There's a really long, shitty* hillclimb on the way home from my work. Yesterday, I barely made it-- despite having ultimately shifted into the granny near the top and taking it easy at about 0.003 mph. This afternoon, I launched up it like it was nuthin', middle ring/cog front/back. Same bike... basket up front, rear rack, nokian studded tires. Maybe it was the brisk air today? Whatever it was: there are good days and there are bad days.
*(narrow road, dirty snowbanks making it even narrower, clusterf$#& of impatient Yukigator drivers) On Feb 15, 3:41 pm, PATRICK MOORE <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just got back from a nice if brief-ish 1 hour ride on the '99 Riv > gofast, newly equipped with pretty Phil front hub (I have decided not > to replace the computer -- just yet, anyway, but I guesstimate that I > covered, easily, 23 miles over rolling, mostly suburban terrain). > Anyway, I deliberately went out of my way to climb some steepish, 1/2 > mile long hills, mostly standing in the 75" gear, and blow me down, if > I sped up those hills like ... like .... like ... Oh! Like Bartali, > shifting into a *higher* gear at the bottom of a steep climb, turning > with a sneer and glare at his competition, and leaving them in his > dust. Sortof. > > Anyway, the difference between this gofast that, now, without a > computer, weighs a featherlite 17 3/4 lb, and the almost identical but > built as a commuter '03, is about 5 lb, and I certainly can tell the > difference on the hills. > > Just so you know. > > -- > Patrick Moore > Albuquerque, NM > For professional resumes, contact > Patrick Moore, ACRW at resumespecialt...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
