Ahhhhh! Life on the edge! A dodgy machine and dodgy terrain! And hearty fair at the end. Naught much better than to be in the Shire herself.
When we were in Scotland, on Islay, we hired bicycles to tour my three favorite distilleries (Ardbeg, Lagavulin, Laphroaig), each a mile apart from Port Ellen. Of course after each tour, you get a "wee dram", and of course I asked to sample their whisky that wasn't available in the US, so I ended up with 5-7 wee drams at each. Loose handlebars along the way and no tools found me hammering my bike into a dry stone wall and toppling part of it, then into the road as it wouldn't topple to gett the handlebars back in their place. The sheep looked at me even more quizically than usual. After enough drams, the curvy, hilly seaside road straightened and leveled out for our return trip. I love the bikes for taking us on that memorable ride, and they were the most frustrating bikes we've ever ridden. Grin. With abandon, Patrick On Saturday, March 9, 2013 2:17:52 PM UTC-7, Jay in Tel Aviv wrote: > > I have meetings in Galway later this week, so I flew over early to get > do some cycling in an area of County Clare called the Burren. Riv > content - Tolkien suppossedly got the idea for Lord of the Rings here. > The landscape is an impossibly beautiful combination of green and > rocky hills looking over the ocean, with cows horses and ancient ruins > everywhere you look. > Anyway, the bike I rented is a low end Dawes "touring bike" complete > with an Al frame and cheap brifters. It is is a bike and therefore > wonderful by definition, but I sure wish I had my Sam. I never knew > 30 km / hr descents count be so white knuckle, bone rattling, hang on > for dear life wishing the brakes didn't take so much effort to slow > the bike down. Granted this is on barely paved farm roads with grass > growing down the center line, but still. > > Pictures will follow when I figure out how to upload them somewhere > linkable. > > Meantime I am in a pub drinking Guiness and waiting for the session to > start. > > Cheers. > > Jayintlv in Doolin, Co. Clare > -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
