Firsts and thoughts
09-08-08, 09:51 AM
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Suggesting there may be something wrong with a cyclist who walks up a hill only helps keep people away from riding and riders away from otherwise great routes.
09-08-08, 10:05 AM
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The curse of the implied smiley strikes again!
If you have read TWL posts in the past, you'd have recognized that he was only funnin' with you.
If you have read TWL posts in the past, you'd have recognized that he was only funnin' with you.
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There are two types of road bikers: bikers who are faster than me, and me. Bruce Cameron - Denver Post
"Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen." Louis L'Amour
There are two types of road bikers: bikers who are faster than me, and me. Bruce Cameron - Denver Post
09-08-08, 11:27 AM
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Anyone who knows me will tell you that my humility is rivaled only by my brutal good looks.
09-08-08, 12:08 PM
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One other thing since I'm baring my soul: I got passed twice by an older woman riding a hybrid. I could see her fluorescent green shirt (I think it was cotton) in my helmet mirror as she relentlessly reeled me in. The first time was bad enough. Then after a SAG I was crawling up one of the aforementioned hills telling myself "Stopping is for wussy" and dang if she didn't pass me again.
For someone who rides full carbon and fancies himself an up and coming recreational cyclist with racing potential, it was truly a humbling experience.
For someone who rides full carbon and fancies himself an up and coming recreational cyclist with racing potential, it was truly a humbling experience.
09-08-08, 12:39 PM
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There truly is no shame in walking up hills. I wouldn't be caught dead doing it, but there's no shame in it. 
