23 miles today, at a leisurely pace with my brother Peter out from LA and Crownpoint (NM) down the old Corrales road -- Corrales being a combination of old Hispanic farming community, rural slum and yuppie McMansions (Santa Fe style). I on my Curt commuter fixed (72") and Peter on one of his -- what, 20 bikes? -- he has to stop and calculate; this one a nice old lugged, Trek MTB in a large size with new Performance Forte 1.25 slicks at $8 on sale, which he claims are very nice tires, making me wonder if I got a good deal on my Kojaks. We did the usual stop at Stevie's Happy Bikes where we saw Stevie's pristine 1970 Raleigh Sport with full chaincase and Big Brooks (the nicest Sport I've seen) and where Peter with his usual luck picked up a pair of nice, if not cherry, 7401 Look Clones for $8 while all I got was a 13-30 7 sp SunTour fw for $3. Stevie's 100 year old adobe in the photos attached.
I allowed myself to be entirely supine and let Peter lead the way, which had the advantage that he set the pace so that we rode slowly and I did not try to push things. That left me enough energy to keep up with him in the 72" on the 1-mile Meadowlark hill without feeling exhausted at the top. Circa 48 to 50 F with a breeze. I was a bit chagrined when a pretty young woman (the inevitable fast blonde) on a crabon fibre zoomed past us on the return leg but, luckily for me, I was following Peter whom this bothered not a bit and so was saved from the inevitable disgrace of trying to catch up and failing miserably. A stop at Albertson's for dinner makings, then to my mother's for -- the first in months if not over a year -- cheeseburgers, just in time for this weekend's Meatfare Sunday, the last day for meat before the Orthodox Great Lent. (Next Sunday is Cheesefare, then, if you are strict, which I am not, no animal products until Pascha. If you are really strict, no oil or wine, either. Fish is meat for the Orthodox, except for shellfish like lobster which does not count thanks to outdated Aristotelian zoology.) -- Patrick Moore Albuquerque, NM For professional resumes, contact Patrick Moore, ACRW http://resumespecialties.com/index.html -- 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-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.
