On Thursday, November 14, 2013 11:47:18 AM UTC-5, Ron Mc wrote: > > I like the bar and stem shifter combination on his prewar Evans > > http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uyGpYXb0Jro/TTtxtIAWUtI/AAAAAAAAAMs/QYm6dCLwbtU/s1600/IMG_7300.jpg >
It's also sporting a Riv bottle. > I don't know if you've ever visited the CABE - none of those guys actually > ride bikes - they just memorialize them > >> >> Well, another blog post of his<http://v-ccnewengland.blogspot.com/2012/05/rays-waterworks-ride.html>tries to rebuke this, while keeping an air of entitlement: *The longest and best yet rendition of a New England Rough-stuff Section classic: miles off-road, beginning with two-plus on railroad ballast guarded by poison ivy and an army of ticks - our kind of road. * *One rides these ways aware that mainstream cycling advocates are lobbying to clear and pave them over, so that the unadventurous may ride them as easily as driving down the Mass Pike. Enjoy them while they remain unspoilt.* Technically, they were "spoilt" once the rails were dismantled and trains stopped traveling them, since that's what they were built for. Whoever dreamed when they were built that railroad ballasts would be ridden 100 years later by guys born 50 years later, on bikes made 40 years later? I would love to read BikeSnobNYC's take on of all this. Anton -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
