On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 12:58 PM, SteveD <stephendem...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Everyone's enjoying their day on the tree-lined trail with a nice little > breeze. You notice that there's a threesome of pedestrians abreast of each > other, chatting, about 50 feet or so ahead of you. There are other cyclists > "on your lefting" as they pass. The trail is getting a little congested, and > your preparing to slow down as you approach the pedestrians to pass. "On > your left," the pedestrian don't heed your warning and at the same time some > rider goes zipping by you without any warning as you're making your move, > oblivious of the situation, causing you to slam on your brakes in order to > not run into the people in front of you, and causes you to jar your > shoulder, and hit you pubic bone against the bike stem and cut your leg on > the chain ring as you try to stabilize your bike without taking a full-on > fall. And, your spouse who is riding behind you, swerves to the left across > the trail and into the ditch that runs alongside it so that he/she doesn't > rear-end you. Not a pretty scene. >
Uh, yeah. The times I've ridden the BGT it was a zoo, pretty much from Seattle to the top of the lake. Yes there's a 15mph speed limit but a) that's too fast for when it's crowded and b) there are too many utter morons who completely ignore it, stop signs, signals and all of the other conventions that are place to make the use of MUPS safe (not to mention roads!) Last week I road SAGBRAW here in Wisconsin. On the first day there was an option to take a MUP for the last stretch along the Lake Michigan into Manitowoc. I took the road instead because it was a hot day, I knew the path would be crowded and I wanted to get in to the finish so I could take a shower. Not a good time to be slowing to 15mph and doing the slalom with oblivious pedestrians. Riv content - I wondered around a couple of the overnight stops checking out the bikes but the closest I saw to a Rivendell was my Mariposa (modified 1st generation Rivendell lugs.) It was a bit shocking after seeing so many Rams, Atlantises and Riv's back in the Seattle area. Out of 400+ riders you could probably count the number of lugged bikes on two hands. OTOH, they were out there riding because they enjoy it so I won't gripe about their rides of choice :) -Ken -- 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.
