PS: It will be much, much greener, with far, far less wind and dust, and probably much hotter too on this 2015 ride, whether we ride the same Paseo del Bosque path or some other route.
On Sun, Jul 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM Patrick Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > I don’t think he’ll mind me sharing this. He wants to participate in the > 2025 ride. > > https://flickr.com/photos/65167088@N00/sets/72157604133469712 > > That March 16 2008 ride was exceptionally windy and dusty even for > Albuquerque’s strong spring winds. We had Corrola-sized tumbleweed > aggregations barreling towards us at 30 mph as we rode South. In fact, one > participant bailed shortly after we got to the main No/So RG trail because > it was so windy. > > I think I had to fix 2 flats during our 30 or so mile ride; this back in > pre-sealant days. And I am surprised to see how low my bar was back when I > was a spritely, lissome 53-year-old. IIRC, bar was ~6 cm below saddle; > about 2012 I adjusted all my road bikes to ~3 cm below saddle but with > longer reach bars. > > I think that RBW listmember Eric Norris still has that Motobecane that I > sold to him what, 10 years ago? I put many miles on it before converting > the 2003 Riv Road custom gofast into a fixed gear commuter, itself replaced > in 2020 by Chauncey’s fixed/IGH clone. > > We had a group post-ride recovery meal at Taj Mahal that, in those days, > was at our Corrales shopping center starting point. I do think that a > post-ride group meal is very much called for for our 2025 ride. > -- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, letters, and other writing services ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *When thou didst not, savage, k**now thine own meaning,* *But wouldst gabble like a** thing most brutish,* *I endowed thy purposes w**ith words that made them known.* -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgvqgaKurjaEAW7p2Vfymnz5acZ72g%2BNXVFq15WY-m_Xxw%40mail.gmail.com.
