On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 15:57 -0400, Peter Morgano wrote: > Hey, I grew up in Monticello, NY. My mom taught at the high school, we > moved out when I was around 8-9. Lived in beautiful Jeffersonville, > next to the cemetary. Good fishing country. My dad used to go hunting > up there with my grandfather until he passed away. I imagine that > would be good riding up there on the country roads but you are right, > in that setting I would wear a helmet, for one since the speed limit > is 55mph and you have some big old hills to descend.
We started the Catskill Wheelmen in the spring of 1972. We were all beginners, none had ever ridden with a bike club before. Every ride seemed to have around 4,000 feet of climbing: turn at the corner, climb 1,000 feet, descend 1,000 feet, come to a 4-way stop sign, stop, climb 1,000 feet. All mountains, as I recall it, and not made any easier by the baby seat on the back of my bike, where I carried my daughter. Our longest ride ever that first year was 25 miles, all downhill: we drove our cars down to Middletown, parked at a restaurant, rode back to the ride start in a big old International Harvester SUV-ancestor, then rode downhill 25 miles, put the bikes in the car, had a celebratory lunch and called it a season. The next year they put on a century. -- 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.
