On Sunday, June 13, 2021 at 9:39:21 AM UTC-7, wrote:
On Sunday, June 13, 2021 at 5:45:03 PM UTC+2, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 6/12/2021 6:09 PM, Tom Kunich wrote:
On Saturday, June 12, 2021 at 2:32:35 PM UTC-7, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 6/12/2021 12:56 PM, jbeattie wrote:
BTW, I don't like anything bigger than about 38mm because they're sails, and I'm not riding TTs.
That final phrase is the most important, IME. Why is a guy like Tom, in
his seventh decade, buying ever lighter, ever more aero equipment?

As he describes things, he's doing almost entirely solo rides. If he
finishes his ride three minutes earlier, he gets no prize. And if he is
faster than last year because he bought new aero wheels, he's not in
better shape.

Tome needs to stop trying to be the guy on the right
https://www.flickr.com/photos/wallbl...n/photostream/
and accept being the guy on the left.

Frank, when did I ever suggest to you how you should ride? What would enter your mind that it was your business to tell me how to ride?
Tom, if you don't want to discuss how you should ride, why do you post
here endlessly discussing your rides - how many miles, how many feet you
climbed, whether you felt faster or slower, whether you had enough
sleep, who passed you and who you passed, etc.?

Do you not notice that nobody else does that more than rarely?

Surely you don't do it because you think we're really curious!

So maybe it's a subconscious desire for good advice.

Here it is again: Act your age. Quit trying to buy youth and fitness.
Slow down, look around, appreciate the scenery.

"There is more to life than increasing its speed." - Mahatma Gandhi


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- Frank Krygowski
If I act my age I would be riding an E bike paying no attention and bother every faster rider half of the time.
No thanks. It was sunny 24 C and there were swarms of:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/yABdU24Z5puSZEE28.
You better be home before 13.00u (1.00 pm) on a day like today. More and more I appreciate rainy and or cold days when it is quiet on my routes.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/L2ZfaBmiUzu6RDiR8

There is NO PLACE on any of my rides where I don't have to be careful of auto traffic all of the moments of my ride. Though on a couple of descents I normally go faster than cars care to go on the poor pavement or dangerous side entries from homes where drivers don't even bother to look upon entering. It isn't unusual for me to have to dodge around the back of a car pulling out into the road without looking. At the moment I am stuck here because my older brother may require assistance and my younger brother is moving to Reno NV to get away from the immense crime in California. But when he passes on I will probably move to Klamath Falls, Oregon. It rains a LOT in Oregon but it also has a very large number of sunny days there as well. Between snow storms I suppose.