I liked your video John - thanks for sharing. Looked like a nice route. Nick - good proof of what I wrote about ride memories, that was 40 years ago and you shared some good details that I could easily visualize.
On Monday, March 18, 2024 at 5:19:58 PM UTC-4 Nick Payne wrote: > About 40 years ago, when I was a racing cyclist, I rode in an early season > spring race (three laps of a 50km circuit) that started in nice sunny > conditions with the temperature somewhere around 60-65F, so we all started > in shorts and short sleeves. Towards the end of the second lap, the wind > started to pick up and rather black clouds started rolling in, and shortly > after we started the final lap, it started to rain and the temperature > dropped quite noticeably. With about 30km left it started to hail and the > wind increased and the temperature dropped further. By the time we finished > (in dribs and drabs, my wife who was at the finish line told me that the > largest bunch she saw finishing was three or four riders), there was > several inches of hail on the ground, and my fingers were so cold that I > couldn't feel what I was touching. I was shaking uncontrollably, and had > real trouble undoing my toestraps so that I could get my feet out of the > pedals. I saw some cyclists who couldn't manage to get their toestraps > loosened at all - when they came to a halt, they just toppled over > sideways. It's by far the coldest I can remember getting on a bike in over > half a century of cycling. > > Nick Payne > -- 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/bd5775d9-9eb2-4a25-9bd6-466f35d433e5n%40googlegroups.com.
