I too enjoy the accounts of your cycling adventures. Keep'em coming.
Way to go up that hill! A few times I have surprised a full kit clad 'clipped in' guy on a high dollar racing bike over the years with me dressed in cargo shorts and a long sleeve cotton shirt spinning platform pedals on a vintage bike. I can no longer sustain a high effort like that for too long but it is fun to occasionally put the leg to the pedal and see what you can do, 'blow out the cobwebs' so to speak. I often wonder if these folks are thinking, " Wait a minute, how can old guy on an old bike without all the kit and high end bike keep up and/or or pass him." " That's not what the bike shop told me." Of course who knows how much riding or training they have been able to do or perhaps health issues any of these folks have. More often than not the really young bucks on high end bikes pass me like I am standing still but occasionally I surprise one. However, I have been hearing more accounts of surprised racers being passed by folks who shouldn't be able to and it turns out they have an electric assist motor on their bike. It was great you were able to have a friendly conversation with one of them. Safe pedaling to all in full kit or regular clothes, steel, carbon or whatever bike. Paul in Dallas -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
