On Friday, August 9, 2013 9:36:18 AM UTC-5, davethedave wrote:
On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 07:30:29 -0700, cyclintom wrote:



The advent of Lance Armstrong caused a HUGE upsurge in interest in

riding bicycles in the US. As is showing now Lance was no more guilty of

cheating than every other top pro. And it's also showing that ALL sports

are guilty of the same thing. Though several university studies have

suggested that the professional bicyclists are tuned to such a fine edge

that performance enhancing drugs actually have the opposite effect. Tour

riders may believe in PED's and hence use them but they have little or

even bad effects. Which sort of makes sense. Remember that originally

they used alcohol to increase performance and now we know absolutely for

certain that it damages performance.



In any case, because of this uptick in the numbers of cyclists, many of

them are young and play-racers. If they aren't riding in very fast packs

they are "training" by riding over the local hills and passing me like

I'm standing still. Since they're usually more than 40 years younger

than me it doesn't bother me.



But I've been noticing that they've all been riding solid black bikes.



I don't know how many of you know that I had a fall and concussion that

knocked me out for two whole years. Finally my friend and brother got me

to the proper doctor who prescribed the proper medication at the proper

dosage and I'm me again. Though some may think that less than desirable.



So since I can't remember what's been going on I've been looking around

to discover what these really fast bikes are. High end Italian? French?

Even Japanese?



No - it turns out that they're Trek and Cannondale! Before I was knocked

out these were considered plain. But now they look to me to be as good

as the best in the world!



Any comments?



Black's a great colour.

--

davethedave

For a funeral.

:-)