Re: The truth about mountain biking in a nutshell

On Jul 2, 11:48=A0pm, Mike Vandeman <mjva...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 13:35:51 -0700 (PDT), shragap...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> >On Jul 1, 8:53=A0pm, Mike Vandeman <mjva...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 08:47:01 -0700 (PDT), shragap...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> >On Jun 30, 12:21=A0am, Mike Vandeman <mjva...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> >> >> >There you go again...Liar. I don't mountain bike. Therefore you
li=
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> >> >> >again by saying i do.
>
> >> >> You did once, making you a mountain biker, LIAR.
>
> >> >He did once, making him a mountain biker?
>
> >> >So did you, once:
>
> >> Learn to read. He used to be a mountain biker, once. I didn't say he
> >> mountain biked one time. DUH!
>
> >Why are you being so defensive? I just made an observation about the
> >words you wrote.
>
> >There is no reason for a rational reader to interpret the above
> >exchange as he "used to be a mountain biker, once." Those words
aren=92t
> >there. These are:
>
> >maguahiker: "I don't mountain bike."
> >Dr. Vandeman: "You did once, making you a mountain biker"
>
> >In other words, you wrote, "You did [mountain bike] once, making you a
> >mountain biker."
>
> I didn't say "one time". I said "once", i.e. in the past.

Nobody suggested you wrote, "one time." Let's just use the words you
actually wrote, OK?

> >You also mountain biked once, according to your own letter to the East
> >Bay Regional Park District Board of Directors, which makes you a
> >mountain biker.
>
> No, it doesn't. I rode a mountain bike once. I was never a mountain
> biker. If you can't understand that, it's because you don't care to.

Don't project how you think I should feel. Try to be objective.

You didn't write that maguahiker was a mountain biker once. Those
words aren't there. You and he clearly referred to the act of mountain
biking, not being a mountain biker.

Are you now suggesting that when you rode the mountain bike on those
fire roads used by mountain bikers a few days before you weren't
mountain biking? How is that possible? Were the racers there four days
prior not mountain biking?

maguahiker: "I don't mountain bike."
Dr. Vandeman to maguahiker: "You did [mountain bike] once, making you
a mountain biker."
Dr. Vandeman about himself: "I rode a mountain bike once."

You are a mountain biker, Dr. Vandeman.


> >> >"Consequently I borrowed a friend's mountain bike. It was lucky that
=
I
> >> >did, because I discovered that, contrary to what the mountain bikers
> >> >claim, riding a bike off of paved roads is no fun at all! I rode
only
> >> >on fire roads, but even there, I was continually subject to violent
> >> >jarring, due to the hoof- and tire-pocked "washboard" surface of the
> >> >road."
>
> >> >Full text here:http://home.pacbell.net/mjvande/ebrpd16
>
> >> >Clearly, you mountain-biked once. By your own "logic" you are a
> >> >mountain biker too, Dr. Vandeman.
>
> >> > - Shraga