On Aug 15, 2011, at 6:36 AM, Subash wrote: > occasioned by drew's OT running post... > > did a century ride on the cycle yesterday (about 134 km in a little more
Interesting that you call that a century. The one ride I did of that length they called a metric double. > than six hours on an MTB on a regular highway :)). the highlight was > drafting for about 10km behind a petrol tanker truck at about 35km/h. > have seen guys doing it behind faster-moving trucks, but since this was > my first time, chose a not-so-fast truck to draft behind. quite a heady > and addictive feeling... :) I've never drafted a truck, but back in college when I did longer rides, I did a lot of wheelsucking. Perhaps the best one was the time I rode the Davis Double Century solo. My goal was to be back by dark, and when I was about 50 miles out it looked like there was no way I was going to make it. Then a tandem went past like I was standing still, so I asked if I could draft. They said "no problem" and I jumped in behind them. Within a couple of miles the draft line had grown to about 30 bikes. The reason the tandem was running so late was that at the start of the ride there are all these huge packs and draft lines of 50, maybe 150 bikes. Every year, someone will see a cop car at one of the farm road intersections and before they notice the cop is controlling traffic will slam on their brakes to keep from running the stop sign that they were going to blow off. It is not a good thing when someone suddenly slams on their brakes in the middle of a draft line. On another ride (I think it was the metric double that I did without training, on a bike without a front derailleur, I was chatting up a girl I had caught up with and she said she needed to back off the pace. I said she could draft me if she wanted. With her back there I slipped into the zone and pretty much forgot about everything until a while later, I heard a voice saying "you've pulled the line for a quite a while, I can lead if you want". I looked back and there was a long draft line behind me. > > -- > regards, subash > > -- > 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. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- 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.
