Congrats, Eric! I'll have to pick your brain on how to ss long distances. My goal for this season is to do a 200+k dirt road/trail ride. My plan at this point is to:
-- get the Quickbeam (I'll outfit it with 32t/40t front rings and on the rear a 16t/19t Dos Eno and a 22t bail out on the flip side). -- just start riding and see how far/long I go and work up from there. Any and all advice and experience and wisdom welcome and appreciated. With abandon, Patrick On Sunday, May 11, 2014 10:32:29 AM UTC-6, Eric Norris wrote: > > I rode the Davis Double Century workers ride yesterday on Patrick M's > former Motobecane, equipped with a three-speed hub. Only used the top two > gears. My legs today don't feel any worse than they would if I had used a > traditional multi-speed bike. > > Eric N > www.CampyOnly.com > CampyOnlyGuy.blogspot.com > Twitter: @CampyOnlyGuy > > On May 10, 2014, at 4:43 PM, Deacon Patrick <lamon...@mac.com<javascript:>> > wrote: > > On today’s single track ride I used exactly two gears, shifting four times > for terrain going either up or down. What an amazing flow to the ride! > Contemplation is so easy to enter into, and that’s still with a derailure. > I am excited to see what no derailure brings to the party! > > I understand now why the explanations of why people love to ride mountain > trails single speed always fail to answer the question of why they love it > so. It is transcendent, wild, free and unable to be captured or contained > in words. It has a flow and rhythm that melt into the wind breathing > through the trees and the sound of tires on loose gravel and my breathing > and all the clay over which I ride. > > The “Wow!” continues. Grin. > Though these pictures are poor at conveying it: > https://www.flickr.com/photos/32311885@N07/sets/72157644198250827/ > > With abandon, > Patrick > > *www.MindYourHeadCoop.org <http://www.MindYourHeadCoop.org>* > *www.OurHolyConception.org <http://www.OurHolyConception.org>* > > -- > 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-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> > . > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- 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/d/optout.
