I got my Racing Platypus back for the rides this week. It has heavenly new gray Ultradynamico tires and I love them. The roadies have been telling me I should have a road bike. Today they said I should not have a road bike. I should stay on that heavy Platypus or the carbon bike would spirit me away and ahead of them. I’m glad we are finally in agreement. I will just ride the Racing Platypus, like I intended from the start.
Honestly I keep waiting for the day when they are just USED to me. They still get nervous when I roll up to their 16 mph ride, like I’m gonna wreck it. “This route has hills but we’ll wait if we lose some of you.” (Looks at me.) I’ve never slowed them up or asked for any favors - this is all prejudice. They make sure to give me backhanded compliments at the end of the ride. You know the ones. “How much does that bike WEIGH?” “You are just wearing sandals? Those aren’t clipless?” “You must be a really strong rider [to pedal THAT bike].” “Well, I gotta hand it to you… [we all thought you were a joke, but I guess you can do it.]” We did 27.9 miles mostly between 16-19 mph, according to the splits on my Apple Watch. Not bad. Photos in the next post… Leah On Thursday, June 2, 2022 at 2:57:28 PM UTC-4 George Schick wrote: > Curtis - Type 3 also, after the dust has settled, seems to entitle > bragging rights whereas the first two types don't. > > On Thursday, June 2, 2022 at 11:02:37 AM UTC-5 Curtis wrote: > >> Toshi it sounds like you are describing a Type 2 activity. >> >> https://goeast.ems.com/three-types-of-fun/ >> >> Peace >> Curtis >> >> On Thu, Jun 2, 2022, 8:47 AM Toshi Takeuchi <tto...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi Leah, >>> >>> Congrats on your Clem ride (I would have been lying on the asphalt going >>> over 180 bpm!). Do you think it was more enjoyable now that it's been a >>> few days? In my randonneuring rides, there is a common phenomenon known as >>> randonesia, where the farther away from the suffering you get, the more fun >>> it was to have completed that ride. Day of ride: "This really sucks, why am >>> I so stupid to do these rides." After ride: "That hurt. It was nice to >>> finish, but I'm never doing that again." A week later: "I can't believe I >>> made it through that ride. It was "fun". When is the next ride?" >>> >>> Have "fun"! >>> >>> Toshi >>> >>> -- >>> 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-bun...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CAGB59xymyiBkgpLAXKG_Qur6SzbVjFUqiRUMsvyFmqd0pKTo2g%40mail.gmail.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CAGB59xymyiBkgpLAXKG_Qur6SzbVjFUqiRUMsvyFmqd0pKTo2g%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- 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/3c93a5b9-c3a8-4d59-ace2-04311e44b033n%40googlegroups.com.
