That is really bad. You are stirring up a serious case of bike lust, an irrational, driving desire to get another bike that, objectively, I do not need. This has the potential to cause serious domestic turmoil here. Oh what to do. I guess I will get to work on preparing a list of the reasons why I need another bike. Jim D. Massachusetts
--- On Fri, 2/26/10, PATRICK MOORE <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: From: PATRICK MOORE <bertin...@gmail.com> Subject: [RBW] Maiden Hillborne ride "disturbing and troubling". To: "Internet-bob" <internet-...@bikelist.org>, "rbw-owners-bunch" <rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com> Date: Friday, February 26, 2010, 6:46 PM (Albuquerque, NM, February 26, 2010) Interviewed today at his home nestled in one of Albuquerque's exclusive bosque neighborhoods, Patrick Moore reported his reactions to his initial ride on the SH delivered earlier today by UPS. Moore, who rode a brisk 23 mile out and back on Albuquerque's Rio Grande bike trail, was clearly troubled by his experience. "It wasn't at all what I expected," he said, adding with characteristic modesty that he wished to post his remarks to both lists "Because I don't want my many fans on either list to miss my apothegmatic utterances that, jewel-like, fall from my lotus blossom lips." (Hrrhmm.) Clearly upset, he went on to say that the riding experience promises to destroy a cycling lifetime's worth of carefully built and hoarded prejudices. "It's not right," he said. "My opinions ought not to be trifled with like this." Further conversation revealed that his concerns came down to the following: 1. Bars. The bars are fully 2" higher than those on his road bikes, and, with the 59 cm effective tt and the 10 cm stem, the reach is fully 4 cm further forward -- not to mention the 46 Noodles compared to the 42s he usually uses. "Even after I agressively buried that horrible, foot-long Technomic quill deep in the steerer, the bars were still a good one to two inches higher than the saddle. That's not right!" Even so, Moore rode the entire 23 miles in the hooks with absolutely no discomfort except for the numbness in the outer pad of his left hand, something that, he says, always afflicts him with any position except the hoods. "The hoods are troubling high, and I think they make the front end a bit too light," he added, saying that he fully intends to lower the Tektro levers an inch or so to a more normal position. The entire 23 miles were ridden without gloves on the hard, unforgiving cloth tape. "And who secures tape with *twine*," he asked? " "That's not right!" 2. Tires. "I was prepared to be generous and accept tires fatter than the skinnies I ride on pavement," he said, "but the huge fatness of the 33 mm Jack Browns was truly frightening when I first saw them. I had no idea that a mere 33 mm could be so *fat*!" He claimed that he didn't even check the pressure, but simply rode them as they came from the box, adding, "And they felt fast and smooth! I took a 1/4 mile turn on the gravel at speed, and they seemed to roll almost as well as on the pavement." Moore pointed out that he had not yet installed a computer, but, "I expect, not to be overly optimistic, that I averaged a bit over 23 mph, just judging by the way I was dropping all those young endodontists on their Madones and Sprectri; the wind was rather fierce, so I had to back off." 3. Saddle. "This is the scariest thing," he said, "I know that B 17s have a bad reputation, but I decided that, since Rivendell was too lazy to take the saddle out of the box, I might as well try it; after all, one needn't always select the most expensive and best; especially since this bike is just a beater." "Well! After taking the rubber mallet to it to get it all the way back, and fine tuning the tilt and height, I was very, very frightened to find that it *didn't* chafe the taintal area! And I was wearing cottong FOTLs! That's just scary!" Moore said he has reported his experiences to the authorities, in particular to the Department of Homeland Security, and expects a special team to be assembled to investigate what his DOHS contact agreed was "a very troubling possibility. "We are very open to the chance that this might develop into a true threat to the motherland," DOHS spokesperson Melinda Belinda said. "We are taking it very seriously. We extend all our sypmpathy to Mr. Moore and his family." Photos at 11! -- Patrick Moore Albuquerque, NM For professional resumes, contact Patrick Moore, ACRW at resumespecialt...@gmail.com (505) 227-0523 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
