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On Thursday, April 4, 2019 at 9:47:01 AM UTC-5, Robert Hakim wrote: > > This wasn't so recent as it was memorable... >> >> > A few short days after my partner and I moved to our new neighborhood, we > were riding back from the store- groceries in the basket. > A spandex clad racer on an uber-stiff, ultra racey carbon rig slowed down > as he passed us and in a very odd, loony voice proclaimed: > > "Ha! People! Real, live people! On bikes!" > > Then he down-shifted and sped off. > > The route we take to the store is quite popular with recreational roadies, > wannabee racers, and actual racers. Sometimes one will see things like > grocery bags dangling from aero-bars on tri-bikes. The coffee shop in the > neighborhood is often filled with the click-clack of road cleats and carbon > soles, and echoes with the elitist, competitive "I rode farther and faster" > chatter one would expect around so many racers. > > I'm not quite sure if that rider was mocking us, or praising our > individuality for riding more practical bicycles in an area where "sport" > riding is the generally accepted style. > > Either way, it was a very bizarre interaction, and both Emily and I were > so dumbfounded as to what had happened that we couldn't even think of a > reply as he raced away. > We just looked at each other, shrugged, and giggled. > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
