aka Tom Reingold
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: New York, NY, and High Falls, NY, USA
Posts: 40,503
Bikes: 1962 Rudge Sports, 1971 Raleigh Super Course, 1971 Raleigh Pro Track, 1974 Raleigh International, 1975 Viscount Fixie, 1982 McLean, 1996 Lemond (Ti), 2002 Burley Zydeco tandem
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I love this. A young dude on a Colnago passed me in Central Park. I was commuting home and adding a couple of extra miles, as I usually don't go to Central Park. But I decided to see how I would do, and I ended up dusting him. I went home and weighed my commuting bike, and it was 34 lbs with all the crap. His bike probably weighed half of that. And I think I was a bit of a knucklehead, as I played into the competition. But the point here, I think, is that people can't judge by appearances.
I got dusted by a man much older and heavier than I was. It humbled me, and I'm grateful for it.