Funny times from the E-side...........

[recumpence]

I just got back from a short ride on my trike. I blew by a couple roadies like they were tied to a post.

I love doing that!

Anyone else love that?

Matt

 

[mwkeefer]

Matt,

Can they see if you back pedal? Will the tensioner on your cranks allow it (assuming this was on your recumbent KMX)? Best ever is not just blowing by them (uphill) but pedal backwards a bit while doing it, really gets em hopping mad

-Mike

PS: Glad you got out for a spin today!

 

[EVTodd]

Yup, good times right there! I do it almost daily going up one of the large hills in my neighborhood. I don't think the lycra crowd around here likes me. lol. I always wish I had a sandwich to eat while passing them, it would just add to the effect.

I pretty much control myself on the bike paths but going up hill in a neighborhood I'll have some fun.

 

[johnrobholmes]

My favorite is ripping down the MKT trail at night. Technically, ebikes are allowed although nighttime travel is not. It is eerie blasting down the old railway corridor with just a headlamp and the sound of wind in my ears.


You get that carbon bent running?

 

[mwkeefer]

Smoke a cigarette - that will really get em... or in the early AM... a steaming hot cup of JAva and a smoke up hill backpedaling... in matts ride, if you could rig autopilot you could actually fall asleep while passing lycro (ok, that's overboard).
-Mike

 

[recumpence]

You get that carbon bent running?

Yup, it is together. No motor, though. But it is together and I ride it pretty much every day.

Matt

 

[Demosthenes]

I keep trying to think of witty responses when they call me a cheater, but by the time I do, they are long gone. I think of some in advance, and then never have time to get it all out.

 

[Zoot Katz]

I keep trying to think of witty responses when they call me a cheater, but by the time I do, they are long gone. I think of some in advance, and then never have time to get it all out.

Try "Luddite".

 

[EVTodd]

I keep trying to think of witty responses when they call me a cheater, but by the time I do, they are long gone. I think of some in advance, and then never have time to get it all out.

Try "Luddite".

lol... Very highbrow. I like it.

 

[Kiwi]

My lovely lady, when taking our 2 boys up our steep hill on the cargo bike, always remembers to say to the licra clad road bikes, as she silently pedals past them..

.. "man, you guys were hard to catch!"

 

[Miles]

........... "man, you guys were hard to catch!"

Brilliant!

 

[recumpence]

Still the best occurance I had was riding my recumbent at 40mph on a through street. There were two Lycra DF roadies ahead riding at full tilt drafting off each other. I was wearing my baggy shorts that were flapping in the breeze, my legs nice are hairy. I ripped by them at warp speed, just turning the motor off as I blew by them. When I looked in the mirror, all I saw were two lycras with one hand on the bars, sitting straight up, trying to figure out what the heck that black blurr was the just flashed by. That was fun!

I never have a chance to say anything to these guys. I always blow by them way too fast.

Matt