Mark: The last couple of years, at Friday evenings' TOSRV registration, The Country Bike Shop has had a display of Rivendell's. Glad you've enjoyed the display Mark, but I couldn't get the planets to align this year, and I'll not be doing a vendor display. Maybe again next year.
Maybe Mark has pictures of his AHH somewhere, and if so, it's worth a look. It's a very nicely done up Hilsen. I'm sure Mark and his Hilsen will be able to handle the extra miles and hills (detour due to a bridge out) on this years TOSRV just fine. Hope to see you next weekend Mark, and I'll keep the beer truck open for you, if you do the same for me. Dick On Apr 30, 11:43 am, MKahrl <[email protected]> wrote: > Dick puts on a nice display of Rivendell bikes at TOSRV Friday night > registration and the next day on the road I often get questions about > my AHH. One woman in a pace line remarked that she didn't realize fat > tired bikes could go fast. (Little did she know that it is not the > tires that make it go fast, it's that a 50 year old man is trying to > keep up with an attractive woman that makes it go fast). > > There is a 1971 photo in Eugene Sloane's Complete Book of Cycling that > shows a pack of TOSRV riders climbing a hill. Of 20 bikes,10 have > upright roadster style handlebars and most of them are wearing normal > clothing. When I'm contemplating buying a new bike bit for TOSRV I > think about the thousands of riders forty years ago who didn't need > fancy bikes, shorts, lightweight this or that, to complete the 210 > mile tour. They just got on their bikes and did it; and they do it on > the same roads, over the same hills and in the same weather as we do > today. > > As the bike boom hit North America Greg and June Siple took their > large tour organizing expertise to a lot of new bike clubs to help > them put on a tour. I think there are still rides called TOSRV East, > TOSRV West, and TOSRV South. The NYC Five Borough ride is another > offshoot of TOSRV. > > Next year will be TOSRV's 50th. > > Dick, I'll be working hard to get to Tracy Park before the beer truck > closes. Adding 8 extra miles to the 105 mile route is not helping. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
