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Re: [RBW] Re: Just Ride: wee dram optional

2020-02-17 Thread Patrick Moore

https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2011/jun/13/poem-week-g-k-chesterton

On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 12:02 AM Philip Williamson <
philip.william...@gmail.com> wrote:

> “Bannockburn by way of Brighton Beach” is dead funny, and euphonious. And
> dark, considering Bannockburn’s place in history, which sets up the last
> verse pretty well.
>
> The rest of it I’ll have to google.
>
> Philip
> Santa Rosa, CA
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Re: [RBW] Re: Just Ride: wee dram optional

2020-02-16 Thread Philip Williamson

“Bannockburn by way of Brighton Beach” is dead funny, and euphonious. And dark, 
considering Bannockburn’s place in history, which sets up the last verse pretty 
well. 

The rest of it I’ll have to google.

Philip
Santa Rosa, CA 

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Re: [RBW] Re: Just Ride: wee dram optional

2020-02-16 Thread Patrick Moore

One of your best stories yet. I'm sorry you have no photos.

To celebrate the anecdote, here is a poem first publishe din 1913 under the
title "A Song Of Temperance Reform."

The Rolling English Road
By G. K. Chesterton 
Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode,
The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.
A reeling road, a rolling road, that rambles round the shire,
And after him the parson ran, the sexton and the squire;
A merry road, a mazy road, and such as we did tread
The night we went to Birmingham by way of Beachy Head.

I knew no harm of Bonaparte and plenty of the Squire,
And for to fight the Frenchman I did not much desire;
But I did bash their baggonets because they came arrayed
To straighten out the crooked road an English drunkard made,
Where you and I went down the lane with ale-mugs in our hands,
The night we went to Glastonbury by way of Goodwin Sands.

His sins they were forgiven him; or why do flowers run
Behind him; and the hedges all strengthening in the sun?
The wild thing went from left to right and knew not which was which,
But the wild rose was above him when they found him in the ditch.
God pardon us, nor harden us; we did not see so clear
The night we went to Bannockburn by way of Brighton Pier.

My friends, we will not go again or ape an ancient rage,
Or stretch the folly of our youth to be the shame of age,
But walk with clearer eyes and ears this path that wandereth,
And see undrugged in evening light the decent inn of death;
For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen,
Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

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> In 2000, me wifie and cousin and I did a hired bike tour of the best
> whisky in the world. Three miles, three distilleries. Grin. The winding
> costal road got straighter with each stop. Grin. Then we discovered that
> our bnb was the other side of the island instead of just three miles on.
> Whooof.  My bike had no tools, but the handlebars came loose in the
> headset. Bashed it back into place with a bit borrowed from one of those
> drystone walls you can see there. Jacobs sheep laughing at me through the
> whisky mist. The roads that go inland are straight, which seems mighty
> curvy after three distilleries of tasting. Grin. Scotland redefines
> headwinds. Islay redefines them yet again. Ain't nuffin' slowing them down
> from gaining speed across the Atlantic. Then they hit me and I slowed down.
> A lot. Grin.
>
> With abandon,
> Patrick
>
> On Sunday, February 16, 2020 at 10:03:29 AM UTC-7, David Carner wrote:
>>
>>
>> https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2017/aug/17/hardcore-cycling-in-almost-guaranteed-rain-scotlands-no-frills-anti-sportive
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[RBW] Re: Just Ride: wee dram optional

2020-02-16 Thread 'Deacon Patrick' via RBW Owners Bunch

In 2000, me wifie and cousin and I did a hired bike tour of the best whisky 
in the world. Three miles, three distilleries. Grin. The winding costal 
road got straighter with each stop. Grin. Then we discovered that our bnb 
was the other side of the island instead of just three miles on. 
Whooof.  My bike had no tools, but the handlebars came loose in the 
headset. Bashed it back into place with a bit borrowed from one of those 
drystone walls you can see there. Jacobs sheep laughing at me through the 
whisky mist. The roads that go inland are straight, which seems mighty 
curvy after three distilleries of tasting. Grin. Scotland redefines 
headwinds. Islay redefines them yet again. Ain't nuffin' slowing them down 
from gaining speed across the Atlantic. Then they hit me and I slowed down. 
A lot. Grin.

With abandon,
Patrick

On Sunday, February 16, 2020 at 10:03:29 AM UTC-7, David Carner wrote:
>
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2017/aug/17/hardcore-cycling-in-almost-guaranteed-rain-scotlands-no-frills-anti-sportive
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Re: [RBW] Re: Just ride!

2016-11-29 Thread lum gim fong

Masala Chai and a Samosa🚴🏻

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Re: [RBW] Re: Just ride!

2016-11-28 Thread Ryan Fleming

I hear you about accidents in traffic

I've never enjoyed riding in heavy traffic at the best of times ...but next 
spring (since I don't ride in winter...prefer walking) I'm going to be even 
more attentive...not that I wasn't when I had my accident

On Saturday, November 26, 2016 at 12:22:58 PM UTC-6, RJM wrote:
>
> MTB single track and some double. Not terribly technical, but steep climbs 
> are the norm.  I've started doing a bunch of gravel riding too and have 
> been shying away from riding in traffic. Too many incidents and a few 
> deaths have me rethinking it.

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Re: [RBW] Re: Just ride!

2016-11-26 Thread RJM

MTB single track and some double. Not terribly technical, but steep climbs are 
the norm.  I've started doing a bunch of gravel riding too and have been shying 
away from riding in traffic. Too many incidents and a few deaths have me 
rethinking it.

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Re: [RBW] Re: Just ride!

2016-11-25 Thread Patrick Moore

My experience exactly. For a while, I tried watching TV shows, but already
crappy shows just got crappier, and so much slower that they were painful
to watch. That said, I have to acknowledge the others who do tolerate and
even thrive on indoor training. If it works, good for you. If I lived in a
place where circumstances made riding unpleasant, I'd probably choose --
reluctantly -- an indoor trainer over, say, going to the gymn and killing
brain cells on a treadmill or stair stepper. That would be hell, and
inconvenient hell because you'd doubtless drive to your place of punishment.

On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 3:59 AM, Michael Hechmer  wrote:

> I use to own an indoor trainer.  I called it my time machine.  I would
> ride it for an hour, look at my watch and discover that only 5 minutes had
> gone bye.
>
> Fresh air, daylight & exercise are all critical for good health -
> physical, mental and spiritual.
>
> Michael
>
>
> On Tuesday, November 22, 2016 at 6:31:07 PM UTC-5, Patrick Moore wrote:
>>
>> https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/16/zwift-a-multiplayer-game-
>> thats-making-indoor-athletics-more-social-just-raised-27-million/
>>
>> Courtesy of you-know-who.
>>
>> Let's change that. Let's call it, "Why ride?"
>>
>> Patrick Moore, who Just Rode this afternoon despite wind and gray skies,
>> and turned a 8 mile rt PO trip into a hilly 17.6 mile Just Ride fixed gear
>> ride.
>>
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>> 
>> *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a
>> circumference on the contours of which all conditions, distinctions, and
>> individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu
>>
>> *Stat crux dum volvitur orbis.* *(The cross stands motionless while the
>> world revolves.) *Carthusian motto
>>
>> *It is *we *who change; *He* remains the same.* Eckhart
>>
>> *Kinei hos eromenon.* (*It moves [all things] as the beloved.) *Aristotle
>>
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Re: [RBW] Re: Just ride!

2016-11-25 Thread Ryan Fleming

I take it  RJM means MTB single and double track

On Friday, November 25, 2016 at 12:15:26 PM UTC-6, Steve Palincsar wrote:
>
> When you say "trail riding" are you referring to riding paved bike 
> trails, or to MTB single or double track? 
>
>
> On 11/25/2016 01:07 PM, RJM wrote: 
> > I spend a decent amount of time on the trainer throughout the year and 
> > actually like following workouts using it, which has helped me greatly 
> > now that I've been doing a bit of cyclocross racing. Which, IMHO, is 
> > the best type of racing and even great for those of us who aren't 
> > competitive and just want to ride our own rides. Huge fun...Uuuge 
> > fun...and not so serious-like. 
> > 
> > When I ride outside on the road I generally am either with a group 
> > or on a charity ride and doing whatever everybody else is doing or 
> > I'm riding the trails at whatever intensity level I feel like, which 
> > is usually pretty slow and leisurely. I vastly prefer trail riding 
> > nowadays. The trainer makes it very easy to knock out effective 
> > workouts to up my fitness which makes trail riding way less 
> > ridiculously exhausting and much more pleasurable. I've never been 
> > much of a gym person, but I can bust out an hour or two on the trainer 
> > at home no problem if I didn't get a chance to ride outside for a 
> > while. Works for me. 
> > 
> > Spin classes are no joke and will get you fitter pretty quick. 
> > 
>
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Re: [RBW] Re: Just ride!

2016-11-25 Thread Steve Palincsar

When you say "trail riding" are you referring to riding paved bike 
trails, or to MTB single or double track?



On 11/25/2016 01:07 PM, RJM wrote:
I spend a decent amount of time on the trainer throughout the year and 
actually like following workouts using it, which has helped me greatly 
now that I've been doing a bit of cyclocross racing. Which, IMHO, is 
the best type of racing and even great for those of us who aren't 
competitive and just want to ride our own rides. Huge fun...Uuuge 
fun...and not so serious-like.


When I ride outside on the road I generally am either with a group 
or on a charity ride and doing whatever everybody else is doing or 
I'm riding the trails at whatever intensity level I feel like, which 
is usually pretty slow and leisurely. I vastly prefer trail riding 
nowadays. The trainer makes it very easy to knock out effective 
workouts to up my fitness which makes trail riding way less 
ridiculously exhausting and much more pleasurable. I've never been 
much of a gym person, but I can bust out an hour or two on the trainer 
at home no problem if I didn't get a chance to ride outside for a 
while. Works for me.


Spin classes are no joke and will get you fitter pretty quick.



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[RBW] Re: Just ride!

2016-11-25 Thread RJM

I spend a decent amount of time on the trainer throughout the year and 
actually like following workouts using it, which has helped me greatly now 
that I've been doing a bit of cyclocross racing. Which, IMHO, is the best 
type of racing and even great for those of us who aren't competitive and 
just want to ride our own rides. Huge fun...Uuuge fun...and not so 
serious-like.

When I ride outside on the road I generally am either with a group or on a 
charity ride and doing whatever everybody else is doing or I'm riding the 
trails at whatever intensity level I feel like, which is usually pretty 
slow and leisurely. I vastly prefer trail riding nowadays. The trainer 
makes it very easy to knock out effective workouts to up my fitness which 
makes trail riding way less ridiculously exhausting and much more 
pleasurable. I've never been much of a gym person, but I can bust out an 
hour or two on the trainer at home no problem if I didn't get a chance to 
ride outside for a while. Works for me. 

Spin classes are no joke and will get you fitter pretty quick. 




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[RBW] Re: Just ride!

2016-11-24 Thread 'Tim' via RBW Owners Bunch

Ok, I have to admit, I've spent many, many hours on an indoor bike. Last year 
while simultaneously recovering from rotator cuff surgery and training for PBP, 
I had to do a 10 hour indoor ride. It was awful. But I didn't begin my adult 
cycling life until 2001, when I was 40. At the same time as beginning to cycle, 
since I was a guy that was in the gym daily, I got certified to teach Spinning 
classes. As an instructor, you learn to teach people to cycle the "right" way, 
meaning not going at a 120+ rpm, to not go all out every time you take a class, 
to recover properly, etc. But many people don't listen. I've found that 
generally, most people who regularly go to the gym work out too hard. And 
people who take spin classes are some of the worst offenders. And many 
instructors use the class to show off how "badass" they are, thereby working 
people to death every single class. For the past few years I cycle indoors only 
as a last resort but it has its merits. Anything that gets people moving is ok 
by me.

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It's been many years since I was last at a spin class, but they had a
very mixed programme including sprints at a very high RPM, "hill
climbing" with very high resistance, a lot of out-of-the-saddle work and
one-legged drills. It was a very intense workout, and many of the
skills transferred to the road, as did the enhanced level of aerobic
fitness.

On 11/24/2016 09:20 AM, George Schick wrote:
Speaking of indoor cycling, has anyone ever run into one of these
people who go for these "spinning" classes? IOW, are they spinning at
outrageous RPM's with very low "gears" (resistance) so that when the
get out on the road on an actual bike, into stiff headwinds and
variable climatic conditions the bottom falls out of their
performance? Or are they over the top when they transfer to the
outdoors so they can knock your socks off? Just curious.

On Tuesday, November 22, 2016 at 5:31:07 PM UTC-6, Patrick Moore wrote:

https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/16/zwift-a-multiplayer-game-thats-making-indoor-athletics-more-social-just-raised-27-million/

Courtesy of you-know-who.

Let's change that. Let's call it, "Why ride?"

Patrick Moore, who Just Rode this afternoon despite wind and gray
skies, and turned a 8 mile rt PO trip into a hilly 17.6 mile Just
Ride fixed gear ride.

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