"OzCableguy" <
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> heh. Yeah, I guess it's no big deal what they think really, but sometimes
> I wonder what crosses their minds when a big fat bloke on a mountain bike
> whips by huffing and puffing for all I'm worth only to have them catch me
> up a bit further down the road once I've backed off again. Worse still is
> when they catch me up right when I'm about to do another sprint. It must
> scream "******".
>
Hehe - last night I called in at the Mountain Goat Brewery for the 10th
anniversary celebrations and ended up catching up with Bikesoiler over 5 or
so beers. I left there just before 7.30pm, negotiated past the security
guard on the door and the line of people waiting to get in (the place was
packed), and rode home on my singlespeed mtb along the Yarra Boulevard until
the Chandler Hwy and then on the Yarra Trail home from there. As I was
coming over the second last hill on the Boulie (just before crossing the
Fwy) I was overtaken by a young guy on a roadie out for a training ride (no
backpack). I let him go past, then just as I got to the bottom of the last
hill (just after the Fwy) another young guy went past me (also no backpack)
and he looked like he was putting in the big ones to smash past me up the
hill. I decided to crank it up a bit and so I stayed about 5m behind him
all the way up the hill - I made sure he knew I was there because he only
had a couple of white flashers and I had the 2 x 3W Cree LEDs on the bars
and another 2 x 3W Cree LEDs on my helmet and I made sure that I kept the
helmet light trained on his back the whole way up!!! He tried to get out of
the saddle a couple of times to drop me but I was able to stay with him (My
SS runs a 38 x 16 gear). He was clearly buggered by the top of the hill and
I was having a bit of a chuckle to myself - I then let the gravity turbo
kick in (steel bike + 102kg Gags + approx 8kg backpack + slicks pumped to 65
psi + hubs only repacked and adjusted last week) and I went past both of
them on the downhill without having to turn a pedal.
I guess you could say that was how not to overtake a "seasoned commuter" -
hehehehehe. You have to keep them young whippersnappers honest every now
and then.
Gags