Elusive Fabrizio

In article <[email hidden]>,

Claire Petersky said:

Dear friends:

I just got back from RSVP 2004, and I have a trip report in progress. Keep
an eye on rec.bicycles.rides, where I'll end up posting it maybe Tuesday or
so.

But I just had to mention that as a part of the ride, we went out along the
flat agricultural land between Maple Ridge and Port Moody.

Oooh, kewl! How'd ya [dis]like the Pitt River bridge? I'm assuming
you did the Lougheed Hwy (#7); although the Dewdney Trunk/Barnett Hwy
traverses the same area a little to the north.

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My husband and I
were whipping along the roads there, when it hit me, this is the natural
training ground of the famous, if elusive, Fabrizio Mazzoleni. Surely he
would be back home by now.

Alas, he allegedly abides on the other side of the river, and further
east, in Abbotsford. I think his local rides would more likely take
him through Abbotsford, Chilliwack and Hope, along the Trans-Canada
(#1) Hwy. Maybe into Agassiz, Lake Erroch, or Seabird Island.

But I bet Fabs can score some pretty good home-brewed porchclimber
out there.

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So, I began to look for him.

The more people look for him, the more elusive he becomes.

You did get right up into Ryan's bailiwick.

cheers,
Tom

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"Claire Petersky" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:jaARc.13911>

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But I just had to mention that as a part of the ride, we went out along the
flat agricultural land between Maple Ridge and Port Moody. My husband and I
were whipping along the roads there, when it hit me, this is the natural
training ground of the famous, if elusive, Fabrizio Mazzoleni. Surely he
would be back home by now.

Hi Claire, I was out there Saturday, I was heading east through Pitt Meadows
when you people were heading west through there. It was just about noon
or just after, I noticed the number tags on the riders where in the 500 and
above range. Way too many damn bent riders, one even had a windshield!
And I don't really like those tandems out there, and touring bikes, hybrids,
etc.

I was out in my retro gear = wool/acrylic La Redoute-Motobecane jersey and
acrylic 'team Zeus' shorts by Vestisport, retro Santini team Italia cap with an old
Cinelli hair net helmet, black Detto Pietro lace up cycling shoes and white socks,
crochet leather palmed De Marchi gloves, and big round gold rimed Bolero
Sunglasses just like Fausto Coppi wore in the 1949 Giro.

Nothing personal, but, when I'm out there like that on my Campy Nuovo Record
equipped steel Columbus SL bike I try to pretend all you spandex wearing people
riding those new friction shifting, plastic / aluminium bikes aren't really there.

And everyone on your ride seemed to have a block of Styrofoam strapped to their
heads!

I noticed you were all turning right off the Lougheed highway in Port Coquitlam
near the Costco store and heading north, what was going on there?

Anyway, I'm looking forward to hearing how the event went.

"Tom Keats" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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Oooh, kewl! How'd ya [dis]like the Pitt River bridge? I'm assuming
you did the Lougheed Hwy (#7); although the Dewdney Trunk/Barnett Hwy
traverses the same area a little to the north.

Tom, on highway bridges like the Pitt and Mission, always ride out in the
right hand car lane, never take the protected walk/bike part of the bridge.

You'll end up riding over either a bunch of glass or some damn slow
recreational rider who won't get out of your way if you take to the bike
way on those bridges.

Fabrizio Mazzoleni said:

Nothing personal, but, when I'm out there like that on my Campy Nuovo Record
equipped steel Columbus SL bike I try to pretend all you spandex wearing people
riding those new friction shifting, plastic / aluminium bikes aren't really there.

Say it ain't so, Fab.

-Luigi

Mon, 09 Aug 2004 01:10:39 GMT,
<[email hidden]>,

Claire Petersky said:

So, I began to look for him.

He's not been in any of the races where I've been cheering for him.

What kinda hero is that?
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He's not been in any of the races where I've been cheering for him.

What kinda hero is that?
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"Tom Keats" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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In article <[email hidden]>,

Claire Petersky said:

But I just had to mention that as a part of the ride, we went out along

the

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Quoted message said:

flat agricultural land between Maple Ridge and Port Moody.

Oooh, kewl! How'd ya [dis]like the Pitt River bridge? I'm assuming
you did the Lougheed Hwy (#7); although the Dewdney Trunk/Barnett Hwy
traverses the same area a little to the north.

We did a little of the Lougheed Hwy, which I found distasteful. Big
shoulder, but lots of [censored] in it, and zillions of cars. Then some roaming
around Maple Ridge, and then took the Dewdney Trunk Road for a while, then
rejoined the 7. We also did this cool little footbridge in PoCo, but there
were lots of peds, and bikes coming the other way, so we had to take it nice
and slow and yell out all the time. We didn't get on to the Barnett Hwy
until after the rest stop at Rocky Point Park in Port Moody. There was a
[censored] of a climb, especially since this was mile 62 (after doing 108 the
previous day). I can see how some years, when it's actually hot in August,
where doing that stretch of road could be a killer.

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"Fabrizio Mazzoleni" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Hi Claire, I was out there Saturday, I was heading east through Pitt

Meadows

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when you people were heading west through there. It was just about noon
or just after, I noticed the number tags on the riders where in the 500

and

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above range.

I was 565, my husband 566. They sold out this year with over 1000 riders.

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Way too many damn bent riders, one even had a windshield!

You see the lady with the fabric screen? It was just like a head sticking
out of a big purple lozenge-shaped box.

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Nothing personal, but, when I'm out there like that on my Campy Nuovo

Record

Quoted message said:

equipped steel Columbus SL bike I try to pretend all you spandex wearing

people

Quoted message said:

riding those new friction shifting, plastic / aluminium bikes aren't

really there.

And I guess you pretended so well we did not see you either.

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I noticed you were all turning right off the Lougheed highway in Port

Coquitlam

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near the Costco store and heading north, what was going on there?

It was around that point, along the 7, that I realized that the US does not
have the monopoly on ugly suburban sprawl. Yeah, we turned on 228th and did
this thing on Abernathy Way to get to Dewdney Trunk Road (see previous
post).

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Anyway, I'm looking forward to hearing how the event went.

I am honored. I'll try to get the pictures developed, and get the ride
report written and up in a few days.

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In article <[email hidden]>,

(Tom Keats) said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Claire Petersky said:

Dear friends:

I just got back from RSVP 2004, and I have a trip report in progress. Keep
an eye on rec.bicycles.rides, where I'll end up posting it maybe Tuesday or
so.

But I just had to mention that as a part of the ride, we went out along the
flat agricultural land between Maple Ridge and Port Moody.

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You did get right up into Ryan's bailiwick.

Yeah. Like a block from my house.

And I forgot!

You know what I spent most of the weekend doing? Hint: I didn't turn a
wheel all weekend. I spent most of the time making crab apple jelly.

And spilling crab apple jelly all over the kitchen, and burning crab
apple jelly under the stove element, and making a mess with wax for
sealing the crab apple jelly, and so forth.

You know what the bad part is? I still have a half-gallon of crab apple
juice left. I see a wine project coming.

You know what the worst part is? Fr. Joseph's tree, generous provider of
all the crab apples I have used so far, is still groaning with gallons
of crab apples. Far more than I could ever make into jam. Next year, I
see a fund raiser coming.

Everybody gets crab apple jelly for Christmas this year.

And Fr. Joseph just asked me to pick the pears, too,
--
Ryan Cousineau, [email hidden] http://www.wiredcola.com
Verus de parvis; verus de magnis.

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Ryan Cousineau said:

You know what the bad part is? I still have a half-gallon of crab apple
juice left. I see a wine project coming.

I used to have this old Popular Science or Popular Mechanics
from the 50s, w/ plans for a cider press. It involved
wringers from an old style washing machine to pulpify the
intake, and a bumper jack to mash the beJesus out of it.
Gawd, how I wish I had that mag and those plans right now.

cheers,
Tom

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On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 23:42:07 -0700, [email hidden] (Tom Keats)

Quoted message said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Ryan Cousineau said:

You know what the bad part is? I still have a half-gallon of crab apple
juice left. I see a wine project coming.

I used to have this old Popular Science or Popular Mechanics
from the 50s, w/ plans for a cider press. It involved
wringers from an old style washing machine to pulpify the
intake, and a bumper jack to mash the beJesus out of it.
Gawd, how I wish I had that mag and those plans right now.

Popular Mechanics is too busy talking about Homeland Security these
days to talk about building stuff.

-Luigi

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cheers,
Tom

"Ryan Cousineau" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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You know what I spent most of the weekend doing? Hint: I didn't turn a
wheel all weekend. I spent most of the time making crab apple jelly.

And spilling crab apple jelly all over the kitchen, and burning crab
apple jelly under the stove element, and making a mess with wax for
sealing the crab apple jelly, and so forth.

Ryan, you obviously don't know a thing about making jam and jelly. One of
the most important rules is to make it the hottest day of the summer. That
way, you are melting wax and standing over a huge vat of boiling fruit in
your un-air conditioned house when it's 95 degrees. Saturday, the weather
was actually pleasant.

Personally, I never do the melting wax thing. Do you know about the inverted
jar sealing technique?

I wrote a long post one time about how to make jam and jelly with small
children. You don't have any yet, right? but you may in the future, so you
might find it helpful at some point. You may view it here:
http://tinyurl.com/3u58q. I wasn't cycling during that period of my life.
I'd drop the little ones off at the YMCA child care and do an hour of
aerobics with the other women who seemed to have spare time at 9:30 every
morning.

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You know what the worst part is? Fr. Joseph's tree, generous provider of
all the crab apples I have used so far, is still groaning with gallons
of crab apples. Far more than I could ever make into jam. Next year, I
see a fund raiser coming.

This is how the Christian Bros. winery probably got started.

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"Ryan Cousineau" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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In article <[email hidden]>,

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You know what the bad part is? I still have a half-gallon of crab apple
juice left. I see a wine project coming.

Please don't use apple juice and wine in the same sentence. Wine is made
from grapes and in the Napa valley. 8-)

Dave

"Claire Petersky" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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I wrote a long post one time about how to make jam and jelly with
small children.

Sounds cool. We have a surfeit of the little beggars around our
neighbourhood and making jam out of them might just be the answer.

Mike Latondresse said:

Claire Petersky said:

I wrote a long post one time about how to make jam and jelly with
small children.

Sounds cool. We have a surfeit of the little beggars around our
neighbourhood and making jam out of them might just be the answer.

I prefer the jelly; I get a little squeamish about the lumps in the jam.

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over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
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Raoul Duke said:

"Ryan Cousineau" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Quoted message said:

You know what the bad part is? I still have a half-gallon of crab apple
juice left. I see a wine project coming.

Please don't use apple juice and wine in the same sentence. Wine is made
from grapes and in the Napa valley. 8-)

Then crabapple cider. H'mmmm.

Just the thing to have on hand post-ride when the weather turns cold.
Mulled crabapple cider.

-Luigi

"Raoul Duke" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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Please don't use apple juice and wine in the same sentence. Wine is made
from grapes and in the Napa valley. 8-)

Sorry, but real wine comes from the Veneto and Piedmont regions, or the
Chianti area of Tuscany.

"Fabrizio Mazzoleni" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Sorry, but real wine comes from the Veneto and Piedmont regions, or the
Chianti area of Tuscany.

While Italian wine may be acceptable to cook with, if you plan on actually
drinking it, it should come from California.

Dave

Mon, 9 Aug 2004 14:25:22 -0700, <[email hidden]>,

Raoul Duke said:

"Fabrizio Mazzoleni" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Sorry, but real wine comes from the Veneto and Piedmont regions, or the
Chianti area of Tuscany.

While Italian wine may be acceptable to cook with, if you plan on actually
drinking it, it should come from California.

If you drink white wine you should stay in California.
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