> > When I moved to Dallas (28 years ago) I was pretty heavily involved with > Mountain bike racing and I was decently quick, so much so that i would make > a point of passing the groups of roadies riding around White Rock Lake; At > some point I thought "you know I am just out here riding, I don't really > need to crush people into the ground! I just wanna enjoy riding around" > (NOTE: this was just before the Carbon Fiber, Sub 20lb. bike era; I could > never have kept up with those) >
So to that end, I went back to riding one speed Cruisers (OK a couple 7 speeders as well), but the point was, although I was on a light weight cruiser (but portly by comparison) & very upright bike and I really didn't have much chance to PASS anybody! This really dissuaded me from the urge to chase and see how fast I could go, it also encouraged me to stop and smell the roses (and have a Taco) Nowadays I have a Groove; I know just how much I can put into the pedals and A) make it comfortably to my destination B) Not punish my knees too much! and C) not be a red faced sweaty mess when I got where I was going. Still, it happens pretty regularly that I have some guy on a road bike come blowing by me only to get about 50 yards in front of me and basically drop anchor for several miles. That tells me one thing; I was the target of some misguided overtaking maneuver! This kind of makes me roll my eyes, but otherwise I find it amusing. There's a guy who rides the Northhaven Trail, he must be 70. He's got his kit on and a pretty nice road bike with 23mm tires; about 10 days ago I was riding my Bombora just after I had put the tubeless tires on I had too low of tire pressure so as a result was going slower than I should have been, but at the turnaround I stopped to eat a granola bar, he came & turned around headed back East. I started up going my normal pace when I came up on him. at first I hung back figuring he was going slowly temporarily, but after a while I just decided to go around him and I made some sort of small talk as I went by just to be friendly. As far as I knew that was it, I really wasn't paying any attention to where he was or if he was still back there. Then about a mile before I turned off he comes up by me and says "oh, I finally caught you" Since I really wasn't racing the guy I said " hey, there ya go!" (Or something like that) Point is I may have 15 years on that guy, but I also have about 50 extra pounds he doesn't have!!! Additionally I've seen him there a couple more times and he seems to live right close to the trail. It's an extra 6 miles for me to and from the trail head. Thing is if you are passing someone or they are passing you, the two of you are not only on different bikes, but different schedules as well. Leah, Congratulations on your "win" but maybe that guy was just finishing a Century? Doesn't matter though as long as you got some satisfaction out of it! ;-) -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/4e390e0f-b2ba-4df5-858f-fb750810f9ca%40googlegroups.com.
