I don't think I've ever had that response, but last weekend supplied a pair of interesting comments on the Mariposa.
I did a century out of Newburg, WI and on the first leg a much stronger rider on a rather pretty piece of plastic commented on how nice my bike looked as he went by me. I caught up with him at a rest stop and got a chance to look at his bike a bit more - the N logo was very discrete and I'm still trying to remember what brand he said it was (I don't think it was spelled out anywhere on the bike.) At a later stop an older guy who had been chasing me for a while commented that I was getting along pretty good on that old bike. He was riding what looked to be an early 90's Trek - probably close to ten years older than my bike :) Fun ride and I never noticed the weight of my bike (unlike the weight of my person.) Mostly the stronger riders on organized rides seem to like the look of my bike even if they think of it as a bit of an anachronism. -Ken On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 11:43 AM, RJM <crccpadu...@gmail.com> wrote: > I agree with you and it is an attitude that becomes very apparent when you > show up to a group road ride on a steel framed/racked and bagged/fat tired > bike. "You think you are riding with us on that??" > > > On Thursday, June 28, 2012 11:33:26 AM UTC-5, James Warren wrote: >> >> >> Right. This illustrates my point. The reviewer of the article seems to >> visualize cycling as this great multi-faceted thing, but the subset of it >> called "road-riding" is not allowed to have a 31-pound bike. That's where I >> disagree. Doug's fully satisfying ride (described below) should be called a >> "road ride." >> >> The reviewer doesn't say, "for me, road-riding performance means lighter >> weight..." He says, "the notion of a 31-pound 'performance' road bike is >> ridiculous." Given his position as reviewer, that assertion is presumptuous, >> trying to tell me, the reader, what road bike performance really means. He >> even says that it is worthy of ridicule to attempt to define road-riding >> differently with an over-30-pound bike. I'm guessing that this presumption >> and the commonality of it is at least part of what lead to "Just Ride." >> >> -Jim W. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/bV0gMI1jNcIJ. > > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
