Re: [RBW] Re: Getting in over my head

[Leah Peterson]

Doug, I laughed out loud. The guy pushing you! 😂 It’s so humbling, right? We need to organize a Clem ride, which is where we’d be right at home. We’d call it a Clems With Nothing To Prove Ride.  The terror of trying and failing to keep up at high speeds would be but a distant memory. Sent from my iPhone On May 16, 2023, at 3:37 PM, Doug H. <dhansford1...@gmail.com> wrote: I was on a group ride with a fast rider years ago and tried to keep up but could not. As I'm on his rear wheel and giving my last bit of effort not to drop off the rider behind me screams "don't let him drop you!". My heart and lungs just didn't have another gear so he did drop me. On another day, on a steep incline a racer friend of mine told me not to get below 10 mph on the hill (seemed arbitrary to me...) but I could not manage to keep that speed. He actually PUSHED me with one hand to keep me up to speed when I slowed and to this day I am amazed he was pedaling his weight and some of mine!! I am faster and find hills easier to climb on my 20 pound Wabi Thunder than on my Clem. The Clem is more comfortable and would be the bike I would keep if I could only have one. Doug On Tuesday, May 16, 2023 at 11:43:11 AM UTC-4 Patrick Moore wrote: I'd love to see a video of Leah suffering on the Platypus with handlbar streamers and white straw basket to keep up with the fast boys on carbon fiber. But good job, says someone whose fast days are long gone.  But Leah ought to be winner on the downhills. Long ago, as a spritely early 50-something, I rode with Gary "It was a bad year; only 9,000 miles" Blakely up the long Tramway climb. Downhill I continually pulled ahead because at 170 I weighed about 35 lb more than he. Bikes about the same (me #1 Riv custom, he refurbished -- by Mark Bulgier, IIRC -- Trek) 4 years ago I did  several rides with a group of engineers from Sandia labs, thanks to a friend who was then working there (he retired a couple of years ago). The others were all younger than I -- I would guess most in 3-0s and 40s with leader in early-mid 50s; I 64, friend 60 or 61 -- and rode derailleur bikes, mostly cf; I was on my '99 fixie gofast with 76" gear. 20, 30, and ??37? -- I bailed; see below -- rides. I bailed on the last one after facing a ~5 mile gradual uphill into Bernalillo with a headwind and gradually falling behind the group, tho' another rider very kindly shepherded me to the Bernalillo rest stop. But man, with the open road, tail wind, and downhill I was spinning out the 76" gear much of the way home. On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 9:18 AM Brian Forsee <bmfo...@gmail.com> wrote: Sounds like you crushed it Leah! Way to get out of your comfort zone. Brian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/9xxTknUZFL8/unsubscribe. To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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/c91ae699-9c44-41c4-af33-a09eb571117fn%40googlegroups.com. -- 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/C403D459-F1A7-4643-9189-99A0F073DDF1%40gmail.com.