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:> "Roger Zoul" <
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:>> zsilverball wrote:
:>> :: How in the world can you ride 12,000 miles a year. Are you
:>> :: stretching the truth a little. If not how do you have the time
:>> :: for this much riding? I'm actually curious.
:>>
:>> Being self-employed would certainly help. Being a fast rider helps
:>> too. Riding most days of the week would make it possible, too.
:>> Thing is, riding solo in a rural area would seem to make one a
:>> lonely person .
:>
:> I didn't move down here 'cuz I craved a crowd. I do own my own
:> business and have plenty of people in my life to deal with. I also
:> head to Anderson and Greenwood for twice-weekly club rides. But
:> I've never had any problem being alone with my own thoughts. I
:> cherish the solitude, and I usually get better training riding alone
:> than I do with most groups with whom I ride.
I'm a solo rider too.
:>
:> To be brutally honest about it, riding with some of the pricks and
:> primadonas I've met up in the Greenville area (The Sobe Masters team
:> guys jump to mind) has made me appreciate the pleasure of riding
:> alone. There was a time when the faster folks would work their way
:> to the front of a century ride and work together so everyone could
:> do the best time possible for the ride. A nice bond would form as
:> the group would work together and lasting friendships would be made.
:> But over the last few years, a group of masters racers from
:> Greenville has been coming to all the local events to practice their
:> team tactics on any group that gets going at the front. They
:> deliberately disrupt attempts to get a good group formed and they
:> launch solo attacks, etc. That's fine. They pay their money, they
:> have a right to ride the way they want to. But they've pulled some
:> really lousy stunts, too. Last year at one event, their tactics
:> didn't shake a few of us. At 65 miles we made our only rest stop
:> ... just long enough to fill our bottles.
I've been wondering lately how far folks could go without stopping to water
up, etc....I had no idea it was 65 miles, though. Wow.
These guys barged to the
:> front of the line, filled their bottles, then left in a sprint
:> before the rest of us could get filled up. It was just lousy and
:> immature. I got sick of all that kind of **** over the years.
:> Plus, these guys are real impressed with themselves that they can
:> pee from their bikes. It's the stupidest thing I've ever seen.
:> Sure, the pros do it ... sometimes. These guys do it to show off to
:> each other ... and when they're riding AT THE FRONT of a group. I
:> never saw it happen, but I was sure it would, that one of them would
:> go down with his ***** in his hands and some poor soul behind would
:> end up being the guy making a trip in an ambulance.
Amazing. I guess these guy really enjoy being amoung the fastest around...
:>
:> Anyway, the animals I encounter here in these parts seem more
:> civilized.
Yep.
