So then my Bleriot is not too big for me.. It is Grant style sizing. Great picture, thanks Patrick.
On Wednesday, July 29, 2020 at 4:03:06 PM UTC-4, Patrick Moore wrote: > > I have to admit that a small part of my motive for posting this photo is > to yank the "just ride" chain -- even though as I age, my riding is more > and more "just ride", but that's not the only reason. Other reasons below. > > The photo comes from a post to the CR list by an ancient member (reminds > me of The Oldest Member character in the PG Wodehouse stories, or "Uncle > Tom" in Rumpole) who was racing in the 1950s. Per the discussion, that > half-fistful was normal, extended seatposts were "ridiculous" and big > frames were "more comfortable." > > But the main reason is that Beryl Burton -- always an amateur and never a > professional, a working (manual farm worker, in fact; she pulled rhubarb > among other things) mother (she rode to the hospital to bear her daughter) > with a working mother's schedule -- beat the men and the professionals for > 25 years, and really ought to be as well known as Eddy Merckx. *And* there > is a well known photo of her at speed on the shoulder of a '60s British > highway with a 1X5: the "one" is about 56 t and the "five" looks like a > 14-18. > > And the final reason is personal. We each of us severally have our own > reasons for our own cycling preferences, partly practical, partly merely > personal and idiosyncratic. I cut my baby teeth of cycling interest in the > late 1960s and early 1970s on old Brit cycling literature that I found in > the Nairobi municipal library; books that told you about ankling and steel > frames getting soft with age and wearing silk socks or none at all under > your Rivats in order to remove all slop that would slow you down. All > nonsense, but still, part of an era. > > But all of that aside, Beryl remains a person and cyclist worth looking up. > > [image: image.png] > > -- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/16bfe07b-c9aa-4cb3-80aa-5e447e87facao%40googlegroups.com.
