Have you ridden your PBP bike since PBP?
Roy Yates
"I drank FORTY bottles of latte Perpetuem on PBP. Believe it or not,
I
can still stand to be in the same room with it!"
reminded me that I still can't stand to be in the same room as my PBP
bike. A month after I got home, I reassembled the bike and hung it up
in a corner of the basement. Since then, I've done R-12 rides on a
variety of other bikes. I wonder if I'll be ready to ride my PBP bike
some time next spring.
So am I alone here?
Jeff Sammons
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Pam Wright
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Ian Hennessey
most of you. I have mostly been on the fixed since then.
Ian H
Audax UK
PS: anyone in Paris on Jan 14?
WMdeR
My randonneur is the machine that best fits my core uses, fits me
best, and is the one I reach for with a smile unless I have some
specialized reason not to ride it.
I haven't done any organized brevets since PBP, but my PBP bike was on
the road the morning after I finished for an 40Km warmdown ride. I
rode it 80Km or so that Friday, just bopping around Paris, and I got
another short jaunt in on Saturday before I boxed it up.
Once I got it back to the USA, I wasn't able to ride it until it was
delivered to my home, but I commute on it daily and it finds itself on
most of my weekend rides as well. I did put a steel cassette back on
it, gave Mike Kone his prototype René Herse crank back (I'd tested it
in France--looking forward to getting one of my own out of the next
batch), and oiled the chain.
Why ride anything less well-suited?
Best Regards,
Will
William M. deRosset
Fort Collins, CO
On Dec 16, 12:42 pm, Jeff Sammons <jcs_...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> My PBP bike is still hanging in the garage without a chain, and has never been cleaned or riden since. Same goes for my Camelbak.
>
> I too have completed R-12 rides on my other bikes. Maybe over Christmas holidays I'll get the PBP bike back in running order!
>
> ________________________________
> From: Roy Yates <roydya...@gmail.com>
> To: randon <ran...@googlegroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 1:21 PM
> Subject: [Randon] Have you ridden your PBP bike since PBP?
>
> Susan Otcena's comment
>
> "I drank FORTY bottles of latte Perpetuem on PBP. Believe it or not,
> I can still stand to be in the same room with it!"
>
> reminded me that I still can't stand to be in the same room as my PBP
> bike. A month after I got home, I reassembled the bike and hung it up
> in a corner of the basement. Since then, I've done R-12 rides on a
> variety of other bikes. I wonder if I'll be ready to ride my PBP bike
> some time next spring.
>
> So am I alone here?
>
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Jan Heine
http://janheine.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/a-trip-to-france/
Then it went to the Raid Pyreneen, all within two weeks of PBP. Great memories!
Upon returning to the U.S., it's been on an epic trip back from
Portland's Oregon Manifest, see
http://janheine.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/a-mountain-adventure/
Right now, it's in pieces, as I want to fit our new Rene Herse
cranks... I never ride much in November and December, but I can't
wait to get back on the road soon to start the new season.
Jan Heine
Editor
Bicycle Quarterly
2116 Western Ave.
Seattle WA 98121
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William Pustow
Jim House
we have already had snow on the ground - so off on the fender bike till
spring.
Today we passed the wettest year ever recorded in Toledo Ohio - glad I did
not need a lot of that wet riding experience at PBP this year.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Jim House
Maumee, OH
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Roy Yates
Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 2:22 PM
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Subject: [Randon] Have you ridden your PBP bike since PBP?
Susan Otcena's comment
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trplay
put the little feller on a diet <a href="http://trplay1.wordpress.com/
2011/12/16/a-different-pick-three/">see here</a> and he lost 5
pounds. I keep thinking how much different riding the PBP with the
lighter bike and if I dropped the 25 pound self support bag. Maybe I
can find out in 2015?
Eric Keller
lighter bike and if I dropped the 25 pound self support bag. Maybe I
can find out in 2015?
Eric
Kole Kantner
Kole
Chris Heg
have.
William Pustow
Bob the Wheelbuilder
on my road bike and one 200K on my backup brevet bike. I hope to get
my main squeeze back together over the holidays.
oldmangabe
I've been busy riding my other 3 favorite rando bikes since I got
back. Hmmm...I think I need to diversify my bike collection.
Gabe
Jim Logan
I noticed in 2012 I only ride my brevet bike on brevets, and my carbon bike
for everything else. That leads to some "humorous" episodes, such as
getting 150 miles into a brevet before realizing my seat height is wrong.
Weight just matters when you climb a lot of extended hills 10-15% (i.e.
Western PA).
My brevet bike is already sexy, as it is a hand-built coupled steel bike
from Stephen Bilenky in Philadelphia. But to make it a closer weight
competitor to my carbon bike, I sent it back to Stephen after PBP. "We"
are converting it from a triple to a double, and it is getting a carbon fork
and handlebars. I've also decide modernize to STI shifters from downtube
shifters. It's getting a new head tube to accommodate modern forks, and a
new paint job as well. I bought a titanium rear rack to replace my aluminum
rack. I wait for the day Sella Anatomica comes out with a titanium framed
saddle (hinted at).
Jim Logan
Pittsburgh
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Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 2:22 PM
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Subject: [Randon] Have you ridden your PBP bike since PBP?
Susan Otcena's comment
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Richard James
it's assembled and nearly rideable (needs a chain). No shortage of
other bikes to ride, but haven't done any rides beyond 200k since PBP.
Mitchel
Mitchel
Thomas Durkin
Happy Trails,
Tom
Susan Otcenas
down to Chamonix, so I took advantage of the time to ride some of the
famous (and less famous) climbs in the area. Col de Montets, Col de la
Columbiere, Col de Joux Plane, Alpe de Huez. My legs had no snap, but I
was surprised how well I climbed, given how soon it was after PBP.
Since coming home, I've ridden my Sweetpea off and on this fall, but not
tons. Longest ride has been 90 miles. After the intensity of the
spring and summer getting ready for PBP, I decided I would take a break
from riding brevets this fall. I love riding my bike, but a break from
needing generators, reflective gear, etc. was in order.
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TommyBFromSC
Waterford I used in Alaska since then. All rides since then have been
on the fixie or the old Vitus. I thought I was the only one who felt
the need to get a break from the bike that I used for most of the big
rides this year. Apparently quite a few of us think similarly. Go
figure...
Randon Nerd
Willie
Roger Peskett
returning from France.
My cyclometer shows that I have cycled 2,270 miles on other bikes here
in Arizona since PBP 2011, but its clock is still set to French time.
rob hawks
minority and I was right but it is a different minority than I would
have guessed. Based on most of the replies here, I did really well in
getting my PBP bike back on the road. It did sit in the shipping box
for a really long time. It might have been two months, but once I got
it all cleaned up I began to ride it a lot for commuting, short
recreational rides and longer rides. True, I have favored one of my
other bikes for the longer rides, but I haven't ignored my PBP bike.
I've done a bit over 3000 miles since PBP, with ~500 on my PBP bike.
rob hawks
NickBull
I'm about in the same boat. My PBP bike sat in its S&S box for a
month before I put it back together. It got ridden for two weeks of
commuting (200 miles) to deal with a knee problem from a bike that I
rode too aggressively even though it didn't quite fit right. I've
ridden 1200Km of brevets and permanents, mostly on the tandem but one
200Km on my "regular" brevet bike, an '84 Trek 610. Adding in the
commuting, I've ridden a couple thousand miles since PBP, but volume
is definitely lower in the fall, I'm sort of taking it easy! The PBP
bike has slightly more expensive components so I try to spare it from
the wear and tear of the more routine rides, and just keep it for
special events.
Nick
RobMnUSA
I rode PBP many years ago (1979) and remember my cardboard bike box sitting in the hallway for over a month after the ride. At that time in my life I only had one bike. Finally I put it together for a 60 mile fast club ride. The first 1/2 of the ride I felt slow, uncomfortable and unconnected to the bike. The last 30 miles nobody could keep up with me, my legs were like iron pistons and I couldn't keep the smile off my face.
Rob
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