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Dirty Dozen 2018
On Saturday, December 1, 2018 at 8:49:43 PM UTC-5, Frank Krygowski wrote:
Snipped For me, it depends on the ride. If I'm just doing a normal recreational day ride, I'm fine with attacking a hill, i.e. going hard to get up it. But if I'm doing an unusually long ride or doing a multi-day ride, my priority is to make it easy on myself. I downshift at the first indication of increased effort. -- - Frank Krygowski I used to ride with a friend a lot before I moved away from that city. He used to downshift to his lowest gear at the start of every steep hill. I'd wait for him at the top. Hereabouts I often see bicyclists walking up a hill. When I ask them if they had a breakdown or flat they reply that the hill is too steep for them to ride. I look at their bicycle and 99% of the time the bike is in the highest gear or at least on the big chainring of a triple. I usually tell them how to use the gears simply = big ring for downhill and tailwinds, middle gear for the flats and the small ring for the hills. BTW, those riders are usually on BSOs. Cheers |
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Dirty Dozen 2018
On Sat, 01 Dec 2018 14:10:02 -0800, jbeattie wrote:
Wasn't Warm Showers part of the Steele Dossier? Totally OT, but I was riding across southern Illinois and stopped somewhere near Carbondale at a KOA or some camp-dump that was where we ran out of gas and figured we would stop. The next morning, we ride maybe two or three miles east, through a pleasant neighborhood and there is a Grant Wood-esque husband and wife running a mini-hostel/shower facility for cyclists. He was on the front lawn when we rode by and corralled us into stopping for a sweet roll -- or part of one. As I recall, it was the sort of fare you got in the parish hall after Sunday service. Nice cozy home where we could have stayed instead of some miserable urban camp site. Pre-internet, I can only wonder how they informed riders of their operation. They weren't in our used Bikecentennial tour book. As I vaguely remeber, "the warm showers" concept(name?) started about the time BikeCentennial under is original name spring up. It was a printed list that you could get a copy of by being on the list. We had a similar list in Australia that followed that model. The Australian version passed before the internet started due to the cost of printing and sending copies. |
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