Spotted a trike - Kwinana freeway, Perth.
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Spotted a trike - Kwinana freeway, Perth.
Postby DaveW » Tue Jul 01, 2008 11:08 pm
I waved, and he returned it - anyone here?
Yellow trike - not sure what make etc - not up to speed on all that.
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Postby DaveW » Wed Jul 02, 2008 8:24 am
I did see another guy on a yellow trike on the thomas road freeway crossover and I couldn't tell if he had a beard - the balaclava hid it!
That was some time late last week, when I left work late - probably around 5-ish that night.
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Postby exadios » Wed Jul 02, 2008 8:15 pm
It was not me. I have not been on the Freeway path north of Canning Bridge for a month now.Kalgrm wrote:Sounds like Exadios. What colour beard was he wearing?
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There is a guy, who lives in Bullsbrook (I think), who has a yellow TerraTrike. He rides up to Perth along the Freeway path. He does not have a beard.
(An aside: If a beardless person rides a recumbent is he or she a recumbent rider? I do not know the answer to this question. Are there any professional philosophers on this bulletin board?)
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Postby Caelum » Wed Jul 02, 2008 8:18 pm
Only two options remain to solve this problem - they either need to give the 'bent back, or grow a beard.
Any other action would result in pure destruction of the known universe.
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What? A beard?
Postby Freddyflatfoot » Wed Jul 02, 2008 9:13 pm
I do have a small goatee, does that count?
Maybe the beard thing is peculiar to WA?
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Re: What? A beard?
Postby Uba Tracker » Wed Jul 02, 2008 9:29 pm
So I did sense a tremor in the forceFreddyflatfoot wrote:I actually know several 'bent riders who don't have beards!
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Postby Kalgrm » Wed Jul 02, 2008 9:37 pm
Cheers,
Graeme
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Re: What? A beard?
Postby exadios » Wed Jul 02, 2008 10:11 pm
Well, I don't know. This is a serious question and, I think, it deserves a more rigorous treatment than your assertion that beardless people riding recumbents are recumbent riders.Freddyflatfoot wrote:I actually know several 'bent riders who don't have beards!
I do have a small goatee, does that count?
Maybe the beard thing is peculiar to WA?
My understanding is that a goatee makes you a provisional recumbent rider.
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Postby DaveW » Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:42 pm
I also have not yet managed to get myself onto a bent bike.
I am beginning to think that these two things are related somehow.
So do I have to sucessfully grow a beard and then I will be able to get a recumbent, or do I get the recumbent and then the beard will grow?
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Postby Uba Tracker » Thu Jul 03, 2008 1:45 pm
Ahhhh, excellent question David san. Whilst I am far from an expert in the field (still on my 'P' plates if the Exadios principle applies) I began riding bents before attempting the beard but something wasn't quite right. Perhaps there is a cosmic connection between facial hair and riding bents OR is it the case that as bent riders we happy to be non conformist?DaveW wrote:I have tried to grow a beard on a few occasions but never quite managed it sucessfully.
I also have not yet managed to get myself onto a bent bike.
I am beginning to think that these two things are related somehow.
So do I have to sucessfully grow a beard and then I will be able to get a recumbent, or do I get the recumbent and then the beard will grow?
cheers from the twilight zone
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Postby Kalgrm » Thu Jul 03, 2008 1:49 pm
Of course, it could be a defensive thing too - "I'll just hide behind this here hairy face .... "
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Unshaved on rest days
Postby Freddyflatfoot » Thu Jul 03, 2008 6:11 pm
Oh, I do shave once a week before I go to church on Sundays!
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Postby DaveW » Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:37 pm
He did have a short, neat cropped grey beard though.
I was heading south, he was going north alnog Kwinana freeway - I can't rememebr exactly where now (it was two days ago ) but it was along the Melville Waters foreshore.
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Postby Kalgrm » Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:43 pm
The guy who was the subject of the original post does ride with us. His name is Peter and he confirmed he was in the area on the day you mentioned. And no, he doesn't have a beard (I won't speculate any further on his credentials to ride recumbent. )
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