Rick Johnson
2010-01-25
Ron, Duh! A cave man would ride singlespeed. Cavemen don't need gears!
Rick Johnson
Bend, OregonEvery revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction...
One, it's completely impossible.
Two, it's possible, but it's not worth doing.
Three, I said it was a good idea all along.Arthur C. Clarke
Ron and Dorothy Strasser wrote:
Thanks for post.
I never forget. I just don't
remember... most of the time. The ladies you mentioned are heroes.
One thing I do know for sure
is..... I am crushed by local
women riders very often. I wish I could ride as fast and handle a bike
at that level. One saying that works for both cycling and
bowling.........."Lets roll". I am pretty sure a common recovery
drink for adult participants in both sports is..... beer? One difference
however I saw on TV (and I BELIEVE EVERYTHING I SEE ON TV). I saw one
of those GEICO ads where this nice cave man (in standard modern day
caveman kit) was having fun bowling, but then noticed the pin-setter
guard had the GEICO phrase... "So easy a cave man can do it". I
think in cycling a cave man would have a HARD TIME with the shifting of
a bike. Lets face it. You can drill different size finger holes in a
bowling ball, but can do very little to accommodate different sized
hands for shifting mechanisms.
Hmmmmmmmmmm. Maybe they would need
to be singlespeed riders. Maybe I am looking in the mirror? Scraggly
beard, body hair. Ah! I have forgotten the rest.
ron
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Original Message -----
Sent:
Monday, January 25, 2010 12:49 PM
Subject:
Re: Pro bowlers and women in cycling...
Have you guys forgotten about Jacquie Phelan already? You
know, women were kicking ass in this sport a long time ago. Jacquie was
handily crushing the competition in the early 1980's and was the first
woman MTB racer to receive factory sponsorship. Cindy Whitehead was a
contemporary of Jacquie's and in the 1986 edition of the Sierra 7500
(7,500 feet of climbing in a 50 mile off-road race) she rode 49 miles
of the race WITHOUT A SADDLE. Yep. Standing up. The top of the seatpost
was broken off and she couldn't remove the rest of the post from the
frame. But she kept racing. HARDCORE. And she won! I believe that she
took first overall meaning that she defeated even the men.
And Jeannie Longo? Her career wins put most men's to shame.
(It is a mistake to try comparing her to Lance Armstrong.) In fact, I
believe she's the winningest bike racer, man or woman. I'd have to take
some time to do a little research, but I have to get back to work. :)
Anyway-- it's sad that cycling is still a male-dominated sport
and that we have forgotten so many of the pioneers and "true achievers".
Google around, guys!
Cheers!
Brian J.
Message: 4
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:48:01 -0800
From: "Ron and Dorothy Strasser" <rondot@spiritone.com>
talking about and riding bikes/
trainers, repairing, selling etc. a very important thing happened. In the Pro Bowlers Tour
Championships a bowler named Kelly Kulick won the championship. The important aspect of this
was she worked her way all the way through the playoff system to become
the first woman to win this championship which has been totally
dominated by men to this point. Way
to go Kelly. A true
"Achiever".
Now those who do not care about this
sort of thing, but took the time to read this can go back to the nuts
and bolts of cycling.
The Dude abides..........
wimpy man ron
Message: 7
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:49:07 -0800
From: joe cipale <joec@aracnet.com>
Having been a former bowler in my past
life, What this woman
accocmplisehd is no small feat! Think of Jeanie Longo winning
the Men's
UCI RR championship against the likes
of Armstrong, Cadel Evans, Alberto
Contador, etc
* * *
My father asks : "Do you live here or ride bikes?"
My life as a Crossniac:
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