i'm one of the lucky ones out west i think, but i gotta say it was pure suffering making it across the valley between the cascades and the ocean range in oregon. soooo hot, and even then just 95 degrees or so. i put my head down and got through there in one day rather than stick around for multiple days of that sickly too-hot feeling. i was wearing wool leggings because i had gotten sunburned when i feel asleep on the rim of crater lake the day before and wanted to cover up, one suffering for another!
e On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Peter Morgano <uscpeter11...@gmail.com>wrote: > Agreed, shame it is an Ozone alert and pea soup humidity in NYC which made > riding tonight crappy, wasnt worth taking pics since they would have been > hazed over anyway. I remembered Grant's advice to not beat yourself up > about not riding as much as you might want and headed home halfway through > to sit inside and not sweat everywhere, haha. Here is hoping for some rain > to break this humidity! > > > On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 1:28 AM, erik jensen <bicyclen...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> this thread started before i left to ride my atlantis across the cascades >> and elsewhere, and i return to see it continues. that's funny! >> >> anyone who has read this list always knows that there are always going to >> be people who pop in to troll or otherwise; posts of the sort "look at me, >> i like ALL bikes why don't you you ignoramus." >> >> But it doesn't really work that way, this is a place where people who >> want to talk about lugged bikes will. Like every place on the internet, >> people will always want to come in and yell about how that place doesn't >> really get it, as we may be tempted to otherwise. I subscribe, as there are >> also some really good ride reports that come up, but I bit my keyboarding >> tongue a lot about a whole variety of things. I think people like to make >> up stories about so and so having ideology x, y or z, because it's just >> easier that way. It happens on this list, it happens to all sorts of people >> with any sort of recognition, it's terribly easy and terribly >> boring--human, all too human, right? >> >> I really wish the biggest problem worth discussion was that us mean >> rivendell list members were dissuading significant portions of the public >> from riding bicycles made of carbon fiber, but I bet you can count the >> number of times that happens every year without trying too hard. That said, >> the rhetoric is really bias the other way. This isn't a debate between two >> equal sides in other words, and so don't construe peoples energy and love >> of a niche group to be conflated with koolaid or ideology as much as it is >> with embracing and pursuing an approach they probably have very little of >> in the place they live. I lived in Omaha, NE, for some time--how many >> rivendells are there? I know of 2, maybe? >> >> I recommend anyone engaged by a two week long argument on the internet >> step outside and remember we live on a fragile rock hurtling through the >> enormity of an infinite cosmos. >> >> It's not what you have or say, but it's what you do. >> >> What have all the posters in this thread been doing? I'd much rather hear >> about that. >> >> Ride on, >> >> erik >> >> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Scott Henry <ske...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I have no problems talking about Rivs, I do it routinely. >>> I have a problem talking bad about carbon because someone told you not >>> to like it. >>> >>> A bike is a bike. Ride them all. Don't talk anyone out of riding >>> anything. >>> >>> And personally, I like obnoxious women. >>> Scott >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Kelly <tkslee...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Not sure where you got slow comfort bikes from. >>>> >>>> As for talking about rivs.. It is the Rivendell group ... So do you >>>> complain on the Ford group that they don't like Chevys. Probably.. :) >>>> >>>> Actually I have many bikes in the garage... Steel aluminum, and carbon. >>>> >>>> I've had two carbon frames break, one carbon fork, two carbon stems, >>>> one seat post break. >>>> >>>> Haven't broke the others yet >>>> >>>> I am not afraid to ride carbon , just not fond of the way it fails. >>>> >>>> I'm an obnoxious opinionated jerk.. 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