> > You really don't want to be riding an open-wheeled bike in the rain on > rural roads in the Amish country...
Or, just as accurately, follow an open-wheeled bicycle in Amish country. Andy Cheatham Pittsburgh On Thursday, August 18, 2016 at 4:36:50 PM UTC-4, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > > > On 08/18/2016 04:11 PM, JohnS wrote: > > Thanks for the elevation profile, looks a lot like the rollers that > > I'm use to at home, so I think I'll go with the QB. The only difficult > > climb will be the one at the 33 mile point, which I think is after the > > lunch stop. > > Lunch is at 36.4, so it's before lunch. > > I saw a very funny thing on that climb once, a few years ago. I'm > grinding up at my typical sub-10 mph pace and this young woman comes > blasting by me out of the saddle snarling something at me as she goes > by; gets about 5 or 10 yards ahead of me and suddenly cuts hard right > into a driveway just before the crest, wobbles to a stop, gets off - > practically falls off - the bike and flops down on the ground totally > exhausted and completely out of breath. > > > > I'll use the low gear on that one. The climb before it is drawn out, > > shouldn't be a problem. Hopefully the weather will cooperate. > > The current forecast has a 90% chance of thunderstorms "in the > evening". Of course, that doesn't mean we won't see any earlier in the > day. In any event, I'm bringing a bike with fenders. You really don't > want to be riding an open-wheeled bike in the rain on rural roads in the > Amish country... > -- 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.
