JTN wrote:
> the morgul bismarck wall.....
"The Wall"
Morgul and Bismark were a local restaurant owner's cats. He named the 13 mile loop containing, The
Hump, The Wall, and the deceptively harder (longer) - Feed Hill (where the pace was slow enough to
grab a food bag), and somehow it stuck.
.... I loved that particular race. The judges hesitated before giving Alexi the win because they
didn't know if it was legal for him to stop short of the finish line, and carry his bike across (He
was all alone when he got there. The finish was at the top of The Wall.). We all also knew that the
judges did not like Alexi. (I remember when he flipped them the bird in the North Boulder crit when
they wouldn't slow the pace during a wreck in the rain.)
> not much of a wall really.
Ha! I beg to differ. Not many people would say that.
> you can carry a lot of speed from the downhill just before it and even stay in the big ring if
> your riding strong.
If you are riding REALLY, REALLY, REALLY strong. I'm lucky these days if I can stay in my MTB's
middle 38 without dropping to the granny. I was never able to ride it using my road bike's 52. I use
to ride it in my road bike's 42 chain ring, but that was 10 - 15 years ago - and I haven't ridden a
road bike in nearly as long.
I was pretty strong back in those days. Not so today.
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