SPIN CLASS KICKED redux - Page 3

02-26-2005, 08:28 PM

Neil Cherry <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote:
>On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:16:30 -0000, Dane Jackson wrote:
>> Blair P. Houghton <b@p.h> wrote:
>>>
>>> I've been thinking about spin-rooms with PowerTaps
>>> networked to displays so you can see your output and
>>> everyone else's on the front wall.
>>>
>>> But spin class isn't about competition. That'd just drive
>>> away the people who need it most. The closest it should
>>> get is what Heather did. Mock competition with no way to
>>> decide who's winning or losing.
>>
>> Bah!!!
>>
>> "Conan! What is best in life?"
>> "To crush your enemies -- See them driven before you,
>> and to hear the lamentation of their women!"

The problem is, many of them *are* women, and judging from
the tone in their legs in the middle of a ride, they'll
kick your ass before you can get the first heavily-accented
syllable out of your mouth.

>Hey that's the motto of my rides! :-)

Mine is, "if I'm not dead, I'm not done."

>Except that Gina tends to out
>last some of us so it's the guys who quietly lamemnt. ;-)
>
>Actually it should be worded:
>
>"To crush your enemies -- See them dropped behind you and the hear their
>lament slowly fade in the distance" :-) Now if I could only keep up
>with the real racers!

"If you look around and you can't tell who's the fred, it's you."

--Blair
"Thumbs up."