Riding sensibly helps a lot on both issues. The guys on the racing bikes in full race garb look really out of place. Sort of like driving a Ferrari down to the local coffee house for a cappucino.
dougP On Wednesday, August 20, 2014 6:12:52 PM UTC-7, Brian Campbell wrote: > > GAAAAH!! NO helmets, no spandex...how did the survive?????? > > On Tuesday, August 19, 2014 12:02:30 PM UTC-4, Matthew J wrote: >> >> Not upright and a bit more commercial (but its Brooks, so that is >> acceptable, right?) but fun video nonetheless. Whoever was running the >> camera did a great job. >> >> Note the two riders make good time Land's End to John O'Groats without >> dedicated bike clothes or helmets. I need to do this ride and soon. >> >> http://blog.brooksengland.com/wps/lands-end-to-john-ogroats-video/ >> >> On Sunday, August 17, 2014 12:50:41 AM UTC-5, Cecily Walker wrote: >>> >>> This really makes me miss my Dutch bike. >>> >>> On Friday, August 15, 2014 4:24:51 PM UTC-7, Patrick Moore wrote: >>>> >>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3smPA17D8M >>>> >>>> Sweet video, but the average uprightness quotient is a quamtum (new >>>> metric) measure above anything on the Rivendell site. >>>> >>>> I notice too how many of the riders lunge their torsos forward to get >>>> torque. >>>> >>>> Patrick "butt back and torso inclined" Moore >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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, Vereinigte Staaten >>>> >>>> ************************************* >>>> * "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.
