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From: Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: men in women's bicycle races
Date: 12 May 2025 18:33:19 GMT
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Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@gXXmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/12/2025 12:30 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>> 
>> [note for political junkies: National 55 was dreamed up by a Republican 
>> and sent to its deserved end by a Democrat.]
> Right. At an end-of-semester department lunch event, two of our right 
> wing faculty members were adamantly blaming Carter for the 55 MPH 
> national limit. I was positive it was instituted by Nixon, and said so, 
> explaining that was a time my wife had returned to school and we had 
> paid attention to how 55 affected both her driving time and gas mileage.
> 
> Eventually, one of those two guys returned to the office, checked his 
> facts via the web, and apologized to me, saying I was correct.
> 
> That was a behavior almost never seen in this discussion group.
> 

Andrew is good for that, talking of which he commented on front mech’s
being worn though which i was surprised by, but recently had to replace the
Gravel bikes front mech as after nearly 12K miles and you do tend to cross
chain off road, I’d worn though or at least thin!

Roger Merriman