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		<title>Cranky Mechanic &#8211; The Perfect Post</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cranky Mechanic “The Perfect Post”. By Uncle Chad I always hear the phrase “we are truly in the information age”. Every year that statement multiplies exponentially. It used to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Night Was Cold</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just as the weather can’t get any worse, so starts the racing season. For the Pros that is. Why the rest of California wants to start at the same time, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cranky Mechanic: Left Turn at Albequeque</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 19:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Uncle Chad First of all, while I write this, there is a fly that is buzzing around my apartment. He has been in here for 2 days, and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cranky Mechanic &#8211; Package This!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Uncle Chad Man, I tell you, ya can’t do nuthin’ for under a hundred bucks anymore. Cell phone, cable TV, parking ticket in LA, skewers for my super-duper Campy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Bonehead of The Week Award Winner</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a police video of an officer riding in the right hand lane and gets some driver frustrated. The driver lays on his horn not realizing that the bike [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If Bass Fishermen Made Bikes – Interbike 09</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cranky Mechanic By Uncle Chad Ooohhh boy-oh-boy I tell ya. I was just at Interbike 09. Sometimes what happens in Vegas should definitely stay in Vegas, and some should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 10 Thousand Dollar Chair</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by: Uncle Chad Man, there is nothing like seeing someone with a Rolex that doesn’t keep time, a Ferrari that’s in the shop, ROGANI BRUNO and FRANCO’s with poop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cranky Mechanic Presented by…..</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t get it. A few years ago, some father who owns a big corporate company, gave his son-in-law a schnazzy upper level management job in charge of the making [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upgrade This! Coming Soon To A Store Near You</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Uncle Chad Upgrade. n. (noun). To pay extra for something that you should have gotten with your original purchase. syn. sucker, chump, fred. Upgrade, upgrade, upgrade. That’s all I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The “Trickle Up Economics”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cranky Mechanic The “Trickle Up Economics” By Uncle Chad I am sure we have all heard of “trickle down economics”. It is basically “the economic-political argument that the increases [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does it &#8220;Matter&#8221;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cranky Mechanic One of my favorite cycling photos is the one of Albert Einstein riding a bicycle in a suit. He also once said, &#8220;matter can&#8217;t be created or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Green Is The New Extreme?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 16:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original Essay by: The Cranky Mechanic All right stop. Collaborate and listen. Remember way back in the last century when Vanilla Ice unleashed &#8220;Ice Ice Baby&#8221; on our unsuspecting ears? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cranky Mechanic &#8211; &#8220;The New&#8230;.&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Uncle Chad Look at all the shiny new bikes. Seems like a $6000 rig is today’s flavor of the month. I recently walked into a coffee shop at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you know what you want?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cranky Mechanic Do you know what you want? By Uncle Chad How can such a simple sport sometimes be so confusing? All we have to do is put one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;SNUB THIS&#8221; BY UNCLE CHAD</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Snub This!” By Uncle Chad You&#8217;re basically saying “SNUB THIS” with every boutique item you buy. I just saw a rider who bought a saddle for a sale price of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bicycle.Net&#8217;s New Features</title>
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