and about kit. Flexible is everything. With my two bikes, I can keep permanent kit on both. On my go-fast I keep roadside gear in Acorn tubular bag and carry personal stuff in an Randi-Jo bartender, or a 3rd water bottle in a pinch. On my fender bike and load-hauler, my tools and tubes are in a Lemolo roll-up. My front rack can carry either a rando bag or small trunksack. The trunksack can carry a spare tire, Stans and sundries. I've also discovered my Randi-Jo MUT bag can fit a 25-oz. Laken stainless thermos, so I lashed it to the side of my rear rack, and I can carry up to 70 oz. liquid total. This morning, though, I replaced everything in the trunksack except a rag with my rain shell, and carried my cell phone and garage door opener in the MUT bag. It was handy having the rain shell when I made my retreat.
On Sunday, May 25, 2014 9:08:58 AM UTC-5, Ron Mc wrote: > > I got rained out this morning - not that I'm complaining. Right when I > reached the creek road, the rain was coming down hard enough to dig for my > rain shell, and that's the point to turn around. Not because my bike can't > handle it, but because I don't trust drivers on the twisty road - the > wounded water buffalo syndrome. Still, the climb home was good work. > > On Saturday, May 24, 2014 4:57:20 PM UTC-5, Patrick Moore wrote: >> >> It's interesting to hear others' habits. I have no desire at all to spend >> more than a few hours on the bike at a time, but I must, or ought, or, >> let's say it might be nice to, get out of the habit or rut of riding hard >> just for a few miles. I might rediscover the long rambles of my >> adolescence, when I would take 4 hour afternoon rides all over the Kenyan >> countryside -- but I pushed myself then, too, so must do so very slowly at >> first. >> >> Time is not always available, but I should calendar a 4 hour slot on a >> nice, calm day to just do a Tramway (hill; the hill proper is about 5 miles >> long) out and back or a ramble to Bernalillo. >> >> Lynn: I suppose that the secret to long rides is simply "ride lots"? And >> to start slowly? And to bring enough water and a bit of food? (I rode hard >> for 40-50 milers as a boy without ever thinking of water, let along food; >> getting such severe bonk that I'd see white spots on the pavement and have >> to push at the slightest incline.) I may find that with longer rides I need >> more than a 9 speed corncob (not quite but close, 16-26) on the Ram. >> >> Dave: you are the man, if you can push a 90" gear without a strong >> tailwind. My first bike had about that gear, but I've long since dropped to >> top out at about a 85" gear, on downhills and with tailwinds. OTOH, if you >> daughter is like I was at 16-18, I can imagine certainly needing one to >> keep up. >> >> Chris: "useful" riding will always be my preferred riding; it all seems >> more fun, certainly it is more appealing to get into the saddle at all, if >> I have a destination of some practical sort to ride to. >> >> Patrick Moore, who just rode precisely 6.57 miles to the PO and Grocery >> Store and back (I allow half a mile for stumbling around the store aisles), >> but who may not be able to ride the 8.5 miles to church if it keeps raining >> (rain!!!!) in ABQ, NM. >> >> >> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Patrick Moore <bert...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> The other thread on brevets got me thinking. As someone for whom a long >>> ride is 30 miles, it is very interesting to see what distances others like >>> to ride, and how. Yesterday's ride for me was a great one, combining >>> several things that I find pleasant: >>> >>> a mid-way "useful" destination (bike shop visit); >>> >>> pushing myself (I realize that "pushing", and even more the result of >>> that, is very relative to my ability) -- pushing a bigger gear than usual >>> outbound because of the tailwind (75" and 80" gears); pushing against a >>> stiff wind on the return, 72" with a mile or so in the 65"; 11 miles out >>> with a small circuit, and 9 miles straight back). >>> >>> a bike that is fun to push hard (ish): the Ram with nice close gearing, >>> and saddle and bar set up *just so* so that I can ride for extended periods >>> in the hooks, elbows bent, slow cadence, large torque. >>> >>> a distance -- 20 miles -- that somewhat stretched me at the pace I was >>> maintaining but that was long enough to get into stride and finish without >>> being exhausted. >>> >>> I find though that after 30 years of this sort of riding -- short, hard* >>> -- it is hard for me imaginatively and emotionally to break out of the >>> habit. I want to push hard from the end of the driveway, so to speak. And >>> even though I've learned -- it took me literally 8 years of trying -- to >>> ride more slowly, particularly for the first 2-3 miles, I get impatient >>> when I go too slowly. The down side of going hard is that you, or at least >>> I, rather quickly get to a point where I've had enough and want to go home. >>> >>> Incidentally, one reason I love fixed so much is that it works so well >>> for this sort of riding. >>> >>> * Hard used to be a lot harder when I was in my 30s and 40s; I'd >>> routinely do just under 20 suburban miles in an hour; my usual routes were >>> 18-20 miles taking me 55-65 minutes; or 15-16 mile one way commutes >>> (sometimes expanded to 20) averaging 16-17 clock running across town, 7 >>> miles climbing fixed, depending whether or not there was a wind off the >>> mountains in the morning.) >>> >>> But at 59I can't push myself as I did at 49 or 39, and I keep meaning to >>> try longer -- let's say 40 miles -- and slower rides. The main reason for >>> buying the Ram at the very end of 2012 was to ride longer and easier; so >>> far that hasn't happened. >>> >>> I'm not looking for advice, just thinking out loud. I have to say that I >>> enjoy cycling even more now that I am 4 mph slower -- on the two legs >>> yesterday I averaged 14.85 out and 13.69 in, but those numbers don't mean >>> anything since I left Cyclemeter running as I stopped 3 times outbound to >>> adjust and readjust a cleat, and inbound stopped at Sprouts to get some >>> food. A typical run to the PO and grocery, clock running, 3 miles turned >>> into 15, is 12.5-13.5. >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, and letters that get interviews. >> By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. >> Other professional writing services. >> http://www.resumespecialties.com/ >> Patrick Moore >> Albuquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Etats Unis >> >> ************************************* >> >> “Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never >> was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. >> Where is there a place for you to be? No place. >> >> "Nothing outside you can give you any place," he said. "You needn't to >> look at the sky because it's not going to open up and show no place behind >> it. You needn't to search for any hole in the ground to look through into >> somewhere else. You can't go neither forwards nor backwards into your >> daddy's time nor your children's if you have them. In yourself right now is >> all the place you've got. If there was any Fall, look there, if there was >> any Redemption, look there, and if you expect any Judgment, look there, >> because they all three will have to be in your time and your body and where >> in your time and your body can they be? >> "Where in your time and your body has Jesus redeemed you?" he cried. >> "Show me where because I don't see the place. If there was a place where >> Jesus had redeemed you that would be the place for you to be, but which of >> you can find it?” >> ― Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood >> >> -- 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.
