Beautiful high desert spring day, 73*, winds modest and discrete at 6 gusts to 7 from SW (and this is our windy season!), cerulean blue skies with a few child's picture book puffy clouds, pollen count low, and I work for myself and thus can with good conscience take a break and go for a ride. Total of 19 miles this afternoon including side trips.
The Joe Starck custom 26" wheeled gofast turns 20 in April; what a long strange trip it's been, too. Last year Chauncey Matthews replaced the original OEM "short horizontals" with *long* horizontals, and added st cage bosses; the longer dropouts accommodate the 15 t cruising gear but will accept a 12 t for the S3X if I decide to use it (95/71/59), and also accepts a 17/20 Dingle on the flip side of the Phil, for 76/67/57. I have to say that, because I ride principally for fun, and because this bike is just more delightful than any of my other bikes, including the almost-as-delightful 2003 Curt which turned 16 this month, and the also very delightful Matthews road-bike-for-dirt -- it just feels so light and deft and responsive, not to mention comfortable -- the other bikes are also comfortable. I turned 64 this month and while I am always the last person to remember my own birthdays (family and friends generally remind me), I did rather hilariously recall a song that I'd first learned about this time in 1968, after visitors left the Sgt. Pepper's album behind for us kids after their visit: "When I'm 64." I remember rather liking the song and thinking that age 64 was a kind of legendary thing, like the lost continent of Atlantis or just and efficient government. (Actually, the government thought came later.) But here I am. Note that I was a very enthusiastic and ignorant cyclist, already engaged in chronic upgrading, in spring 1969. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCTunqv1Xt4 -- *------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* *Still 'round the corner there may waitA new road or a secret gate,And though we pass them by today,Tomorrow we may come this wayAnd take the hidden paths that runTowards the Moon or to the Sun.* --- J.R.R. Tolkien ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching Other professional writing services Expensive! But good. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique -- 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.
