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Pmailkeey
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Interesting subject, but the following is likely not what you think.
I suspect you all think you're pretty good cyclists (well, those of you have been cycling for
years). Last Sunday, there was 5 of us on a ride - Solihull to Brum along the towpath. Ages: 61,
38(me) 18,17 &
15. The 17 & 18 year olds are the weak ones, but are fairly wild on their mountain bikes. We've
ridden together for a couple of years, summer and winter, day and night. Likely the only
mountain bikes with dynamo lights in the area.
My Brompton had them from new. The youngsters have full susp MTBs and the old man's is a rigid-
framed almost MTB.
On the aforementioned towpath, there's a patch of mud. Nothing at all to get excited about, and the
Brompton coped with it quite well. But the really odd thing was that those with more appropriate
bikes got off and walked through the mud !
It made me realise how much more experience I have than them of dealing with anything more tricky
than a hard surface !
Anyway, I didn't want to get my shoes muddy !
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Comm again, Mike.
I suspect you all think you're pretty good cyclists (well, those of you have been cycling for
years). Last Sunday, there was 5 of us on a ride - Solihull to Brum along the towpath. Ages: 61,
38(me) 18,17 &
15. The 17 & 18 year olds are the weak ones, but are fairly wild on their mountain bikes. We've
ridden together for a couple of years, summer and winter, day and night. Likely the only
mountain bikes with dynamo lights in the area.
My Brompton had them from new. The youngsters have full susp MTBs and the old man's is a rigid-
framed almost MTB.
On the aforementioned towpath, there's a patch of mud. Nothing at all to get excited about, and the
Brompton coped with it quite well. But the really odd thing was that those with more appropriate
bikes got off and walked through the mud !
It made me realise how much more experience I have than them of dealing with anything more tricky
than a hard surface !
Anyway, I didn't want to get my shoes muddy !
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Comm again, Mike.