Originally Posted by
Tourist in MSN
But I could see some racer saying the knee thing as a line of BS that was intended to impress those that were gullible.
Our favorite Tall Tale was "The Legend of Big Miles Jimmy".
On Saturday winter base miles rides as a club Jimmy, a noted TT specialist and wit, would continue on at our turnaround point and ride off into the distance.
"Where's Jimmy going?" the newbies would ask.
"Big miles" we'd all say with straight faces, "
Really BIG miles....."
One Sunday AM as the group was riding along here comes Jimmy from the other direction looking utterly spent while doggedly turning the cranks over headed home "at last".
"Did Jimmy ride
all day and all night?" the astonished newbie would ask.
"Big miles" we'd all say with straight faces, "
Really BIG miles....."
Eventually someone would fess-up that although Jimmy did indeed put in some impressive miles he had a GF 20 or so miles up the road he visited on the weekends.
Tall Tales and insider jokes can take on a life of their own and become cycling's version of urban legends, if they are just
barely plausible enough.
"
Big miles, indeed."
-Bandera