Sweet! I showed up at a laid back clydesdale club ride on my Quickbeam. One guy was using his GoPro to "ride" all winter on his indoor cycling wall and he loved the fact that he'd be chasing the guy who was the only one in street clothes, the only one from out of town, the only one on single speed, the only one on steel, the only one with platform pedals (let alone barefoot!) and the only one who'd ridden to the ride, all winter long and he'd still never catch me.
I have no idea how many people realized they too could ride in regular clothes because of that encounter, but at least they were exposed to the possibility. With abandon, Patrick On Thursday, April 21, 2016 at 12:50:29 AM UTC-6, Utah wrote: > > 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.
