Re: [RBW] Re: Great ride and failure to help
I always take tools and a pump with me when I drive it. And sometimes a folding bike ;) -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] Re: Great ride and failure to help
I had a co-worker of a family member giving me a ride to the start of the Houston-Austin MS150 a few years back and when he saw people pumping up tires with a floor pump he asked why people would do that at all given the existence of CO2 cartridges. *facepalm* I didn't really give him any negative feedback as he had been kind enough to let me stay at his house while I was in the Houston area, and there wasn't really time to explain as I was about to get out of the car. On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 10:08 PM, Darin G. dbg...@mac.com wrote: I stopped one day to help a couple of guys who were asking for a C02 chuck. I told them I didn't have a chuck but offered them my frame pump and they just waved me off, saying they would wait for the rest of their group. I don't think they knew how to use it. On Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 4:31:47 PM UTC-6, Deacon Patrick wrote: I tried. Saw a carbon fiber bike, spandex clad older gentleman at the side of the trail, rear wheel off so pulled over. Poor guy had 4-5 patches unsealed at the edges with the plastic still on them that had clearly been ridden. He was afraid to use his CO2 to find the leak. I offered my hand pump, quipping that I had an unlimited supply of air (standing up wind from him the whole time so as to survive laundry scents). The air went out of the tube almost immediately, so likely a faulty valve. I offered him my tube, but it was going to be a squeeze with my 40mm tube in his 25mm tire. Then his racing aero rims needed a much longer valve stem than my tube has, so my tube (which would have just squeezed in there) couldn’t be inflated anyway. He gave up and called his wife. I rode on. I do not understand racing kit for practical cycling. Still, I got to enjoy a great break along Fountain Creek, on a curve away from the noise of the interstate, after a morning down in Colorado Springs on an errand. I returned home feeling far better than I would have if I’d had my wife drive me there and back, and I got a great 45 mile ride. What a great day, despite my failure to help this poor lad! With abandon, Patrick *www.MindYourHeadCoop.org http://www.MindYourHeadCoop.org* *www.OurHolyConception.org http://www.OurHolyConception.org* -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Keep the metal side up and the rubber side down! -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] Re: Great ride and failure to help
It's a Fiat 500C Abarth now, which is a decent 'best of both worlds' alternative for me. But we're off topic... ;) On Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 7:14:13 PM UTC-7, cyclot...@gmail.com wrote: Subie WRX... best of both worlds! On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Joe Bernard joer...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: *I do not understand racing kit for practical cycling.* It's what happens when you want *that* bike, and *these* are the roads you ride: You go for the ride, and deal with the consequences later. I went through the car equivalent of this with a snazzy used Porsche Boxster S ten years ago. It was great fun, but the maintenance was ridiculously expensive, and that was when it was *running.* I finally succumbed to the realities of the actual driving I was actually doing and bought a Honda Civic :) On Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 3:31:47 PM UTC-7, Deacon Patrick wrote: I tried. Saw a carbon fiber bike, spandex clad older gentleman at the side of the trail, rear wheel off so pulled over. Poor guy had 4-5 patches unsealed at the edges with the plastic still on them that had clearly been ridden. He was afraid to use his CO2 to find the leak. I offered my hand pump, quipping that I had an unlimited supply of air (standing up wind from him the whole time so as to survive laundry scents). The air went out of the tube almost immediately, so likely a faulty valve. I offered him my tube, but it was going to be a squeeze with my 40mm tube in his 25mm tire. Then his racing aero rims needed a much longer valve stem than my tube has, so my tube (which would have just squeezed in there) couldn’t be inflated anyway. He gave up and called his wife. I rode on. I do not understand racing kit for practical cycling. Still, I got to enjoy a great break along Fountain Creek, on a curve away from the noise of the interstate, after a morning down in Colorado Springs on an errand. I returned home feeling far better than I would have if I’d had my wife drive me there and back, and I got a great 45 mile ride. What a great day, despite my failure to help this poor lad! With abandon, Patrick *www.MindYourHeadCoop.org http://www.MindYourHeadCoop.org* *www.OurHolyConception.org http://www.OurHolyConception.org* -- 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 javascript:. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com javascript:. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Cheers, David Member, Supreme Council of Cyberspace it isn't a contest. Just enjoy the ride. - Seth Vidal -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] Re: Great ride and failure to help
Fix It Again, Tony On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Joe Bernard joerem...@gmail.com wrote: It's a Fiat 500C Abarth now, which is a decent 'best of both worlds' alternative for me. But we're off topic... ;) On Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 7:14:13 PM UTC-7, cyclot...@gmail.com wrote: Subie WRX... best of both worlds! On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Joe Bernard joer...@gmail.com wrote: *I do not understand racing kit for practical cycling.* It's what happens when you want *that* bike, and *these* are the roads you ride: You go for the ride, and deal with the consequences later. I went through the car equivalent of this with a snazzy used Porsche Boxster S ten years ago. It was great fun, but the maintenance was ridiculously expensive, and that was when it was *running.* I finally succumbed to the realities of the actual driving I was actually doing and bought a Honda Civic :) On Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 3:31:47 PM UTC-7, Deacon Patrick wrote: I tried. Saw a carbon fiber bike, spandex clad older gentleman at the side of the trail, rear wheel off so pulled over. Poor guy had 4-5 patches unsealed at the edges with the plastic still on them that had clearly been ridden. He was afraid to use his CO2 to find the leak. I offered my hand pump, quipping that I had an unlimited supply of air (standing up wind from him the whole time so as to survive laundry scents). The air went out of the tube almost immediately, so likely a faulty valve. I offered him my tube, but it was going to be a squeeze with my 40mm tube in his 25mm tire. Then his racing aero rims needed a much longer valve stem than my tube has, so my tube (which would have just squeezed in there) couldn’t be inflated anyway. He gave up and called his wife. I rode on. I do not understand racing kit for practical cycling. Still, I got to enjoy a great break along Fountain Creek, on a curve away from the noise of the interstate, after a morning down in Colorado Springs on an errand. I returned home feeling far better than I would have if I’d had my wife drive me there and back, and I got a great 45 mile ride. What a great day, despite my failure to help this poor lad! With abandon, Patrick *www.MindYourHeadCoop.org http://www.MindYourHeadCoop.org* *www.OurHolyConception.org http://www.OurHolyConception.org* -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Cheers, David Member, Supreme Council of Cyberspace it isn't a contest. Just enjoy the ride. - Seth Vidal -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Keep the metal side up and the rubber side down! -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] Re: Great ride and failure to help
I know around here (and likely elsewhere), the big thing are supported rides - people get used to a car or truck having everything they need - besides, they paid for it. Probably even more so makes them feel like junior TDF - they're used to having a pit crew On Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 8:47:45 AM UTC-5, cyclot...@gmail.com wrote: Seems like shops would encourage everyone to have a pump. $30-50 for each rider ain't a bad day's income! -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] Re: Great ride and failure to help
Seems like shops would encourage everyone to have a pump. $30-50 for each rider ain't a bad day's income! On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 5:56 AM, Ron Mc bulldog...@gmail.com wrote: more than twice I've loaned my pump to roadies on the roadside. It's always a pleasant conversation. If we get back to the original problem it becomes a question of people buying into an image that's being sold, compounded by peer pressure, since the lion's share of group rides are built around the bike shops doing the selling. On Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 7:45:22 AM UTC-5, Kobe* wrote: That's OK, while I think I could figure it out, I have never used a CO2 chuck. I probably should get one for a backup to my frame pump. On Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 11:08:31 PM UTC-4, Darin G. wrote: I stopped one day to help a couple of guys who were asking for a C02 chuck. I told them I didn't have a chuck but offered them my frame pump and they just waved me off, saying they would wait for the rest of their group. I don't think they knew how to use it. On Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 4:31:47 PM UTC-6, Deacon Patrick wrote: I tried. Saw a carbon fiber bike, spandex clad older gentleman at the side of the trail, rear wheel off so pulled over. Poor guy had 4-5 patches unsealed at the edges with the plastic still on them that had clearly been ridden. He was afraid to use his CO2 to find the leak. I offered my hand pump, quipping that I had an unlimited supply of air (standing up wind from him the whole time so as to survive laundry scents). The air went out of the tube almost immediately, so likely a faulty valve. I offered him my tube, but it was going to be a squeeze with my 40mm tube in his 25mm tire. Then his racing aero rims needed a much longer valve stem than my tube has, so my tube (which would have just squeezed in there) couldn't be inflated anyway. He gave up and called his wife. I rode on. I do not understand racing kit for practical cycling. Still, I got to enjoy a great break along Fountain Creek, on a curve away from the noise of the interstate, after a morning down in Colorado Springs on an errand. I returned home feeling far better than I would have if I'd had my wife drive me there and back, and I got a great 45 mile ride. What a great day, despite my failure to help this poor lad! With abandon, Patrick *www.MindYourHeadCoop.org http://www.MindYourHeadCoop.org* *www.OurHolyConception.org http://www.OurHolyConception.org* -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Cheers, David Member, Supreme Council of Cyberspace it isn't a contest. Just enjoy the ride. - Seth Vidal -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] Re: Great ride and failure to help
Subie WRX... best of both worlds! On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Joe Bernard joerem...@gmail.com wrote: *I do not understand racing kit for practical cycling.* It's what happens when you want *that* bike, and *these* are the roads you ride: You go for the ride, and deal with the consequences later. I went through the car equivalent of this with a snazzy used Porsche Boxster S ten years ago. It was great fun, but the maintenance was ridiculously expensive, and that was when it was *running.* I finally succumbed to the realities of the actual driving I was actually doing and bought a Honda Civic :) On Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 3:31:47 PM UTC-7, Deacon Patrick wrote: I tried. Saw a carbon fiber bike, spandex clad older gentleman at the side of the trail, rear wheel off so pulled over. Poor guy had 4-5 patches unsealed at the edges with the plastic still on them that had clearly been ridden. He was afraid to use his CO2 to find the leak. I offered my hand pump, quipping that I had an unlimited supply of air (standing up wind from him the whole time so as to survive laundry scents). The air went out of the tube almost immediately, so likely a faulty valve. I offered him my tube, but it was going to be a squeeze with my 40mm tube in his 25mm tire. Then his racing aero rims needed a much longer valve stem than my tube has, so my tube (which would have just squeezed in there) couldn't be inflated anyway. He gave up and called his wife. I rode on. I do not understand racing kit for practical cycling. Still, I got to enjoy a great break along Fountain Creek, on a curve away from the noise of the interstate, after a morning down in Colorado Springs on an errand. I returned home feeling far better than I would have if I'd had my wife drive me there and back, and I got a great 45 mile ride. What a great day, despite my failure to help this poor lad! With abandon, Patrick *www.MindYourHeadCoop.org http://www.MindYourHeadCoop.org* *www.OurHolyConception.org http://www.OurHolyConception.org* -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Cheers, David Member, Supreme Council of Cyberspace it isn't a contest. Just enjoy the ride. - Seth Vidal -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
