AP: Mountain Biking New Pastime for bush*

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=716&e=7&u=/ap/20040727/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_bush_mountain_biking

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CRAWFORD, Texas - Running hurt his knees. Swimming cramped his style. So President Bush (news - web sites) took up mountain biking, a sport that gets him outdoors, pumps up his heart rate and, every so often, sends him crashing to the ground.



Bush offered a glimpse of his new pastime to an Associated Press reporter Monday, roaming the dirt roads and far-flung pastures of his 1,600-acre ranch. About halfway through, he sailed over the handlebars during a dangerous descent, but dusted himself off, picked up his $3,100 bicycle and kept riding.


Bush, who was wearing a helmet and a mouth guard, escaped injury other than a small cut on his knee. But he conceded he was a little shaken up, riding tentatively as he descended the rest of the downhill.


Crashing is a routine part of mountain biking, a sport in which riders roll over loose dirt, rocks and other obstacles. Nevertheless, the president said, it's easier on his body than jogging, which was grinding his knees.


"This is like running except I don't feel bad afterward," he said Monday after burning about 1,200 calories over an 18-mile ride that lasted an hour and 20 minutes.



President Bush (news - web sites) rides his bike on his ranch in Crawford, Texas, Monday, July 26, 2004. (AP Photo/The White House, Eric Draper, HO)

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[bushisanidiot]

1. Bullshit. That fat tub-o-lard didn't go anywhere near 18 miles..

and what a clutz. AWOL can't even walk and chew gum at the same time.. no wonder he's screwed our country up!

[GCP]

2. Maybe he could do us all a favor and break his neck eom

[Khephra]

3. Ahhh...we're back to

he exercises thus he's a great man. Yeah. Right.

[0007]

4. Maybe the next time junior goes over the handle bars he'll break something

...like his neck.

[booksenkatz]

5. John Kerry he ain't.

I'm constantly amazed at how athletic Kerry is. I think that Junior is jealous of Kerry's hunky reputation and is trying to copy him, but as in everything else, he falls short.

[ps1074]

6. oh yeah?

Running 3 miles hurts his knees but biking 18 miles doesn't?

!!!!!!!!!! Bullshit !!!!!!!!!!

And what a morron you need to be to always fall out of bike? If I remember correct he fall a month or so ago too. And then last year he fell while on segway.

And why he is not wearing knee pads? If he is concerned for his knees he ought to wear them.

[Citizen Daryl]

7. $3100 BIKE?!??!?!?!?

He musta bought that with his upper-class tax cut.

Even when he pumps his own pedals, he does it like a Patrician.

[Khephra]

8. If I had a $3100 bike, I'd expect it to

whipe the dirt off my ass when I was done biking. Yeah, there's a need for that expensive of bike...if your name is ARMSTRONG. But Bush is going to use it maybe 6 times in his life.

[craiga86]

9. He can't even ride a freakin bike!

Much less run a country....

[Moderator]

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