If you were a team manager...

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Edited Date/Time 4/1/2014 10:14am
Would you take the bikes out during a break?...
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Socket946 3/31/2014 9:18pm
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Take them where? To dinner and a nice movie?

You'd think as team manager, there is a backup bike you can snag anytime you want...

What team managers these days ride fairly often?
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Big Lenny 3/31/2014 9:45pm
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Socket946 wrote:
Take them where? To dinner and a nice movie? You'd think as team manager, there is a backup bike you can snag anytime you want... What...
Take them where? To dinner and a nice movie?

You'd think as team manager, there is a backup bike you can snag anytime you want...

What team managers these days ride fairly often?
Gotdamn you ask a lot of questions...Blink
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jeffro503 3/31/2014 9:49pm
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Len.....you mean the full on race bikes?
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smoker 3/31/2014 9:52pm
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Like one of the 15 min breaks or lunch break?

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Big Lenny 3/31/2014 11:27pm
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smoker wrote:
Like one of the 15 min breaks or lunch break?
Yeah any of the top 5 full on works bikes for a spin during lunch...
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Seamorbutts 3/31/2014 11:30pm
3/31/2014 11:30pm Edited Date/Time 3/31/2014 11:34pm
If they had a problem with the bike, you might have to ride it sometimes to get a feel of what its doing. Besides that, no...

Now, did I pass the test?
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Sully 3/31/2014 11:51pm
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I don't need to ride James' bike to know I wouldn't like a bike with a front end that stiff. I think I'd rather have some of the best mechanics in the business build me a bike to my specifications/riding ability.
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Socket946 4/1/2014 7:30am
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I would say no. As a team manager, I wouldn't want to.

That bike is valved and sprung for a rider that is a different weight, and a DRASTICALLY different speed than me.

But if I'm also the boss, then I am building a bike for myself! Smile
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pummel 4/1/2014 7:50am
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Depends on who the Team Manager is. Larocco rides the bikes, DV I'm sure rode his bikes. Don't think Kenny Watson rides team bikes.
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TJ 755 4/1/2014 9:10am
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smoker wrote:
Like one of the 15 min breaks or lunch break?
Big Lenny wrote:
Yeah any of the top 5 full on works bikes for a spin during lunch...
Only in flip flops in front of Comptons finest
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dsmith 4/1/2014 10:00am
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no!...there would be a 10 foot radius roped off with caution tape around my bikes if i was a manager of a team.
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Big Lenny 4/1/2014 10:08am
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Socket946 wrote:
I would say no. As a team manager, I wouldn't want to. That bike is valved and sprung for a rider that is a different weight...
I would say no. As a team manager, I wouldn't want to.

That bike is valved and sprung for a rider that is a different weight, and a DRASTICALLY different speed than me.

But if I'm also the boss, then I am building a bike for myself! Smile
So you've never ridden a buddy's bike that was a different weight or skill level than you?...
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jndmx 4/1/2014 10:14am
4/1/2014 10:14am Edited Date/Time 4/1/2014 10:14am
So if you're taking a break in a break in the action while on a break and you break the brake have you broken a brake or is it the break that has now been broken by the broken brake?

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