Oh my! These pictures are worth making posters! It appears like he is riding uphill on a muddy rugged narrow track with 53t chainring. Animal! (I say that with respect)
Guess almost none of the details we sweat about really mattered to him. He was more into riding than bikes. I recall Garth reminding me about 'riding' when I was lost thinking all kinds of tiny details about the 'bike' :) I have had conversations with folks who have done multi-month rides. One of them rode from Prudhoe Bay (which involves 400 miles of godforsaken Dalton/trucking/gravel highway) to Key West. I tend to ask them what wheel size, which tires, tire width, what brakes, bags, power source and so forth. They were quite under equipped, going by my list. Also interestingly none of them had strong opinions about any of those details. On Friday, 14 September 2018 09:17:15 UTC-7, Brewster Fong wrote: > > > > On Thursday, September 13, 2018 at 10:14:11 PM UTC-7, Joe Bernard wrote: >> >> There is no "like him". Jobst was a cantankerous fellow who rode hard and >> didn't think much of things like road conditions or exhaustion. > > > Agree, you need to do a search for his annual Europe trips. He had a > checklist of things he would pack. Here's a few iconic pictures of him > riding: > > > > With some guy named Tom Ritchey..... > > [image: Tom Ritchey: A Tribute to Jobst] > > A local ride > > [image: > https://us.ritcheylogic.com/media/magefan_blog/2015/05/3-peterjobstalpinerd1988800.jpg] > > Jobst was direct, opinonated and didn't suffer fools gladly. But he was > smart and used his engineering skills (formerly worked for Porsche and HP) > to help develop basically all of Avocet products and wrote the Bicycle > Wheel book. Good Luck! > -- 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.
