back when my then-riding buddy and I were out riding all the time, friends of ours upgraded to a Santana and put their big red Cannondale up for sale. We looked at each other, thought about it, and he bought it. The first test ride around the Fairmount loop was equal parts of fun and scary - he was much more into downhill speed than I ever was. Took us a couple of outings to get used to it, and each other on the tandem (ride around Hagg Lake). Figuring out how to stand was fun. Not as easy as you'd think.
Then we took it on a century. Many centuries. Two-day event rides. Seattle to Portland in a day. We were both strong singles riders, which probably helped. Much ongoing negotiation on how fast we were going to descend. Much crabbiness on my part when he didn't call all the bumps on the Burke-Gilman trail. It was more fun than not fun, but it did take some work. One fun memory - me calling out the turns through Vancouver BC at the finish of RSVP, with a whole swarm of pilot fish! His wife later thanked me for training him how to be a good captain. :-) -- 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.
