Dingding - I LOVE it !!! Might just be one of the best bicycle videos I've yet to see on the internet. Great soundtrack too! Thanks for sharing. (Please invite me to your Webby Awards "Best Video award" party)
On Saturday, April 29, 2023 at 4:36:11 PM UTC-4 Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! wrote: > It’s about to get sillier. I made a video in response to Patrick’s thread. > I’m attaching it as a link here, since it’s too big to include in the text. > I changed my Instagram to public for this, but I’ll switch it back to > private soon, so watch it before I do! > > I’m on a roll over there with taking classic, classy Rivendells and > putting them to tacky hit music. 5 years ago you long-time Riv fans would > have thrown me out of here, but I think I’ve worn you down enough that you > will find this palatable. Or not! > > https://www.instagram.com/reel/CrohxSlgzAY/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= > On Saturday, April 29, 2023 at 3:24:54 PM UTC-4 steve...@gmail.com wrote: > >> "My bike is lighter than a bike that's heavier than my bike but heavier >> than a bike that's lighter than my bike. True story. " >> >> Now Joe, that's just silly. Come to think of it, this whole thread is >> just silly - which is probably why I keep following it ; ) >> >> On Friday, April 28, 2023 at 11:30:26 PM UTC-4 Joe Bernard wrote: >> >>> My bike is lighter than a bike that's heavier than my bike but heavier >>> than a bike that's lighter than my bike. True story. >>> >>> On Friday, April 28, 2023 at 5:43:55 PM UTC-7 Patrick Moore wrote: >>> >>>> https://youtu.be/R3Uf4OKYqzs >>>> >>>> The narrator is Phil Ligget's brother. >>>> >>>> On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 6:37 PM Patrick Moore <bert...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Now that's interesting. Watch even older videos of Coppi and Bartalli >>>>> on climbs and on the flats; 50 rpm standing in a 62" gear, and -- Coppi >>>>> -- >>>>> 120 rpm bursts in a 93" high alternating with coasting on the flats (48 X >>>>> 14-21 4 speed); much as I used to ride (we pros share a great deal) with >>>>> the difference that (this was 30 years ago) my flatland cruising was >>>>> about >>>>> 64" at 108+ rpm for 20+ mph. No longer! 90 in a 76" gear is high. Funny, >>>>> it >>>>> was riding fixed that transformed me from a twiddler to a masher; true. >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 6:11 PM Garth <gart...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> ... As I've watched pro road cycling since the 70/80's, this is how >>>>>> everyone rode. Slow rpm in big gears uphill and huge gears spinning high >>>>>> rpm with great supple' going downhill and on the flats. Watch Greg >>>>>> Lemond >>>>>> in the 80's in race videos, he was fluid from the very low to very high >>>>>> rpm. To be a pro you pretty much had to be able to do that. That started >>>>>> to >>>>>> change in the early 90's, where higher uphill rpm were beginning to >>>>>> happen, >>>>>> but that time frame coincided with the introduction of the drug EPO, >>>>>> which >>>>>> basically gave riders more oxygen in the blood so they could push those >>>>>> higher rpm without running out of oxygen. That's how the story goes as I >>>>>> understood it at least. Even still, you see riders ride in every >>>>>> conceivable way and so one must caution against implying "everyone does >>>>>> this or that" because everyone is unique in their own way. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> Patrick Moore >>>> Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum >>>> >>>> -- 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/33989bb4-0a8f-4b82-9bbd-f540eb9522ddn%40googlegroups.com.
