Ah sweet speed; and it's so much nicer when some yokel doesn't pass you, then realize he's going way too fast and slam on his brakes!
Yesterday I had my all time most embarrassing hill climbing experience. It began by spending the morning up and down ladders painting windows until the sun fried my brain. So I decided to jump on a bike and ride to my favorite swimming hole; but first I swapped out the wheels to handle the two long stretches of dirt roads. It's about a half hour ride in each direction and goes up and over a steep hill in both directions. On the way out I noticed some chain skip as I climbed in the 34/28. But it was on the way back that things got "interesting." The return hill is about 1 1/4 miles and starts up very gradually until it hits 10% for the last 300 yards. As you look up the road it never looks very steep, but I've been climbing it for 20 years and know that if I push too hard at the bottom I'll be cooked at the top. Usually I climb it in a 34/28 combination, but I can't count how many times I felt very tired and asked myself, "do I have a flat tire?" Well, yesterday I was struggling in a 28/28 and asking that very question, so at the top I stopped and check, and sure enough my front tire was down about 50%! It's two more miles of dirt road to get home so I soldiered on, going carefully down the other side of the hill. When I got into my yard, got off the bike, and tried to roll it into my shop, it would not move. That's when I looked at the rear wheel and saw that it had slipped from the dropout and was jammed against the chainstay. Dah, light dawns slowly on marble head. Michael hoping for a better ride today. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/Bw1yk4kSPXQJ. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@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.
