Paul: thanks; I actually liked the detail. It has been years -- 28 or 29,
come to think of it! -- since I was last in Atlanta, and I'm glad to hear
that the cycling infrastructure is better and that more cyclists are out on
the roads. I don't recall ever seeing a cyclist on the road throughout the
Patrick - sorry for the obscenely long post. I guess I have a lot to say
about biking in Atlanta, and some context helps.
Is the "G" name Grant? If so, there's a mansion in the Grant Park
neighborhood, which is where I grew up, that might be the one you're
remembering. Grant was a big deal arou
Bill -- don't take my style of writing to seriously; I don't. "Irony" is a
term very familiar to me.
I simply meant that you won't be able to discover much of an "objective"
reason for liking "honking"; it's just fun for some people, and fun is
obviously as subjective as they come. There is of cou
Well described. The Deacon Patrick does more of it than I do.
On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 2:38 PM, Deacon Patrick wrote:
> I'm jumping in, God help me, so anyone on the fence about my sanity, you
> can decidedly get off now. Honking is what the guy in the wee pock marked
> near half-century Toyota pi
Patrick Moore said "it's a futile attempt ".
I'm not sure I follow what "it" is. The only thing I was attempting was to
point out that fit and body position has a lot to do with how well your body
can put power into the bike. Specifically I assert that IF Patrick Moore gave
me his "most fun"
Bill -- it's a futile attempt; tease all you want, you can't understand it,
only experience it. "Fun" after all is entirely subjective; one man's fun
is another man's misery and a third man's bewilderment.
I love the discipline (trained; it's a minor art) of standing to climb; and
being conscious
Paul: I have paternal family ties to Atlanta (there is a
immediately-post-civil-war house that is now a city landmark that belonged
to family-by-marriage, whose name I very annoyingly now forget -- beings
with "G") but never lived there for any length of time. My impression of it
was that it is a v
