Re: End of Week/month mileage

Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> wrote:

On Mon, 02 Jun 2025 20:37:00 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
wrote:
 

On Sun Jun 1 08:00:29 2025 zen cycle  wrote:

I'm not sure of that timeline. I seem to remember tom making the "20
year-olds bragging" claim well before 2022 - I could be wrong.

 
I have problems looking up anything that old.  The only service that
goes that far back is Google.  However, Google's Usenet archive ended
on Feb 22, 2024.  Since then, nobody seems to be rebuilding the
indexes when they become scrambled.  Lots of things no longer work
correctly.  The other Usenet archives are still functional, but don't
retain articles that far back.
 
Using NovaBBS, I found 59 articles, by various people, with the words
"poison gas" in them.  The earliest article was on May 5, 2021 (4
years ago):
<https://www.novabbs.com/tech/article-flat.php?id=34788&group=rec.bicycles.tech#34788>
Unfortunately, I couldn't determine the earliest article posted by
Tom.  The newsreader will only display 1,000 articles by Tom, which
only go back to Nov 26, 2023.
 

Besides that, I find it exceptionally difficult to believe that people
would brag on strava that they were faster than tom. If tom can point to
a post on strava by a 20something year-old where they called out tom -
even in a passing reference - I'll stand corrected.

 
If Google can't find it, it doesn't exist.
 

It was well before my head injury so that would have put it sometimme in the early 2000's.

 
Nope.  In Tom's own words:
<https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:6912346811772932096/>
"I got a severe concussion in 2010 that led to a type of seizures that
I didn't remember afterwards. This wasn't discovered and treated
properly until 2012 after 4 car wrecks luckily without any injuries".
 
I find it interesting that the "severe concussion" occurred just
before Tom's DUI arrest.
 
04/28/2010
DUI arrest and non-appearance
<https://www.localcrimenews.com/welcome/detail/44604354/thomas-h-kunich-arrest.html>
"Arrested For 23152(A/B) - DUI Alcohol W/BAC > .08"
<https://www.localcrimenews.com/welcome/detail/49646718/thomas-h-kunich-arrest.html>
"Arrested For WARRANT - Warrants Or Holds Only"
 

I never minded fast riders disappearing up the road, I just didn't like
my rides being specifically chosen for comparison by people 40 years
younger than me. But who knows, maybe it was a compliment. I was pretty
sensitive about my riding after the poison gas incident.

 
In what month and year was this poison gas incident?
Do you have a link to this "comparison"?
Do you have the names of any of the perpetrator so I can find them on
Strava?
 
 

Strava started 2009 ish so he can’t have been having comparisons from 20
year olds in 2000!

He only closed it in the last few years so was clearly happy with it, or at
least not concerned with it until recently.

Roger Merriman