I was going to make a reply on Julian's post on unwanted criticism coming from others, but I decided to start my own.
I used to sign up for rides and train for them and ride with a group with a common kit and all that. As I had kids and life got in the way I also got burned out on the racing grind. Then one day while listening to NPR driving to work this guy came on talking about bikes. I generally love bikes (like most of us do in this community) so I tuned in intently. It was Grant and he was making some really great points. My favorite was about how we are the only place in the world that people dress for racing to ride to work. I was hooked! I am now an advocate for the Unracer, just ride movement. As Grant says, I'm not anti-racer, I am just not trying to be a racer or imitating racers, I just like to ride my bike. So I had a dilbert moment at work recently. I am the chair of our Site Planning Committee at work. The wellness committee came to us looking for better bike parking next to showers and lockers for people who like to shower and change clothes after their commute. I helped them with the requests and we got some proposals and estimates together and presented them to the executive sponsors of the committee for their support. I am known for being a bike commuter so one of the people on the committee asked me, "you ride your bike to work, are you going to use the new parking area?". I just smiled and said "no". Of course they didn't understand how I could be a bike commuter and not use new bike parking convenient to showers and lockers (but not my desk). My answer "because I don't need take a shower or change my clothes because I don't race to work, I just ride ride my bike." I do think it is important to recognize that we are the wierd ones... and that is okay. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
