My hat's off to all of you who attempt this sort of thing. As I mentioned in a previous post, we visited my son and his family in Colo Springs at the end of September and drove up Pike's Peak. When we got to the top I walked around feeling light headed and my wife complained of chest pressure from the altitude. 'Course we haven't lived our lives at the 6,000 or so feet of Springs so we weren't even used to the minimal altitude at the base and we're both well over 60, but still it seems like an amazing feat to me to climb those mountain passes. Wait until Spring and keep it up!
On Wednesday, October 15, 2014 3:54:19 PM UTC-5, Deacon Patrick wrote: > > Sounds great, Tim and Dave. Let me know and hopefully the ride elves will > all come together. Just be forewarned that my brain requires special > preparation on your part to get you as scent-free as possible. > > I was really looking forward to trying this because it is paved and I > don't ride much paved, and the cars have a speed limit of 30 mph. They gave > me a wide berth, save one red-neck truck. The rhythm of a road ride is > vastly different from gravel and quadruply from single-track. The only > brain issue I had was with the smell of burning brakes from the numb-nuts > who were descending without using low gear. I can't tell how big a factor > that was, as it began to happen at the same time and the headwinds picking > up. Fortunately the winds carried them away quickly. Grin. > > With abandon, > Patrick > -- 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.
