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Title: Bicycling
Notice:Bicycling for Fun
Moderator:JAMIN::WASSER
Created:Mon Apr 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3214
Total number of notes:31946

2617.0. "1993 MS150" by NEMAIL::EAGAN () Mon Jul 26 1993 13:22

    
    	Is anybody doing the 1993 MS150.. Manchester To Manchester!!
    It is the weekend of Aug. 14&15..
    
    
    Ron
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2617.1NOVA::FISHERUS Patent 5225833Wed Jul 28 1993 12:043
    In which states are these Manchesters?
    
    ed
2617.2NH TO MA AND BACKNEMAIL::EAGANWed Jul 28 1993 14:532
    
    	Manchester NH to Manchester MA, then back to Manchester NH
2617.3Useless trivia du jour4GL::LASHERWorking...Wed Jul 28 1993 15:204
    The one in Massachusetts has officially renamed itself to
    "Manchester-By-The-Sea."
    
Lew Lasher
2617.4lots of :-) of courseMOVIES::WIDDOWSONRainmakerThu Jul 29 1993 07:3021
    Sorry folks I just have to but in.  (ie hit next unseen now).
    
    Have you colonials got any idea how confusing it is for us limeys to
    have to go to New England ?  Here am I 30 years resident in the UK and
    I know that Manchester is a big manufacturing city somewhere `oop
    north'.  Now to get from there to Reading you go south.  Likewise from
    Reading to (say) Aylsebury is a quick spin round the M25.  Shrewsbury
    is sleepy town in the North of west country.
    
    Then we get to NE.  It's *really* diificult not to try to apply the
    geography of back home to getting around there.  Result I get
    hopelessly lost (mind you there are lways lots of cordial,
    lane-respecting Mass. drivers to put me right).
    
    Take this case.  Manchester to Manchster 150.  Sounds nice.  I don't
    know the area but we should be talking of a good stretch in the
    penines, maybe over Holm Moss.  Now I discover it's to a place called
    `Macnhester by the sea' !.  Sheez, next thing you'll be telling me that
    Boston isn't a small market town in Lincs with two road races a year
    and about 100 miles from Cambridge !
                             
2617.5:-)NOVA::FISHERUS Patent 5225833Thu Jul 29 1993 10:485
    Well, I was thinking of Manchester, Connecticut, when I asked the
    question.  That would have made the ride interesting anyway, about
    150 a day or so.
    
    ed
2617.6:-)ROWLET::AINSLEYLess than 150 kts. is TOO slow!Thu Jul 29 1993 12:3910
    re:.4
    
    Yeah, those New Englander's don't have any imagination when it comes to
    naming places...You ought to visit Paris...
    
    
    Texas!
    
    Bob
    
2617.74GL::LASHERWorking...Thu Jul 29 1993 13:245
    Re: .6
    
    Why go to Texas when we New Englanders have only to go to Maine.
    
Lew Lasher
2617.8NOVA::FISHERUS Patent 5225833Thu Jul 29 1993 14:045
    Yeah, up there Paris is not far from Cairo, and China, and 
    
    and even, Poland Springs!
    
    ed
2617.9We've got a B'hamODIXIE::RRODRIGUEZShake that grits tree!Thu Jul 29 1993 14:162
    If you try to ride from Manchester, MA to Birmingham, AL, you're
    in for quite an MS150!
2617.10DELNI::CRITZScott Critz, LKG2/1, Pole V3Thu Jul 29 1993 15:459
    	And, you can visit Russia...
    
    	Ohio.
    
    	It's pronounced with a long "u," like Roosia.
    
    	BTW, Ohio has the real Wooster.
    
    	Scott
2617.11NOVA::FISHERUS Patent 5225833Thu Jul 29 1993 17:365
    oh right, and Berlin, NH.  Pronounced brrrr-l'n
    
    or Washington, NH, even.
    
    ed
2617.12EST::BOURDESSThu Jul 29 1993 17:396
    I'm from Ohio myself.  When I first came to Mass. I pronounced
    Worcester "war-chester", just like the sauce. :-)
    
    Didn't take long for someone to correct me.
    
    	Mike
2617.134GL::LASHERWorking...Thu Jul 29 1993 17:507
    Re: .11
    
    	Berlin, NH
    
    Which was named after Berlin, *Massachusetts* !
    
Lew Lasher