Re: [RBW] Re: Climbing and the consequences

2011-08-05 Thread René Sterental
The power of tour legs did that... With a little aid from a loose QR!!! LOL!!! Sent from my iPhone 4 On Aug 5, 2011, at 11:26 AM, "cyclotour...@gmail.com" wrote: > D'oh! > > At least you can imagine how much faster you'll be today! > > On Aug 5, 4:42 am, Michael Hechmer wrote: >> Ah sweet spee

[RBW] Re: Climbing and the consequences

2011-08-05 Thread cyclotour...@gmail.com
D'oh! At least you can imagine how much faster you'll be today! On Aug 5, 4:42 am, Michael Hechmer wrote: > Ah sweet speed; and it's so much nicer when some yokel doesn't pass you, > then realize he's going way too fast and slam on his brakes! > > Yesterday I had my all time most embarrassing hi

[RBW] Re: Climbing and the consequences

2011-08-05 Thread Michael Hechmer
Ah sweet speed; and it's so much nicer when some yokel doesn't pass you, then realize he's going way too fast and slam on his brakes! Yesterday I had my all time most embarrassing hill climbing experience. It began by spending the morning up and down ladders painting windows until the sun frie

[RBW] Re: Climbing and the consequences

2011-08-04 Thread Amit Singh
Congrats Dude. You've got some serious leg pumping endurance to maintain a 3 hour uphill battle. After you finish something like that it helps to put things into perspective. Previous mountains become hills and hills become flat-ish fun. Keep the good energy flowing, legs pumping and photos com

[RBW] Re: Climbing and the consequences

2011-08-03 Thread cyclotour...@gmail.com
This downhill had me hitting 42mph and averaging 30 on the downhills... not too shabby for a single! Would be hitting warp speed on a tandem!!! On Aug 3, 4:03 am, Michael Hechmer wrote: > The great thing about climbing is that every mountain has a top!  And you > get to go downhill. > > We did a

[RBW] Re: Climbing and the consequences

2011-08-03 Thread Michael Hechmer
The great thing about climbing is that every mountain has a top! And you get to go downhill. We did a short charity ride on the tandem over the weekend and the first half was all uphill, climbing 1300+ feet in fifteen miles of mostly dirt roads. Tandems don't like going uphill and the 130 yea

[RBW] Re: Climbing and the consequences

2011-08-02 Thread Esteban
Nice work. I'd like to do it. On Aug 2, 9:25 pm, cyclotourist wrote: > I had to do something to beat the heat!!!  I think the heat make it extra > hard, but mentally it is a challenge as well.  There's a couple mile > straightaway that just goes on, and on, and on...  And yeah, the return trip >