Patrick, I have a Clem which I love and realistically covers the riding I do now. I just joined a gym which seems to fit my life/job situation, I'm thinking about selling my custom to someone who'll actually ride it. We get older, things change, it may be time for me to accept the changes.
On Wednesday, October 22, 2025 at 1:27:04 PM UTC-7 Patrick Moore wrote: > Joe: I’m sorry you have lost the taste for cycling. Me, I’ve felt that way > off and on over the decades but, in my case, at least, this is probably due > to my incorrigible need to push hard when riding*, when, if I just started > rides by “sauntering,” I’d end up (as I often have when I do this) actually > making better times (because I warm up first) and certainly having a better > time. > > OTOH, I’m 70, and probably one day before too long just walk away from > cycling, mostly to simplify my life psychologically as much as > physiologically and materially, and take to walking for an hour a day > instead (or, as on recent thread on iBoblist), perhaps do the military > walk-jog-walk routine. Or, just walk briskly. > > Meanwhile, cycling remains fun (thank God), tho’ just now on my bike path > out-’n’-back, I started out by pushing myself too hard in the 75” instead > of dropping to the 67" while feeling tired and ended up (or in NM English, > “landed out”) over-exerting and feeling bad while nonetheless moving > slowly. (15.29 and 15.63 mph out and back on flat paved path with modest > side wind on gofast fixed gear.) I suppose one solution to this problem is > to buy a Clem. > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM Joe Bernard <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I started riding with one earbud recently, playing music. I don't ride >> much these days and even the shorter jaunts were becoming boring for me, >> bordering on I might just quit altogether. A little music has rejuvenated >> me a bit. >> >> Joe "used to ride more" Bernard >> > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/c93b3e40-43ae-46f0-87b5-16ddacf68563n%40googlegroups.com.
