Originally Posted by
Picchio Special
How sad. While to some extent I get your point, I couldn't disagree with your "dirty horses" comment more. Work horses are magnificent animals, and worthy of respect. Which around here, at least, they get. Maybe it's not the draft horses that are "stuck."
I'm not trying to pick a fight.
I was very specific about the horses to which I was referring;
Originally Posted by pastorbobnlnh
...the horses stuck in their pastures that I pass every day on the way to the church....
I'm speaking of Farmer Messer's horses (which are Belgiums, BTW). His horses are dirty. And yes, I do drive past them every day, sometimes more than once, so I know what
they look like.
But my point is that a cyclist is a cyclist regardless of their weight, their height, their physical condition, their speed, their mechanical ability, or the type of bicycle they ride. We don't need a special designation for cyclists, just because a person weighs more than 200 pounds.
We have a couple of regular C&V members who ride very small framed bicycles because they are under ___ inches tall. We don't call him/her a "Pony" (or substitute any descriptive word you choose), just because they stopped growing and are less than ___ inches tall.