"col" <col.RemoveThis@col.com> wrote in message news:384cniF5jcv9vU1@individual.net...
> "Dave E" <i.am.RemoveThis@my.wits.end.with.spam> wrote in message
> news:3837m3F5is4ntU1@individual.net...
> > ...from riding my bloody pushbike.
> >
> > I used to ride about 300+ kms per week on the damned thing until I
bought
> > a
> > powered bike about 3 years ago.
>
> The good old days when we had buns of steel....I used to ride around a
fair
> bit too clocking up aroud 500k's a week (it was 50 k's to work and back
> again). When summer and the big races come around I get an urge to go
riding
> but have managed to hold myself back. Would love to do it again one of
these
> days...
>
Hi Col,
Well there you go - had to outdo me by 200 kms/wk!
Yes you're right. These days I'm sporting a bit of a spare tyre and back in
those cycling days of interval training, long grinds, racing - both
mountainbike and road, I was buff mate, buff! In the blink of an eye I've
gone to seed - not good for the fans.
Getting back into the saddle is fraught with pain and suffering (and being a
few years older doesn't help) but (and don't let this get out amongst the
lot in this ng...) - like you I miss those days of powering myself around
the place. I remember holding 50 to 55 all the way up from the bottom of
the Pac. Hwy almost to Crows Nest with those big (shaved... mmmm) pistons
pumping away - hundreds of chicks looking on in awe, could have been
thosands. What a buzz (for them). Of course those speeds are a snap on the
XX but it's just not the same.
So just do it mate - the iron butt thing happens pretty quickly and your
bike misses you. Do it for the fans, and those big shaved legs look and
feel the go eh? hehe Just don't neglect the other bike(s) though.
Cheers,
Dave (suffering from a few too many beers this morning...) TCR1 => ZZR600 =>
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