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  1. towelie

    HOLY CRAP! I Just Won $500,000 dollars!

    Bad A$$! I'd start spending right away. Nice "Starship Troopers" sexy/gross avatar, BTW.
  2. towelie

    What is the most spectator friendly cycling discipline?

    1) BMX Half Pipe- can be done anywhere, great action, and it is all in one spot 2) Trials 3) Anything in the Velodrome. However, only cycling fans who'd normally go to the races anyway will buy seats in a velodrome.
  3. towelie

    My horst link is all hype...

    Well, naturally the closer the Horst Link is to the axle, this less difference it'll make. It should move a little though. Try to measure the difference in distance between your BB pivot and your upper seatstay pivot. Any movement will be amplified there. It probably move a little. That...
  4. towelie

    Stolen Bike Alert for California Re-posted from local Forum

    I'm a SB guy (Lompoc), so I'll keep an eye out. Few things are as infuriating as this- I know from experience. Do you have a photo of the bike. It might help me recognize it from a distance. I'm not sure what I'd do if I actually saw somebody riding it unless I was POSITIVE I recognized it...
  5. towelie

    Windows Vista - Holy Crap!

    I bought my computer in the fall of 99 (Athlon 550 overclocked to 600, RAM upgraded from 128 to 384, 80 GB drive supplementing the original 16, upgraded from Win 98SE to ME to XP- finally stable on XP). Anyway, it took me a few years to get this thing operating stably (rock solid now), but it...
  6. towelie

    Crash Testing: MINI Cooper vs Ford F150

    Yeah- the '97-03 F-150 did terrible in crash test (the new one does awesome though). The Mini does pretty good on the crash tests (though not as good as a Mazda 3). That said, the vehicles were crashed into a fixed, offset barrier. They only needed to absorb their own energy. In a collision...
  7. towelie

    Worst Date stories

    Wow...my story can't top most of these, but this one was...interesting. During my senior year of high school, there was this exchange student from Belgium I liked. It was a dreary Pacific Northwest day, so we decided to go see a movie. The only place that was still showing the movie she...
  8. towelie

    Michael Jackson Jury Reaches Verdicts

    Sure. I'll agree with that. Like I said- he is a creepy dude.
  9. towelie

    Michael Jackson Jury Reaches Verdicts

    Yeah- you guys are right. We should prosecute based on what we think and what our hunches tell us rather than based on evidence. Maybe we should just get rid of trials all together and go straight from accusation to prosecution?
  10. towelie

    Michael Jackson Jury Reaches Verdicts

    OK...I'll go against the grain here. How about this? Wow- we really have some judgemental people here! Either that or a whole bunch of psychics. How are some of you so sure he is guilty? Because the TV tells you? Because some kid said so? Because he is a creepy dude? You don't have any...
  11. towelie

    30-year mortgages falling... time to buy?

    Well, I'm in the military, so unless I want to rent this place out (not a good idea with an ARM), I HAVE to sell next year. So, I'm pretty confident I'll have to sell, bestiboy. Damn I'd love to lock in a 5% 30 year fixed though! I love living here, too. Sort of frustrating :( BTW- I was...
  12. towelie

    Having kids?

    It really depends on what you mean by "financially set". If you're in deep consumer debt, or couldn't imagine lowering your standard of living, or living off of one income, then don't. Fact is, ther'll be less money for the two of you, and ideally one of you should probably not work for the...
  13. towelie

    30-year mortgages falling... time to buy?

    A year ago I got a house about an hour north of Santa Barbara for $356k (1750 sq ft. suburban house in middle-class neighborhood). Got a 3.375 percent 3/1 ARM! I only put 5% down, and I got a home equitly line of credit for the other 15% of the down payment at about 5.3%. The other 80% of...
  14. towelie

    Chappelle's Show is a no-go, bitch!

    This sucks. IT is an awesomely funny show. I like everything but the lil John (nothing but annoying repetition) and playa hata sketches. My favorite is the Prince sketch. I love it when he dunks behind his head, says "Game....blouses", then hangs from the rim with two hands, then one, then...
  15. towelie

    Lucas calls new 'Star Wars' a titanic tearjerker

    Yeah- me 3. Fellow 1977'er here, and I grew up with these movies and have them all on DVD. I can't wait until May 19th. You know, I think at this point though I like them more for nostalgic reasons than for the movie itself. The dialog on ALL of them is pretty cheesy. "Scruffy looking...
  16. towelie

    Guinness Question

    Also, read the label on the can. You need to open it and then IMMEDIEATELY pour it into a glass. No drinking from the can, or it'll be kind of flat. With the rocket widget, it releases a little N2 every time the bottle is tipped, so you can drink directly from the bottle.
  17. towelie

    Ferrets are mean little basturds

    In college, my landlord wouldn't let us have a dog. I still really missed having a pet though, and ferrets looked interesting. Amazingly, he let us get some. Ours were full grown. Ferrets are hilarious, but they are mischevious little devils. They were always getting into everything...under...
  18. towelie

    Satellite TV - DirecTV vs. Dish?

    I have Dish Network. I picked it over Direct TV because I can get the Top 60 channels + my local channels for $26/mo. With Direct TV, you MUST get the $40something 220 channel package, which only includes about 5 or 6 more channels that I want but don't have. You can get the big package for...
  19. towelie

    Suspension: What ever happened to "falling rate" designs?

    Hmmm...I was just thinking about something that may through a wrench into the works here. While my statement a few pages back says essentially the same thing spitfire just said, I think we may be neglecting something important. That is, the further the swingarm gets from horizontal...
  20. towelie

    We Crippled wit' INDIFFERENCE... v1.0

    I don't know....maybe later. I want to see if there is anything on TV first.