[rollei_list] Re: OFF-TOPIC - Bicycles
- From: David Restall - System Administrator <dave@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 16:03:26 +0100
Hi,
Thu Jun 08 15:25:00 2006 - Eric :-
> This has been a great education for me. Since we have screamed tht
> this is OT, one more question... how good/bad an idea is this?
>
> http://www.bikeengines.com/
Hmmm. Sort of defeats the object. It's the cycling equivalent
of a digital camera. It's just not the same as doing it yourself.
I was out a couple of weeks ago on Emily (so called because like all
Suffragettes she spends a lot of time chained to railings) and I had
ridden for 6 undulating miles up a 300m climb against a pretty nasty
wind and I was getting a bit fed up. At the top the road turned and
the wind was more favourable. I then sped up and was flying - I was
cheered by some motorists parked at the roadside. Now that was living,
that was a manual Rollei, that was not a P&S do it all digital :-) When
I turned off, I turned into the headwind proper and I had to pedal down
the hills. I could not make more than 8mph on the flat :-( You know
you are alive after days like that, you know nothing with an engine.
I should have gone round the route in the opposite direction, but that
would have meant getting to the cafe too early.
I've not managed to take a good photograph (one that says how I feel)
about the hills round here, but when I do this will be where I post
them :-)
Regards,
Dave
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