On Wednesday, December 12, 2012 12:08:26 AM UTC-8, charlie wrote: > > To quote from a Grant podcast as best as I can recollect....."Ask > yourself, would I ride these super long rides if I could not talk about > them or brag in any way about them to anyone?"
I remember Grant had a blog post about that earlier this year. I sent him an email saying that while I frequently engaged in rides of 80+ miles a lot of this has to do with the fact that I don't drive. I live in Portland, OR and if I want to check out the view from Larch Mtn, see Multnomah Falls or get into the woods in the Mt Hood National Forest then I'm gonna ride out there and that means doing a long ride. I'm all for rambling around town or a leisurely ramble through Forest Park, but again, if I want the epic view from the top of Larch Mtn, then I gotta ride up there. It's erroneous to assume that the only reason people ride long distances is because it feels good when you stop or for bragging rights. Sure, two years ago I rode my Quickbeam all the way to the top of Larch Mtn and back on a hot day and I posted a link to the pictures of the ride here. But it's not bragging it's sharing experience. Yeah, I wanted to see what that was like and if I could do it, but it was also a quite pleasurable experience. I've never done a road race, triathlon or participated in any kind of organized century or charity ride other than riding brevets. The idea of riding an organized century holds absolutely no appeal. Like Ted D. stated above "I love riding bicycles, and the more time I spend on a bicycle, the happier I am." What's so hard to understand about that? --mike -- 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/-/G9vD46_B-8kJ. 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.
