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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: Coumting bikes
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 20:33:15 -0500
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On 4/19/2024 6:18 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
> On 4/19/2024 4:19 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>> On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 13:54:55 -0500, AMuzi 
>> <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On 4/19/2024 1:15 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>>>> Why would
>>>> anyone choose to ride under somebody else's directions?
>>>
>>>
>>> As is often quoted, for every room in heaven there's another
>>> just like it in hell for someone else.
>>
>> Everybody follows their own directions. Some people's 
>> directions have
>> them following other people.
> 
> So the grumpiest person here, and the one with the most 
> limited riding regime, thinks there's no joy or value in 
> riding with others.
> 
> On my most recent group ride, I had friendly conversation 
> with at least 8 different people, and I was introduced to a 
> few roads I'd never ridden, some with beautiful scenery. At 
> the group ride's end, I carried on solo for another 16 miles 
> or so at a higher pace.
> 
> I'm happy to be able to enjoy riding with others or riding 
> solo, riding fast or riding more slowly, riding for 
> recreation or for utility.
> 
> Some folks are much more limited.
> 
That's your value judgement on a matter of personal taste.

Meanwhile Mr Tricycle is free to ride wherever he likes with 
whomsoever he pleases. Or with no one.

I'm maybe less a misanthrope, but I quit 'group rides' 35 
years ago and don't miss them, or that sort of conversation, 
  at all.  Oh, and I am never alone. This week I'm riding 
with Tacitus (I'm reading his 'Histories'), Hannah Arendt 
(just finished her Past and Future) and others. With Billie 
Holiday in the background.
-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971