Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Catrike Ryder Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: Getting old is not for sissies Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 17:14:41 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: <0jt3sj9iofpo2ru3abmi7ddrt4uk5btc9t@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 23:14:42 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c7efa9f76fa525bc1e9f84a2cc889d51"; logging-data="4061245"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18S4K2pXlRZD0hKQnW7prB5kSdbIj/cKws=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:n0GvQWlpQC8v6ocKEJ2bl0mlEwY= On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 15:36:28 -0600, AMuzi wrote: >On 2/28/2025 11:50 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote: >> On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 11:31:08 -0600, AMuzi wrote: >> >>> On 2/28/2025 11:24 AM, cyclintom wrote: >>>> On Fri Feb 28 11:14:11 2025 Frank Krygowski wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Sorry to hear that. I was riding over lumpy wet ice in a gravel parking >>>>> lot yesterday. I was very conscious that falls can now have much worse >>>>> consequences than they once did. >>>>> >>>>> But I think it's still important to keep giving ourselves reasonable >>>>> challenges, to maintain skill and agility. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I expect that your old steel touring bike is more apt for conditions like thqat than Andrew's higher performqance bike. >>> >>> Wheelbase, tire width, tread or rider position would make no >>> difference leaning into a turn over ice. >> >> I suspect that riding a Catrike on ice would be really fun. >> >> -- >> C'est bon >> Soloman > >+1 > >Very different from a two-wheeler! Very diferent indeed. Tell me that you weren't out riding your fixie on icy roads. Riding a fixie seems risky enough without any ice. -- C'est bon Soloman