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Café Pedro 2: Revenge of the Portuguese
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 22-01-2011 10:57
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| issoisso |
Posted on 23-01-2011 04:54
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Duke now has a release date
*marks May 3rd on the calendar*
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| Immortal |
Posted on 23-01-2011 11:54
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So, the Mayans were off by about a year and a half then?
Still, impressive. They easily beat Jehovah's Witnesses
Edited by Immortal on 23-01-2011 11:54
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| Aquarius |
Posted on 23-01-2011 12:07
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CrueTrue wrote:
So, 1½ year ago I was at a stag party with my brother-in-law. For whatever reason, I said I would easily destroy him if we went to France and climbed Mont Ventoux. The challenge was accepted, and we've tried to find a proper date since then. We finally sorted it out, and we're going on the 1st of June (although not to Ventoux, but to the Alp d'Huez area instead).
The only problem? He has been up several other mountains before. Me? Never. And I'm playing American football. Not really the kind of guy who should sit on a bike and try to get up tough mountains. I don't even own a race bike. If I remember well, you an borrow bikes in Bourg d'Oisans, but of course it's better to have your own (you're used to the position, it's your size, etc.).
First time I climbed it, well, I had started cycling again a couple of months earlier, it was my first time in the mountains, we had climbed Les Deux Alpes in the morning. There was a cold wind up there. One of my toughest moments on a bike. 1h32 or something from the bridge at the start of the climb to the official TDF finish line.  One year later it'd have been like 30 or 35 minutes less (and 5 or 7 years earlier it'd have been something around 45 or 50 minutes).
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 23-01-2011 20:41
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I am probably going to rent a bike, but I'm also looking into the possibility of buying one. As most people interested in cycling, I always get interested in buying one during the Tour de France until I convince myself that it's smarter to wait a couple of months until the 2010 bikes go on sale.
By then, it's cold and the interest is gone
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| Aquarius |
Posted on 23-01-2011 21:30
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400-500 € should be a reasonable price, lower than that you'll get a crappy bike, no automatic clips, etc. Above might not be necessary. Then it's mostly a matter of tastes, and how you feel while sitting on the bike. |
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| Thrige |
Posted on 23-01-2011 21:44
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If you want to buy a new race bike, you aint getting anywhere with 500€ in Denmark  (of course in Danish currency ).
If you just want a bike - nothing fancy - I'd say a Trek Bike. It's probably the best starter bike out there.
But if it has to be better than that go check out Canyon's website. They're having a very appealing Roadlite series. |
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| issoisso |
Posted on 24-01-2011 09:55
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Oddly enough, I spotted this article on another forum today after it was posted by....an american
https://www.boston...?page=full
Interesting stuff
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 24-01-2011 12:10
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So, has the Nigerian scam moved to Isle of Man? Got a call from (+44)19 28 70 63 00 today. I didn't bother answering the call, but I can see that other people have received calls from that number too (https://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.as...1928706300). |
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| Deadpool |
Posted on 24-01-2011 12:18
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Thrige wrote:
If you want to buy a new race bike, you aint getting anywhere with 500€ in Denmark (of course in Danish currency ).
If you just want a bike - nothing fancy - I'd say a Trek Bike. It's probably the best starter bike out there.
But if it has to be better than that go check out Canyon's website. They're having a very appealing Roadlite series.
The Trek 1.5 is a great starting bike. Retails for about $1100 US dollars here. |
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| kumazan |
Posted on 24-01-2011 12:39
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CrueTrue wrote:
So, has the Nigerian scam moved to Isle of Man? Got a call from (+44)19 28 70 63 00 today. I didn't bother answering the call, but I can see that other people have received calls from that number too ( https://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.as...1928706300).
Just one call? You're lucky. Movistar's South American semi-slaves have been torturing me lately, with 2/3 calls per day. God, how I hate that company. |
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| issoisso |
Posted on 25-01-2011 09:58
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Sunday was Presidential Election day here and....well, let's just say some of us weren't comfortable with any of the standard candidates
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| issoisso |
Posted on 25-01-2011 10:52
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"3 degrees and windy. Feels like 1"
This. Is. Not. Normal.
Note to self: don't come to work in a shirt.
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| kumazan |
Posted on 25-01-2011 11:18
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It's -2 degrees here. It's been a while since the last time I had seen the "-" sign in my thermometer.
And I'm sure Chuck Norris wouldn't want to be the president of Portugal. It'd create a conflict of interests with being god, as much as someone shouldn't be president of the UCI with his son being a cyclists' agent. Ouch! |
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Posted on 25-01-2011 11:25
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Well. 4°C here but also a feeling of "-" with all the heavy wind.
Doesn`t happy to often that in the North of Germany it`s warmer than in Spain or Portugal. |
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| roturn |
Posted on 25-01-2011 14:08
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roturn wrote:
Well. 4°C here but also a feeling of "-" with all the heavy wind.
Doesn`t happy to often that in the North of Germany it`s warmer than in Spain or Portugal.
I must quote myself. In the last 3 hours it became much colder and now it even started snowing again 
What a crazy weather at the moment. |
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| Rin |
Posted on 25-01-2011 14:20
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The sun shines in cologne but also just 4°
We say here the sun laughs (laugh = sun shines bright) about/over Cologne, about Düsseldorf the whole world
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| schleck93 |
Posted on 25-01-2011 15:09
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roturn wrote:
Well. 4°C here but also a feeling of "-" with all the heavy wind.
Doesn`t happy to often that in the North of Germany it`s warmer than in Spain or Portugal.
Doesn't happen often that it is warmer in Greenland than in Spain and Portugal.
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| Crommy |
Posted on 25-01-2011 15:32
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Currently trying (and failing) to program in Occam.
Such a horrific programming language 
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| roturn |
Posted on 25-01-2011 15:40
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I write a exam on Thursday with a simple program using C+ and I will fail 
Don`t even think about using harder programming languages. |
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