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Old 05-19-2008, 02:51 PM
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Originally Posted by the_fat_man
In my 30 years of watching races

BB is to most horses

what a geared bike is to a fixed gear bike.

When you ride geared, the gears do a good deal of the work for you; you can stop and start and coast with relative ease. Riding fixed gear, YOU do all the work, and stopping and starting takes a significant amount of energy; and you can't coast.

All the other stuff is irrelevant or banal.
Hey FAT - Barbaro, Bernardini, Curlin or Brown ??
in what order
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