On today's single track ride I used exactly two gears, shifting four times for terrain going either up or down. What an amazing flow to the ride! Contemplation is so easy to enter into, and that's still with a derailure. I am excited to see what no derailure brings to the party!
I understand now why the explanations of why people love to ride mountain trails single speed always fail to answer the question of why they love it so. It is transcendent, wild, free and unable to be captured or contained in words. It has a flow and rhythm that melt into the wind breathing through the trees and the sound of tires on loose gravel and my breathing and all the clay over which I ride. The "Wow!" continues. Grin. Though these pictures are poor at conveying it: https://www.flickr.com/photos/32311885@N07/sets/72157644198250827/ With abandon, Patrick www.MindYourHeadCoop.org 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
