Clydesdales/Athenas (200+ lb / 91+ kg) - Darned skinny ***** kids!

I went for a ride with a good friend tonight. He's 26, I'm 41. He's about 165#, I'm almost 300#. This was the guy's third time on a bike in probably 7-8 years, maybe more. He comfortably cruises at about 17-18 miles an hour and shoots uphill like a mountain goat. All on the 16 year old 28 pound mountain bike that I sold him using tennis shoes, running shorts, and a highway workers reflective T-shirt. I'm able to stay with him on the flats, and even make him work some. But on even the little hills around here (highway overpasses are about it) he just leavers me in the dust. It is nice to be pushed though. We rode for only about 12 miles, but our average speed was at 15 MPH which is my best average this year, and that was on tired legs from my ride home from work yesterday. The kid could be a excellent rider if he keeps it up. I'm going to need to work my butt off to not embarrass myself.

Jerry

P.S. I forgot to mention that another friend of mine who is also a clyde, with 2 artificial hips, got bored today and went out for a 44 mile jaunt, and was then disappointed that he could get in touch with me to ride with us tonight also! My friends are maniacs!

He's good for you to ride with, then, Jerry. He'll challenge you and make you grow (and shrink, too. :p)

To paraphrase Carl Spackler -

"If he bothers you, I'll take care of him. What you've got to do is cut the hamstring on the back of his leg right at the bottom. He'll never [ride a bike] again, because his weight displacement goes back, all his weight is on his right foot, and he'll [ride] everything off to the right. He'll never come through on anything. He'll quit the [riding].":innocent:

Or you could take Tom's advice and pursue the positive angle and use the skinny ******** as motivation - your choice. :twitchy:

MM

To paraphrase Carl Spackler -

"If he bothers you, I'll take care of him. What you've got to do is cut the hamstring on the back of his leg right at the bottom. He'll never [ride a bike] again, because his weight displacement goes back, all his weight is on his right foot, and he'll [ride] everything off to the right. He'll never come through on anything. He'll quit the [riding].":innocent:

Or you could take Tom's advice and pursue the positive angle and use the skinny ******** as motivation - your choice. :twitchy:

MM

Thanks for the offer, but the kid's like the little brother that I never wanted...:roflmao2: I will use him as a rabbit. I had to explain to him the idea of drafting tonight, and that I wasn't trying to drive him off the road. He frefers to keep about 15 feet between me and him. I'll teach him right though. It really just sucks that he's that fast with no time on bike involved first.

i run in to this a lot riding with my boss. he is in his mid to late 40s 170-180 lbs. he has rode all his life and is in good shape. when he rides he makes it all look easy when he waits on me at the top of the hills and i look like a slobering hog trying to catch my breath. he keeps giving advice on how to build my stamina and leggs i keep threating to bring him a back pack with 100 pounds of weight so he could experiance my ride and if that doesnt work i can beat him with the back pack :)

i run in to this a lot riding with my boss. he is in his mid to late 40s 170-180 lbs. he has rode all his life and is in good shape. when he rides he makes it all look easy when he waits on me at the top of the hills and i look like a slobering hog trying to catch my breath. he keeps giving advice on how to build my stamina and leggs i keep threating to bring him a back pack with 100 pounds of weight so he could experiance my ride and if that doesnt work i can beat him with the back pack :)

I think that backpack idea is great! You should actually do it and make him refuse. Maybe 50-60 lbs. would be enough though. Really... I mean it's only the sporting thing to do after all. (By this, I do not mean that you should use the pack to assault him. :))

Just let some air out of his tires that will slow him down a touch! Also if there is time slightly tighten up the rear brake. LOL!!!

I bet we all have friends like these...

I share ride data off my Garmin with a friend using motion based, we both are climbers, well, i think i am, he really is. I sent him a link to a ride i did, 30 miles climing all the hills in Brea, Fullerton, Buena Park ca.... He sent back a link to him doing the Mullholland Challenge that same weekend, 100 miles, 10k climbing. his heart rate only exceeded 150 twice.

Yeah, I had a similar experience this weekend...buddy of mine had been talking about getting his dad's old bike fixed up and joining me for a ride...well he finally followed through on it...so here I am 220# of pure slow on my steel-framed hybrid with lowish-pressure commuter tires show up to ride with him...his 155# runners frame is sitting there on a feather-weight Carbon Trek rolling on 22mm tires...it was not a fun day. I shoulda let him continue to wear his helmet backwards as we showed up for the club ride.