Re: I did my first century today.

[Edward Dolan]

"NYC XYZ" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> [email protected] wrote:
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>> That Montauk century ride had up to a 20 mph tailwind.
>> (I know how strong it was, as I had to double back into the headwind
>> for a couple of miles to meet a group at Cecils for a BBC - frozen
>> baileys, banana and coconut).
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> Yeah, people kept saying stuff like that, but honestly, being on my
> ~38-lb. recumbent, I didn't notice! I remember feeling every damned
> half-angle of every little incline from Manhattan to Montauk, even
> though the route was billed as generally flat.

Thanks NYC for being honest about the hill climbing aspects of recumbents.
So very many on these newsgroups will never admit that recumbents suck on
hills.
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Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota

 

[NYC XYZ]

Edward Dolan wrote:
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> Thanks NYC for being honest about the hill climbing aspects of recumbents.
> So very many on these newsgroups will never admit that recumbents suck on
> hills.

I must say, however, that I do know of 'bent-riders who zip right up
hills, and who've beaten me on my upright assaulting a ~6% grade hill!
And I was charging up at 17mph, too, so these folks were extremely good
riders, potbellies notwithstanding! They had, of course, fully-faired
Easy Racers. Wow!

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> Regards,
>
> Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
> aka
> Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota