My favorite HHH story is as follows; An ex-work colleague of my wife's who has became a great family friend decided upon retirement to take up cycling for his health. His wife poo-poohed the whole idea particularly when it came to spending money (and she is not one to be messed with, we'll leave it at that). So he dug out an old 70s Peugeot from the back of the garage, got it tuned up & set about in his shorts & t-shirt to go riding. And riding he did, and a whole lot of it, then some more. Wife was still unconvinced but finally she relented & said if he could finish the HHH he could spend some money on a new bike. So on the Peugeot, in his gym shorts & t-shirt he did exactly that, even posting a respectable time and passing quite a few no-doubt gobsmacked fellow cyclists on the way! This guy is no quitter.
So with his weekend bike buying pass in hand he heads to Richardson Bike Mart & picks out a new bike. But after riding for a couple of days he realizes it's not a good fit & returns to the store to see what he can do. Whereupon he bumps into Jim Hoyt, the founder of Richardson Bike Mart (also the man responsible for discovering Lance Armstrong). They get to chatting and obviously Jim is as impressed as the rest of us with the achievements on the old 10 speed, empathizes with the disappointment around the new bike & tells my friend, that he's considering upgrading his own bike and since they're pretty much identical size & weight it would be perfect for him and he could cut a deal on it too. Long & the short of it, my friend still puts on a couple of hundred plus miles a week on his "new to him" full Dura-Ace Litespeed Titanium he got for just under $1,000! On Monday, February 22, 2021 at 2:30:13 PM UTC-6 Lynn Haas wrote: > I rode the HHH in 2016 on a Surly LHT. I got a lot of second looks, but at > the end of the day I was still relatively fresh and free of aches & pains. > A steel bike with a relaxed fit is fantastic for a century. I wanted to do > it again this year but the pandemic conspired against me. > > > > > I always wanted to tell Grant when he was on a lycra rant, dude try > riding in Texas in July in cotton! > > Speak for yourself. When I had a bike commute I generally saw between 50 > to 100 other bike commuters, and only one or two in lycra or bike shorts. > If I get to ride the HHH again I plan to wear a regular sleeveless top, > partly for comfort and partly just to mess with peoples’ heads. > > Lynn (in Austin) -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/0b46043e-10cd-480f-b4d5-274c7fa9f8c2n%40googlegroups.com.
