Bicycle365
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My First Time:
It started when I was late to get to an appointment. I left the house grabbed my helmet, gloves and headed off down the road using PAS 5 (pedal assist 1-2 is my normal mode) and made good time to the end of the street. At the 4 way stop , a group of 4 road riders was approaching from the right so I waved as usual , at least 2 of them saw me and they just looked away and rolled the stop sign. I recognized 2 of them wearing a local road racing and triathlon club's jersey. Now I'm a big guy on a bright yellow semi-fat bike that is VERY eStealthy. It is a clean install and you really have to look directly at the bottom bracket to see anything "unusual". So I roll out going the same way towards my appointment , they were going 16-18 mph and I soon attached to the last riders wheel, the noise of the knobbies whirring had gotten her attention and she gave a quick look to see if it was really possible that I had run them down in only a few hundred yards and was maintaining speed. I heard her exclaim "What the ???" to her friend in front of her and she looked back too. I had dropped back about 30 yards to see what they would do and I saw the message go up to the guy pulling the line. Immediately speed went to 18+ and they started pacelining to share the load at the front, I dropped back another 10 yards for effect.
I think that was the moment I turned evil.
After about another 2 miles I started a push to jump the gap back up to the "breakaway" (why do I hear Phil Liggett's voice in my head). I closed in , but not wanting to mess up their paceline rotation or cause a crash I stayed back about 10 bike lengths. We came to a long downhill followed by an equally long uphill. I decided that if I wanted to be on time for my appointment I would need to pass them. So about halfway down the hill I went by at about 40 mph as they were going 35+ ish, as I reached mid pack I yelled "TEAM GRAVITY" in reference to my size and rolling weight. I heard one of the guys yell "What goes down must go up" looking at the uphill section fast approaching. I went to PAS9 and dropped them on the uphill ...
I made my appointment on time and must have looked like a lunatic since I couldn't wipe the smile off my face and I might have giggled to myself a few times.
Stay tuned for "Hunting Roadies" Part 2 ~ "Using Strava Heatmaps as a Fish Finder"
It started when I was late to get to an appointment. I left the house grabbed my helmet, gloves and headed off down the road using PAS 5 (pedal assist 1-2 is my normal mode) and made good time to the end of the street. At the 4 way stop , a group of 4 road riders was approaching from the right so I waved as usual , at least 2 of them saw me and they just looked away and rolled the stop sign. I recognized 2 of them wearing a local road racing and triathlon club's jersey. Now I'm a big guy on a bright yellow semi-fat bike that is VERY eStealthy. It is a clean install and you really have to look directly at the bottom bracket to see anything "unusual". So I roll out going the same way towards my appointment , they were going 16-18 mph and I soon attached to the last riders wheel, the noise of the knobbies whirring had gotten her attention and she gave a quick look to see if it was really possible that I had run them down in only a few hundred yards and was maintaining speed. I heard her exclaim "What the ???" to her friend in front of her and she looked back too. I had dropped back about 30 yards to see what they would do and I saw the message go up to the guy pulling the line. Immediately speed went to 18+ and they started pacelining to share the load at the front, I dropped back another 10 yards for effect.
I think that was the moment I turned evil.
After about another 2 miles I started a push to jump the gap back up to the "breakaway" (why do I hear Phil Liggett's voice in my head). I closed in , but not wanting to mess up their paceline rotation or cause a crash I stayed back about 10 bike lengths. We came to a long downhill followed by an equally long uphill. I decided that if I wanted to be on time for my appointment I would need to pass them. So about halfway down the hill I went by at about 40 mph as they were going 35+ ish, as I reached mid pack I yelled "TEAM GRAVITY" in reference to my size and rolling weight. I heard one of the guys yell "What goes down must go up" looking at the uphill section fast approaching. I went to PAS9 and dropped them on the uphill ...
I made my appointment on time and must have looked like a lunatic since I couldn't wipe the smile off my face and I might have giggled to myself a few times.
Stay tuned for "Hunting Roadies" Part 2 ~ "Using Strava Heatmaps as a Fish Finder"