On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 03:18:48PM -0500, frank theriault wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 2:47 PM, John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yep. I'm not going to worry too much about bike weight while I've got > > too many additional pounds around my waist. Getting rid of that extra > > weight is one reason why I've got back on a bike again. > > Back when I read Bicycling Magazine (over a decade ago) that's exactly > what they said: > > It's idiotic to pay thousands to shed a pound or two (or now, > multi-thousands to get those last few ounces off!) when the vast > majority of cyclists could stand to lose 10 pounds off their gut. > > ;-) > > (not referring to you, John, I'm paraphrasing Bicycling)
Ten pounds would be an understatement, in my case. I could stand to lose more than my bike weighs, and that's just a regular bike - no fancy lightweight machine. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
