Somehow I don't think you'll be humbled, Leah All those years of schlepping your sons' excess stuff up and down "Killer Hill"" on your school runs, plus all the running and strength training you do will , I'm sure, stand you in good stead. And you have your not-so-secret weapon; a Raspberry Racing Platypusđ
On Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 11:02:29 AM UTC-5 Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! wrote: > Patrick, ha! I am a type A personality. I have never been competitive > though, so this feeling of needing to be quick is new to me. In club > riding, I have discovered it is fun to go fast, and itâs also fun to > explore where one stacks up in comparison to others. Iâm sure if I move to > the faster class Iâll be thoroughly humbled. Weâll see on Monday! > Leah > On Friday, April 29, 2022 at 10:50:52 PM UTC-4 Patrick Moore wrote: > >> I don't look for wisdom from Grant's blogs, but they do provide >> refreshingly honest and positive interest. >> >> I don't want a low-normal rd or new sweepback bar, but I do like reading >> about Rivendell bicycles and their riders. >> >> This appealed: >> >> At the very end the ride, maybe 3/4 mile left, the leader for the 15 mph >> group whizzed past us. I said to my group, âShould we chase him?â They >> laughed because surely I was joking - no one had anything left in their >> legs after such a windy ride. I didnât know if it was against the rules to >> break from the group but we were so close to the end that I decided to try. >> I chased and caught and even passed the rider, but when I got to my vehicle >> where my legs were jelly and my voice was raspy. Ok, maybe it was a little >> hard. >> >> I donât *really* care about beating people but I DO want them to know you >> can ride a steel, upright bike and be plenty fast and relevant and >> comfortable. I think that is my mission in this club >> >> I expect Leah *does* have something of that "type A" competitive >> personality, and good for you! >> >> Goats. Frankly, I like them better than platypuses. But they're close to >> sheep, and reading Grant's ecomium (I'll bet you have to look that up) of >> goats, it reminded me of this, stuck in mind from years and decades ago. >> *Bad >> Child's Book of Beasts* by Hillaire Belloc, illus. Lord Ian Basil >> Gawaine Hamilton Temple Blackwood, 1896. >> >> The Cambrian Welsh or Mountain Sheep >> >> Is of the Ovine race, >> >> His conversation is not deep >> >> But thenâobserve his face! >> [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/3bf698d0-ec0e-442c-afdf-3ffcf40a15e6n%40googlegroups.com.
