Dick puts on a nice display of Rivendell bikes at TOSRV Friday night registration and the next day on the road I often get questions about my AHH. One woman in a pace line remarked that she didn't realize fat tired bikes could go fast. (Little did she know that it is not the tires that make it go fast, it's that a 50 year old man is trying to keep up with an attractive woman that makes it go fast).
There is a 1971 photo in Eugene Sloane's Complete Book of Cycling that shows a pack of TOSRV riders climbing a hill. Of 20 bikes,10 have upright roadster style handlebars and most of them are wearing normal clothing. When I'm contemplating buying a new bike bit for TOSRV I think about the thousands of riders forty years ago who didn't need fancy bikes, shorts, lightweight this or that, to complete the 210 mile tour. They just got on their bikes and did it; and they do it on the same roads, over the same hills and in the same weather as we do today. As the bike boom hit North America Greg and June Siple took their large tour organizing expertise to a lot of new bike clubs to help them put on a tour. I think there are still rides called TOSRV East, TOSRV West, and TOSRV South. The NYC Five Borough ride is another offshoot of TOSRV. Next year will be TOSRV's 50th. Dick, I'll be working hard to get to Tracy Park before the beer truck closes. Adding 8 extra miles to the 105 mile route is not helping. -- 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.
