Ryan Cousineau
12-31-1969, 08:00 PM
In article
<0cddcc8e-ee86-42c7-821e-33094da65919@u6g2000prc.googlegroups.com>,
"Qui si parla Campagnolo-www.vecchios.com" <peter@vecchios.com> wrote:
> On May 22, 12:06*am, "Mike Jacoubowsky" <Mi...@ChainReaction.com>
> wrote:
> > > ahhh, from the era when the object of the ride was the ride, not the
> > > bike. Where the bike was there to get you there, not there to swoon
> > > and gush over before the ride.
> >
> > Excuse me? When, exactly, was that era?
> >
> Same era as my Ciocc, with Super Record and once built it just went.
> Disappeared beneath me, was there everyday I needed it. Nobody in my
> club got all weak kneed at the coffee shop [...]
Perhaps, but on the other hand, the amount of gear-wankery described in
_The Rider_ (set in 1977) is pretty high. One rider is known as "le
Douze" for the special 12-tooth cog he specially sought out after
hearing that Merckx used one. Other riders are picking their gears from
their cog boxes before the race.
I realize that you were not like that, but I think there have been
gear-heads in cycling for quite some time. From Carl's studies, there
appears to be evidence for advanced equipment nuttiness back into the
Ordinary era.
Both gear-nut and gear-iconoclast at once,
Obgear: clubmate was riding the weirdest Mavics at the training race
tonight: ordinary shallow-section metal rims, but with the fattest
round-section carbon spokes I have ever seen. They looked like some sort
of deliberate effort to create the least aerodynamic wheel possible.
To his credit, they were loaners,
--
Ryan Cousineau rcousine@gmail.com http://www.wiredcola.com/
"In other newsgroups, they killfile trolls."
"In rec.bicycles.racing, we coach them."
<0cddcc8e-ee86-42c7-821e-33094da65919@u6g2000prc.googlegroups.com>,
"Qui si parla Campagnolo-www.vecchios.com" <peter@vecchios.com> wrote:
> On May 22, 12:06*am, "Mike Jacoubowsky" <Mi...@ChainReaction.com>
> wrote:
> > > ahhh, from the era when the object of the ride was the ride, not the
> > > bike. Where the bike was there to get you there, not there to swoon
> > > and gush over before the ride.
> >
> > Excuse me? When, exactly, was that era?
> >
> Same era as my Ciocc, with Super Record and once built it just went.
> Disappeared beneath me, was there everyday I needed it. Nobody in my
> club got all weak kneed at the coffee shop [...]
Perhaps, but on the other hand, the amount of gear-wankery described in
_The Rider_ (set in 1977) is pretty high. One rider is known as "le
Douze" for the special 12-tooth cog he specially sought out after
hearing that Merckx used one. Other riders are picking their gears from
their cog boxes before the race.
I realize that you were not like that, but I think there have been
gear-heads in cycling for quite some time. From Carl's studies, there
appears to be evidence for advanced equipment nuttiness back into the
Ordinary era.
Both gear-nut and gear-iconoclast at once,
Obgear: clubmate was riding the weirdest Mavics at the training race
tonight: ordinary shallow-section metal rims, but with the fattest
round-section carbon spokes I have ever seen. They looked like some sort
of deliberate effort to create the least aerodynamic wheel possible.
To his credit, they were loaners,
--
Ryan Cousineau rcousine@gmail.com http://www.wiredcola.com/
"In other newsgroups, they killfile trolls."
"In rec.bicycles.racing, we coach them."