it that said, "the more things change the
more they stay the same".

Indeed, who said it? I have used that quote myself and
had/have no idea. Anyway it is true. Probably in the
stone age some guys were sitting by the camp fire
musing some phrase and wondering who said it first.
Could it be the guy in the other cave? No, older than
that I think...


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-B..._Alphonse_Karr

I had to look it up the first time I heard it in french and mistakenly
told someone I thought it was an anglicism.

Heisenberg indeed!

https://www.google.com/search?q=new+...7aGX09bPZruKM:

On Wednesday, June 28, 2017 at 12:45:47 PM UTC-7, Emanuel Berg wrote:
John B. writes:

Who was it that said, "the more things change the
more they stay the same".

Indeed, who said it? I have used that quote myself and
had/have no idea. Anyway it is true. Probably in the
stone age some guys were sitting by the camp fire
musing some phrase and wondering who said it first.
Could it be the guy in the other cave? No, older than
that I think...

It was Rush, from the song "Freewill"

C is a moron

On Wednesday, June 28, 2017 at 4:33:46 PM UTC-7, wrote:
C is a moron

https://www.google.com/search?q=char...nX6t T6mb06M:

C. the Heisenberg comment is humor tween Frank n me

The Tour de France starts in a couple
of days.

I've seen a couple of documentaries on YT and
I can understand the appeal to road bike riders
and to the people who live in a region thru
witch the race passes.

Myself, I feel unrelated tho, and I always
considered sport stars to be a bunch of spoiled
and one-dimensional brats. Sports is great to
do but I don't follow them as a fan.

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On Thu, 29 Jun 2017 03:08:11 +0200, Emanuel Berg
wrote:

The Tour de France starts in a couple
of days.

I've seen a couple of documentaries on YT and
I can understand the appeal to road bike riders
and to the people who live in a region thru
witch the race passes.

Myself, I feel unrelated tho, and I always
considered sport stars to be a bunch of spoiled
and one-dimensional brats. Sports is great to
do but I don't follow them as a fan.

I suspect that one would find anyone at the top of any endeavor to be
pretty much one-dimensional. After all, to become "the best in the
world" takes a tremendous amount of time and energy leaving little
time for anything else.
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John B.

John B. wrote:

I suspect that one would find anyone at the
top of any endeavor to be pretty much
one-dimensional. After all, to become "the
best in the world" takes a tremendous amount
of time and energy leaving little time for
anything else.

With sports, yes.

But for example Neil Armstrong, Stephen King,
Reinhold Messner? Pretty much on top of
their games.

Might have something to do with the age factor.
If you do one thing from early age and with
such success, fame and the extreme focus on
something that actually is many, many times
less complex than normal life - you don't
grow up.

Michael Jackson. An extreme example - I don't
think the Tour de France guys are like that.
His onedimensionalness came with
a multidimensional twist...

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