I had an interesting conversation yesterday with a blind stoker who competes on road, track, and gravel, and is training for a Para Cycling Road National Championship — criterium, I think he said. Tandem criterium: that should be fun to watch!
Rather striking; he works at Fat Tire Cycles Corrales; Fat Tire is a local mini-chain (just opened a 3rd store) that is thriving *because they’re locally owned and serve real local customers,* unlike High Desert Bicycles, another thriving and very good local mini-chain that apparently has stagnated after it was bought by Trek or Specialized some years ago. He certainly manages to get by; he checked me in and out at the digital register quickly and smoothly. He did say that he can see shades of light and shapes. I recall about 12 or 15 years ago when word got around that I owned a Ken Rogers British racing tricycle, that an avid cyclist with a progressive neuro-muscular disease contacted me to ask if he could try it out. He had been riding a Greenfield tricycle but wanted to compete in some para-Olympics whose tricycle event allowed only “deltas,” as we tricycling cognoscenti call them (joke, dammit). I rode his Greenfield, and I have to say that I preferred the Ken Rogers. I didn’t follow up, but I wonder if he found and raced a BRT. Fun Fact: the KR had 2 brakes on the front tire, none on the rears: Weinmann cantilevers and an Altenberger early dual pivot on a metal stalk extending from the fork crown. -- 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/CALuTfgvLeoQCTYJ0UxjXt9p1PaK%2BO67BHN9jZtjoJVqx-VOCuw%40mail.gmail.com.
