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September 08, 2009
Tom (from DC)
I have a liter I for you.
- Alain, Nice, France
September 08, 2009
funny that your feelings were hurt so much. were you lifting up your skirt to pee?
- bc, so
September 05, 2009
It was asked last month what were points of frustration with the new cyclingnews that you could discuss with one of their representatives. I gave some points at the time, but since then I've noticed more and more school boy errors appearing. Two today alone. 1, "Sanchez hasn't done much yet this summer, but he proved that his home Tour is the focus of his season by putting in the best time trial performance of his career to take sixth on Saturday's rainy test." Surely his best TT would have been when he won the final TT in 07 to snatch 3rd on GC from Evans. 2, "Pozzato...third in Paris-Roubaix." Uh, no he was 2nd. Hushovd was third. If the format is not driving readers away, then the poor reporting must be pushing them out the door.
- adam, hamilton
September 04, 2009
I was about to write a comment, instead I'm going to pull over and drain it...
- Joe, Charleston
September 04, 2009
Hmm, Cali riders not being friendly to a non local? Im shocked ( sarcasm intended )! My bro lives in Sacramento, used to bring my bike and ride local rides when visiting him. Now, maybe im old school, but we in Philly judge a rider by strentgh, not how they are dressed/what they ride. When I'd ride in Cali, I could pull all ride and hammer on a training ride/race and drop most of the group, but God forbid you pull off too early or forget to call out a shadow or not call out the local motorcycle club coming up from behind even though the 37 HoGs could be heard for miles around. Oh well, they can have their state. Cali is too weird for me, i'll stick where we kill people for spilling beers on someone by accident. (sarcasm again, sorry)
1 last thing, Garm*n still aint gonna do anything big this year.
- Hung Low, Killadelphia Pa
September 03, 2009
Based on your writing here is what I can gather about you as a rider - you pee in the open and you liter. This isn't going well for you. I am sorry, but I can't name one cool person who does both of those, conversely I can name a lot of slow, lame riders that do one or both of them.
- Tom, DC
September 03, 2009
Great read there, i think its called 'taking dramatic license' to all those rather incensed SoCals. Here in the Great White North there used to be a charge of Public Exposure if you took a leak in public, sure in some cases it may have been justified, but that all seems to have gone by the wayside. That said I do remember summer holidays in France and Belgium where you really do not want to stop at those roadside lay-bys, those got really bad, guess it saved water though.
Another good blog to chuckle over, keep it coming.
- Marc, Toronto
September 02, 2009
To "The Swami" from Carlsbad-
I've pissed on Main Street before- it's not like it's a "glorious " part of Little Rock- matter of fact- I'm going street riding tonight and rest assured I'm pissing on Main street just because...bout to down a BIG bottle of water now in preparation.
- E to the two, The Rock
September 02, 2009
This is good info to know. A few months ago I spent a weekend down that way and rode from La Jolla to Oceanside round trip and the Iceman factor among roadies was way off the charts. 60 mile ride and not a single hello. Next time, I'll just pee in the street and make some new friends.
- Bobby, Los Angeles
September 02, 2009
After Sept. 7, take the the ladies from "SoCal" on a group ride over there in the Independent State of Samoa. Pissing directly into ones chamois will become the order of the day. If they survive the ordeal, even the most narcissistic tofu-bean sprout-eating self-fellator amongst them will be hankering for a big ol' hunk of Belgian horsemeat and ready to drain the lizard in the middle of Rodeo Drive.
- PawleeWalnutz, NYC, The Place To Pee
September 02, 2009
The fact that "you were a guest" on "one of the most hallowed places to ride in so cal" really drives the "limber people" point home! I got tired of that elitist bullshit that almost every cyclist in SoCal seems to have (Yeah, I'm talking about you!) It's a fuckin' road, dude! I gotta move to Belgium, where I might not get an even tan, but at least I'll be able to keep my balls!
- Michael, VA
September 02, 2009
Hahaha...I love it! I began my cycling career in Tennessee following "TN Rules of Public Urination" which, I'm positive, are similar to those in Arkansas! (Which is to say....if you gotta go. GO!) I lived in San Diego over the past year though, and can' tell you how many miserable miles I've rode around La Jolla, Encinitas and Carlsbad just hoping that the next bathroom or port-a-john would be around the next corner! Eventually I learned every spot along the SDBC club route that I could spring a leak! (I always felt a little out of place going into a gas station to pee. I was so used to just watering the grass out back!) Sounds like maybe next time you head out to San Diego, you should ride out in east county (Honey Springs/ Skyline Truck Trail is my fav) where you're a little more free to piss at will. Or just do like I do now, and stay here in the South where we're free to relieve ourselves any ol' place we choose!
- Scott, Sparta, TN
September 01, 2009
I'm goin' to SoCal where I will hook on to that group ride, drop them on a hill, stop and drop a nice steamy pile of shit in the bike lane for all to enjoy.
- Coop, BH
September 01, 2009
Hey Gorgeous, I know just what your sayin'. Last week I got yelled at for pissing in the gym shower. Bunch of wankers. Anyhow next time your in SD come out to the infamous Swamis ride with the big boys. If it doesn't knock the piss out of you as you get dropped through the forest you can drain the main vein at the church. Nothing more liberating and Belg than pissing on the house of God - it beats the pants off of pissing in a public park. Piss freely brother.
- The Guru of Cycling, Encinitas, CA
September 01, 2009
Dude, public urination is cool on a country road, it super silly when you just passed about 3 bathrooms in the last mile and there was one about 20 yards away. The road you were on is one of the hallowed places to ride in so cal. Do you whip it out on main street in Little Rock? You were a guest and show a little respect.
- the swami, Carlsbad, ca
September 01, 2009
I've got a tiny bladder, so on training rides I just look for a somewhat secluded spot. But for road races, I had to master the on-bike pee. I've even been asked by other desperate racers for instructions during races. So I posted them step by step on my team blog: http://ritteracing.blogspot.com/2009/08/art-of-riding-sideways.html ...Forgive me for posting a link... but it's topical ; )
I'm in SoCal, and sometimes the cops around here are itching to find reasons to hassle us. I'm as careful as I can be on training rides and racing, but if the day comes that I get caught, I just hope I don't get arrested.
- Spencer, Santa Monica
September 01, 2009
So you are judging SoCal cycling based on the fact that we prefer to piss in reststops as opposed to the roadside? That seems a bit elitist. We constantly battle for our rights as cyclists and therefore we try our best to have those who do not ride respect us. Maybe the group you were with felt that someone seeing you pee by the side of the road would use this as ammunition as to why cyclists should not be accorded the same rights as drivers. Maybe there was an ongoing issue of which you were not aware. When in Rome...
- Peter, Los Angeles
September 01, 2009
We piss on the side of the road all the time when there aren't bathrooms around.
- Jared, Los Angeles
September 01, 2009
Bullshit story about so cal. Born and raised there and raced for San Diego Bike Club for over 15 years. While riding you do what you need to do, pee on your bike or pull over. No different than any other place I have ridden around the country. I think you were trying to find sattire in the fact that you got sensitive about other riders who didn't know you. DRIVE ON!
- bill, nor cal
September 01, 2009
Just piss off the bike. Most onlookers have no idea you're doing it, cause they wouldn't think it was possible. If you ever tried to explain how to do it to a non-racer, you would know how clueless most non-cyclists are; or move to Europe, where most guys would laugh at the idea of writing a whole column about something as natural as a roadside piss when you need it.
- Andy, Stockholm, Sweden
September 01, 2009
Its not just me. Somebody else gets it. When I moved away from San Diego people looked at me as if I had two heads. "Dude, the weather?!" "Dude, the chicks?!" For me it was tiring trying to figure out how so many people could be so limber. With all the auto-fellatio going on, it was my only conclusion.
- Dave , Naples
September 01, 2009
In most of europe, you pee just about anywhere by the side of the road. riders in the tour of lankawi get fined, and even kicked off the race for urination in the wrong place! I think its more down to of a choice if place rather than to do or do not, just look at the guys in the tour... My old local gruppeto in sanse, madrid, have a couple of designated spots, outside of towns, and not full of people.and half of the guys are pros. but, to tow along a group, and not one of them be able to tell you where to be able to pee, and bitch at you.. sounds very much like you had an encounter with the wheelsuckeirus pouserius!
- robert, alicante, spain
September 01, 2009
Interesting comment about SoCal - does this mentality go East to Boulder? I was just there climbing Flagstaff with a good friend (originally from the East Coast). I said, "Before we start climbing, I have to take a leak." He said, "Hang on - the lead up is a residential area." We get 3/4 of the way to the top of Flagstaff - I am in pain - and he pulls over and said, "There's a bathroom." This was one of the more puzzling episodes of my life - on the East Coast - I would not have given it too much thought to go roadside regardless of where we were along the route. Must go to Belgium.
- Bruce, Acton, MA
August 31, 2009
The politics of peeing. I love it. I am a little modest myself, but some of my crew will hose down anything. I think the best part of the California story is, that in a state that is nearly bankrupt, you have to watch where you do your business, but their elected officials openly piss the people's money away.
- Jason, Detroit
August 31, 2009
Ok I admit it, I was one of the gang of locals that you pulled (draged) along into the headwind for umpteen miles of an "easy" spin (where easy spin is the same as ass-rape is to a fun date).
I didnt get to say it then but, thanks for the pull errrr...ass kicking! As for the public urination scolding... bro- you picked a really bad place to unfurl the hose. Considering it was perhaps the busiest day of the year at the very crowded camp ground with lots of people and lots of little kids running around, we probably saved you a stint in the OC county lockup and a lifetime of registering with the national sex offender database. Seriously though thanks for the pull and the ride I had a blast!
- Bryon, Carlsbad
August 31, 2009
belgian cyclists piss on the side of the road because belgians in general do it. driving down any of their well lit highways or shitty cowpaths alike, and you are going to see cars pulled over and people pissing inches from the road. priorite a droit, where traffic entering from the right has the right of way, pissing on public motorways and weekly bathing habits are just cultural gems of the nation.
- craig, boston
August 31, 2009
California. Piss on it...
- Brent, Madison, WI
August 31, 2009
As a So Cal native now living in the south of France, I can say roadside pissing is a national past time not only in Belgium. At least you could motivate to ride back there. During a just-ended return visit to L.A all I could do was muster the will for three short rides along the beach and I was over it, so good is the riding here. I'm just calling it my off season. The much missed mexican food was a lot easier to get psyched for though.
- Bruce, Los Angeles/Averyon
August 31, 2009
I live and ride and pee in socal, The next time your here piss anywhere you like. Those yahoo`s you pulled along sound like a bunch of conservitive dentist`s. Or pee on the bike while you are taking a pull.........
- dikfer, costa mesa
August 31, 2009
"Thanks again for the beating" What kind of urination where you doing?
Sorry... couldn't resist.
- Robert, Seattle
August 31, 2009
That's ridiculous. When you need to go, you need to go. There isn't always a "sanctioned place" to go, so what options do you have? I'm curious as to what they do when they need to but don't have a place. Next time, piss in a bottle and switch it out with one of theirs.
I can't believe they're switching from right to left. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagen_H
- Chris, Brooklyn
August 31, 2009
Just a little ribbing, Brendan.But in this state, Public Urination will get you "Sex Offender" status. We were just looking out for you. :) Thanks again for the beating
- John, Enicinitas
August 31, 2009
The best ever, e to the f
- AZ, BH
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