Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Is Bicycling just for leftist, liberal, dems?

What do you think?

What a steaming pile of hot garbage.

Yeah. I was an avid runner for years. Habit I picked up in the Marine Corps. No serious competition or social events. Just running after work on the local farm to market road. Enjoying the scenery.

Do you stay up at night wondering about this?

It is amazing how so many people equate this activity or that to the political spectrum. It seems rather convoluted to me.

You’re running out of sock puppets.

I give it 2 weeks and this sock get’s hammered by Bin.

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Say howdy to Happy Clap for me.

I ride mtn bikes because I like to, even though I’m a Republican.

Rode The Palisade Plunge yesterday.

I ride my bike to work.

I live smack dab in the confluence of three 'wild rivers' and 5 wilderness areas, intersected by the yuppie freeway, the Pacific Crest Trail. The dimmest observer can easily note the frequency of certain outdoor activities with political stances. The dead giveaway is the Subaru fetish, probably 2/3 vehicles are Subaru suv's with all the appropriate stickers, you know, Free Tibet, CoExist, Constant War (the only one I like)Whirled Peas in our lifetime...etc. Just in case that isn't a clue, then we have the almost mandatory Thule roof carrier, the slightly lower class Yakima Rocket Box. If that doesn't nail it down yet, then we have the bike rack, kayak rack, and of course ski rack. In many years moving cattle twice a year over a stretch of the Pacific Crest, I have on many occasions engaged in conversations with these hardy folk. In all those years, One (1) older man was packing a Smith, asked if I had any spare T bone steaks, good sense of humor, and was obviously conservative. He did not chide me on not potty training cows and calves to not schidt on their trail. Safe to assume the vast majority of urban college pukes are socialist idiots around here.

The fact that a lot of Liberals or lefties get attracted to a certain activity such as cycling for reasons that they do, doesn't mean that there is not also a lot of Conservatives or right-wingers who also get attracted to that same activity but for different reasons. I was speaking to a guide in a hunting camp recently and he told me that often he gets clients who are gay or lesbians (yeah I know they're gay too) who hunt. That doesn't mean that all hunters are gay does it?

I'm not a cyclist. But I like to go for a bike ride. Right now my favourite ride is a 1973 CCM Elite 5-speed.

Nothing like attaching politics to inanimate objects.

Reminds me of the "assault weapons" debate.

R’s tend to be overweight and do not like physical activity.

Nuff said.

The only bike the will touch are E bikes

Sun Valley/Ketchum, ID - Idaho's blue county, full of ultra lefties. Bikes everywhere. They all wear the uniform - a foo foo suit and a helmet with a tapered back end. They ride many miles, mainly to get in shape for ski season. Most of them are unquestionably in very good shape. What kind of job does a guy in his 30's hold that gives him the time to ride enough miles to do what they do? You can see them any day of the week 40 miles from town climbing steep hills and they normally don't carry the bikes there on a Mercedes. They ride them there and back.

Yes. Working can definitely be detrimental to a healthy lifestyle. It's a fault we have.

I went to work with my daughter last week up there, she trains rich peoples cutting horses for them. It was the week of the annual "Billionaire Summer Camp". I never had any idea what a Learjet traffic jam looked like before. I guess they all go, Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Buffett etc, etc. I thought maybe some would like ol' Flint's take on this-n-that, kept my phone on, but nobody called, go figure.

Every year they have a big media confab called the Allen Conference in Sun Valley. All the big wigs in media are there. I was by there one year during the conference and counted more than 75 private jets parked along the airport fence. Air pollution only applies to the little guy.

I thought of Western Juniper on my 35 mile ride this morning.

I have been in AK for 2 weeks in 50-60 degree temps. I needed a good ride, but wasn't looking forward to 90+ degree temps. With the three hour time difference, I wasn't quite back in my routine. I like to start my rides at 6:30, that way I don't have to contend with traffic and oppressive heat. I didn't wake up until 6:30. I scrambled to get going, forcing a dump before I rolled out.

The ride was harder than it should have been. 2 weeks with no cardio shouldn't have found me feeling that sluggish. Most of the ride was on dedicated bike paths. Some of it was on city streets. I have one 1/4 mile stretch with moderate traffic. It's divided 3 lane. I can almost keep up with traffic by sprinting. I have to set up in the left most lane to turn left. If anyone is behind me, I give my turn signal to let them know I am not being a left lane hogging dick. Today a moron didn't seem to understand and blew his horn at me. Oddly he wasn't driving a full size Chevy/GMC pickup or SUV.

When I rode through River Town Kenner, I saw a good looking Latin woman taking pictures at a little park. She turned toward me a flashed a pretty smile as I was looking at her. I took a left so that my back was facing her. I looked back over my shoulder to find her taking a pic in my direction. Probably just wanted a pic of the street. It had fresh asphalt.

Oh. I almost forgot how this relates to Western Juniper. I mentioned that I forced a dump this morning. Well, apparently it wasn't bowel cleansing enough. About 10 miles into my ride, I felt an undeniable gut rumbling. There was no way in hell that I was going to make it to a restroom. No worries, the Coast Guard motto is Semper Paratus, Always Ready. I rode off of the levee and into a little wooded area. I keep TP in my pouch. Well, I had just switched out pouches. NO TP!!! I do keep some tools wrapped up in an old sock to keep them from rattling around. It would have to do. No sooner than I had got my spandex shorts pulled below my knees, Poltergeist came flying out of my ass with a fury. It was like high velocity, soft serve marsh mud. That's when Juniper came to mind. A steaming pile of hot garbage. The sock did a great job.

Take a look at the liberal color scheme on my American made titanium bike.

Only commies ride bicycles. Reminds me I need to put mine in the shop.

Just keep OFF the road!!!!!!

Too many bike idiots risk their lives riding on roads with cars, legal or not!

If this is you, you're a fool who will live a short life at your own stupidity!