theres a kid in my neighborhood who rides around on a beater marushi steel bike thats too big for him and as aro bars. I knew his brother in highschool hes an oh k kid. I rode up to the local highschool today to do relay for life(do laps around the track at a dollar a lap for cancer i did 100 laps BTW HAH). Well i was kinda drawing attention since i was the only person there on a bike(chicks dig spandex). Lots of people were asking me questions, funniest of which was "do you know lance armstrong?" when this guy comes walking up ad says, hey man u wanna race? He was totally friendly about it so we agreed to do a sprint for 4 laps(1 mile). They cleared the track and we took off, i was suprised to find that he sprinted ahead of me about 10 bike lengths right off the bat(hes in jeans and a -shirt on a junyard bike) so i decided to take it bit more seriously. We kept the pace pretty fast and i drafted him till the beginning of the 3rd lap and went around. Starting sprinting at the beginning of the last turn and he was on a little bit slower than i was.


Point being, i was pushing hard and a fred almost kept up( i wouldnt say i dropped him). I think ive found my knave.

I had no idea they allowed bikes on Relay for Life events... Also, what bike do you have?

Usually they dont, but i used the LA spin

To make it fair, you should have switched bikes and done the race again.

Might have been a humbling experience.

Bob

Well at least the other guy actually asked for, and knew he was in a race

Or not, it's usually a lot more about the motor than the bike.

Az

That was my point about switching bikes. He says he was "pushing hard and a Fred almost kept up"....a "Fred" on a junkyard bike....a "Fred" in jeans and a T-shirt....a "Fred" that he had to draft behind for 1/2 the "race".

I think this "Fred's" motor might have been the better one if not for the equipment factor.

Bob

yeah, his motor was better(bu then ive only been riding a little over a month and a half) Ive seen him riding around since i was in 8th grade.

srry, felt f70 the yellow one.

That would be fun as hell...do the relay for life with another couple people on bikes...if they would allow it.. The one near here has so many people though, I would think there would be collisions...

Yeah, we got there early before a ton of people had showed up, ad i live in a really small town so they bent the rules a bit.

The other day I was doing my daily run when I came across an overweight kid on a cheaper mountain bike. As I passed him he asked, "Wanna race?" I replied, "Ok! Go!" I didn't have a chance against someone on a bike going downhill but figured it'd be a good way to get a sprint in. Well, I took off and all I could hear was the kid's chain slipping as he tried to down shift. I ran about 20 yard and before he could catch up I yelled, "I won!" The kid was sooo pissed and screamed, "*****! I didn't say go!" I kept yelling that I won as I ran down the street.

Moral of the story? Sometimes the equipment does matter!

Now I just gotta find that kid while I'm on my bike.