The ghost of weather past loomed heavy in my mind, or maybe the experience of degraded braking in the pouring rain of the past event, so I took the commuter. It seemed like a good plan for an hour or so, benign for a few hours after that and not the right choice for the last hour.
I realized too late that I was not spending adequate effort documenting by pictures, my efforts were being concentrated on pedaling. I did spend a lot of time with riders who've never ridden the places, distances or hills which we were. I was surprised by the determination displayed by the many part time riders. Route: http://pedalpgh.org/the-ride/pj-dick-trumbull-and-lindy-paving-metric-century/ Since I was riding my commuter had adequate supplies for my own support (in event of worst case weather) and helped a rider with a flat who had no tube patch or pump. He marveled at my frame pump (that's twice in two weeks!) exclaiming "what's that?" I handed off a couple Clif Bars and water bottles to a couple who were near bonking a few hundred yards short of a hill top and a downhill to a rest stop. The upside of my bike choice was that it really goes downhill and handled with no fear on the 700 x 38c Marathons. It helped that the route seemed to tie together many legs of rides our little Tuesday evening group takes so each piece was very familiar territory. Next time I'll err toward the Ram. The difference in fatigue between a bike that planes and one that doesn't was very evident, the Disc Trucker took it out of me with its lack of suppleness, without a doubt. I can say I had fatigue in my knees and thighs that I don't have after long rides on the Rambouillet. One interesting interaction was as I came up a steep approach to a red stoplight at a junction with a road where we were to turn left and one of the self-congradualatory group commented that the sensor wasn't tripping because all of them were on carbon fiber bikes. Probably just timed light but once green I just rode around them and uphill for the next mile, never to be seen again. Some thoughts are better left unsaid. A more leisurely time planned for the next, more pictures on route. Here's what I've got: https://goo.gl/photos/nxTr2hwvsbUNfF13A Andy Cheatham Pittsburgh On Sunday, August 30, 2015 at 7:45:32 AM UTC-4, Garth wrote: > > As a bit a weather junkie myself , I go to various radars all the time . > Being just East of you we know how often it rains/snows here , the > Northwest US has no corner on rainy/snowy/cloudy days ! Countless times > though these green blobs on radar turn out to be just light rain and/or > sprinkles , sometimes not even that . By now you're riding and it appears > the blob is already gone, so ride on and take many pictures ! > -- 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.
