Re: your worst touring bike

Yep, a good Cohiba and a snifter of Grand Mariner - thats the ticket
On Feb 20, 2011, at 2:32 PM, mmeiser wrote:

> Things that I always cringe when I hear them associated with touring
> 
> 1) jeans
> 
> 2) cigarettes
> 
> As one who used to smoke cigs "socially" (aka. chain smoke a pack in
> an evening while having beers with friends)  I understand the draw of
> cigs while touring. Touring can be stressful at times, bad roads,
> traffic, etc. But still, one is all about lung power and the other
> destroys lung capactity.
> 
> That said, on my January Blue Ridge trip I found a nice cheap cigar to
> be an excellent way to wind down the end of the day in front of the
> campfire after a long day of riding in the cold and snow.
> 
> One day... I think I may carry a pipe on tour.
> 
> -Mike
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 1:24 PM, c. s. giscombe <csgiscombe-/[email protected]> wrote:
>> Worst touring bike?
>> 
>> First hard trip out of town was on a Robin Hood 3-speed.  Climbed 30-some odd
>> miles from Albany, N.Y. east into the foothills of the Berkshires, 1971.  Amazed
>> at how the road just kept going up.  (Amazed also that I actually made it to my
>> friend's house on Horseheaven Road.)
>> 
>> Did later trips on a green Schwinn Varsity 10 speed--upright handlebars, weighed
>> a ton, a clunkier machine than the Robin Hood.
>> 
>> I went out on the Schwinn (with a friend) from Albany to Saratoga Springs one
>> day in 1973.  We had no plan--just to go to Saratoga, camp someplace, and come
>> back the next day; we were students at SUNY.  It was a glorious day all the way
>> up--we took many detours and stopped often to snack and smoke cigarettes.  Made
>> the thirty miles to Saratoga easily and so pushed on further north into the
>> unknown where darkness found us on a maze of dirt roads through a forest--there
>> were road signs but when we'd slow down to read them our generator lights would
>> go out.  Finally camped in what we realized in the morning was a rural cemetery.
>> 
>> 
>> Sold the Schwinn and bought a Gitane (Grand Sport Deluxe?  Tour de France?) for
>> $125 in 1973 from the Bike Rack in Ithaca (great store, still there), learned to
>> tour on that, wobbly as it was, and sadly replaced it--in London, in 1984--with
>> the Raleigh Record Ace I still ride every day (and on tours).
>> 
>> Great days on all those bikes but I'm missing my Robin Hood this morning.
>> 
>> CG     ______________
>> C. S. Giscombe
>> 
>> 
>> csgiscombe-/[email protected]
>> 
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