200k in albastaches, no problems; Done two ~60mi days in the Boscos, no problem, The upright posture really helps keep pressure off the arms. Now, be careful where you place your brake levers to keep you from "flaring out your wrists" too much.
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: > On 06/08/2015 05:17 PM, Patrick Moore wrote: > >> Breaking the filters off of Marlboros: I remember doing that! >> >> 3 packs a day -- wow! I asked the convenience store clerk the other day >> how much a pack of M's cost nowadays, and he said $7.60 before sales tax. >> >> > IIRC they were thirty cents a pack in the 'Nam in 1970. > > One of the motivational techniques I used to use was every day I dropped > as much money as I would have spent on cigarettes that day into a coffee > can. When it amounted to something, I'd buy myself something nice - a > camera lens, for example. After all, I would have spent it anyway! And if > you do that today, just think how fast it would add up. > > I was on a ride a couple of years ago by myself, stopped at a MacDonalds > to use the rest room and to eat my sandwich. A guy comes out, lights up > and we get into a conversation. He sees I'm a cyclist and says he's sorry, > hopes the cig doesn't offend me, etc., then says he's tried and he wishes > he could quit. So I ask him, would he quit if I gave him $5,000. "Hell > yes!" So I told him about the coffee can, and how he could pay himself > the money. If he smoked 3 packs a day, at $7.60 a pack, in a year that > would be $8,322. Snakes alive! > > > > -- > 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. > -- "I want the kind of six pack you can't drink." -- Micah -- 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.
