Originally Posted by
steelbikeguy
In the Club
What is cycling without belonging to a club? Roger looks back on the various racing clubs he belonged to as a youth.
Steve in Peoria
I myself raced 5 or 6 times, of course, citizen races.
Riding fast is very bad for the body and health, learned from my racing days, hahaha
>that I learned how to suffer on a bike – fixing my gaze on his whirring chain and mesmerizing myself into an almost out-of-body experience as we slogged up those killer slopes [I should point out that, for me, anything higher than a railway bridge has always seemed like a mountain].
I did it too!
And anything higher than a train bridge is still seemed like Alpe D'huez
.
(I haven't been there. A souvenir from a friend, who is mountain biker and raced Mega Avalanche,
down from Pic Blanc, 3330m, to Alpe D'huez
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He was working with SR SunTour in those days)
