Modern Tech
 

All,

Saturday is Farmer’s Market day. I rode my town bike down a bit early and found the vendors were still setting up for business. Rather than stand around waiting I set off to get a few miles in and enjoy the morning breeze.

Heading back to the market I was rolling along musing on the relative merits of preparing chives for an Omelet des Herbes using a mezzaluna vs. a chef’s knife when I had the feeling that a cyclist was on my wheel. A glance back showed a rider sprawled praying mantis style on a time trialish bike just beyond my rear mudguard.

“That’s odd” I thought and expected a clean surging pass with a polite “On your left” at any moment. The moment dragged on and on some more as I proceeded to turn a moderate gear at a stately pace toward farm fresh eggs and Amish cheese. Perhaps he’s feeling ill or is just recovering from a desperate TT effort I wondered as a mile and then another gradually passed by with the drafting rider churning a giant gear in my wake.

Arriving at the stop sign at the Farmer’s Market the young fellow pulled up next to me and I just had to ask:

“Why didn’t you just pass grand-dad on the ancient three speed way back there?"
“I couldn’t turn my head far enough to see if there was a car coming up from behind.” he replied.

So much for Modern Technology.

-Bandera

Hah! Hadn't heard that one yet.

"Grandad" should have told the young whippersnapper to buy one of those old fashion little mirrors one clips on to their helmet......
But I guess he might think that would ruin his whole aero TT theme of his ride.....:rolleyes:

Ha! You should have your own blog. I'd read it.

Chef's knife! :thumb:

Phil,

That's always the correct answer unless peeling an apple or slicing bread.

Sunday brunch for six, it's my turn to host.

-Bandera

Yup, although even w/ a mirror he should still do a lookback before changing lanes.

First he had to pull his head from it's hiding place.
Riding anyone's wheel on the aero bars, especially a stranger's, is stupid.

There are maybe 1000-1200 riders in the world skilled, experienced, and practiced enough to do that regularly behind a cyclist they do not know or ride with on a very regular basis.

Most of them just got done with their big race....

We have a group here that does that on a regular basis.
They ride aero, wheel to wheel in a pace line.
They wreck all the time.

I don't understand what modern tech has to do with this story.

Robbie,

That did cross my mind as I held a manly and purposeful 12.5mph with my aero-shadow in tow.
Since I've had my rear wheel overlapped by a better class of folks in the past with no calamity on my part, keep a relaxed but firm touch on the controls and have a rear mudguard that exceeds the total strength of his nano-tech-aero-hydraulic-shift-electronic-brake wunder machine I was more mystified than threatened.

-Bandera

A 240mm Tojiro Gyuto is only possible with modern tech, the mezzaluna is obsolete.

-Bandera