Michael, you have described the joy of riding. I am constantly amazed, at age 59, how much fun bicycling continues to be. At least daily, the departure route I take from my home involves a series of turns down the course of a hill. EVERY time I ride this I am delighted. Thank you for your short posting. Tim Petersen
On Friday, August 14, 2015 at 6:33:06 PM UTC-5, Michael Hechmer wrote: > > After a long summer of many guest and busyness I got out for a two hour > ride this morning. It was humid and I went sans helmet (lets not have an > argument). I rode for an hour into the wind before swinging around, > picking up fresh pavement, a wide shoulder and a delightful tailwind. I'm > somewhere between flying and heaven. Rolling hills but mostly big ring > cruising... not racing, just cruising along at an exhilarating pace. > > There have been a number of topics lately that dealt with ring, cog & > shifting issues. Smooth shifting adds a lot to the joy of riding. I have > had a 40/34 White VBC crank with pinned rings and a Campy CD FD on this > bike for 4 or 5 years now and have no memory of ever missing a front end > shift. No struggles, no skating, no jumping. Just DT shifters I flick > with my thumb across a 44/30. Usually I miss about 1 rear shift every two > hours and that's just what happened today. Nine speed ultegra HG cassette, > conex chain, Shimano 6700 CD RD 6700. Smooth as can be. > > A new set of Grand Bois Cerf 29mm tires. Fine for my 9 miles of dirt and > glorious on that new pavement. > > Now, if only the car and the lawn mower were that good! > Michael > -- 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.
