[Dr K]

Ask around a work, Steve. Starting soon, there's one Century or another every weekend. There's supposed to be a great one out of Berryville VA, I believe later this month. Right near the deerfest.

[VaSteve]

We don't talk about this at work

[Mister C]

Originally Posted by VaSteve

Where do you find these rides? I only know about the seagull century in the fall.

The Potomac Pedalers have rides all the time and info on other rides.

http://www.potomacpedalers.org/events/event_list.asp

http://www.potomacpedalers.org/event...=&group=112404


http://www.potomacpedalers.org/?page=backroadscentury

[Eric S]

Anyone interested and available?

Chances of rain later in the evening, so I plan to start at Rt 28-ish lot at 3pm and head west. Hoping to do 38 miles.

[Hunter]

Originally Posted by Eric S

Anyone interested and available?

Chances of rain later in the evening, so I plan to start at Rt 28-ish lot at 3pm and head west. Hoping to do 38 miles.

Current weather report: light rain and 74 degrees at mile marker 19

[Eric S]

Originally Posted by Hunter

Current weather report: light rain and 74 degrees at mile marker 19

It'll evaporate…

Besides, the Rt 28 lot is at mile marker 24.5 and going west the numbers increase.

Light rain doesn't bother me, especially on a flat and straight trail. Just don't like the downpours and the loud sparky things!

[Vicegrip]

Originally Posted by Potomac-Greg

I absolutely agree on both points. As to the first, point, I think a bike rider has a legal right to a full lane -- which is ridiculous. In theory, then can ride in the middle or even in the left tire groove, and you would have to wait for a safe place to pull into opposing traffic to pass. Thankfully, most bike riders will move over. But, consistent with your second point, if it's a hard-core, spandex-clad, Tour de France wanna-be, then they're not going to deviate course nor velocity for anyone. And then there are the packs of spandex-clad-riders .........

Is every guy that goes to the track a Schumacher wana b? No. I ride with groups on the road form time to time. Can't say I have met any militant armstrongs along the way. Have met a lot of guys that want to go from place to place without getting run over. Spandex does not mean wana b. it means the wearer is using the right gear for the job just as some one at the track wears a helmet or driving gloves at a DE.

[Hunter]

Originally Posted by Eric S

It'll evaporate…

Besides, the Rt 28 lot is at mile marker 24.5 and going west the numbers increase.

Light rain doesn't bother me, especially on a flat and straight trail. Just don't like the downpours and the loud sparky things!

Sorry my office is at 19. I can throw a rock, like a girl even, and hit the path. I have my son's football scrimmage tonight so I will pass and hope the sparky things stay away for both of us.

[John Clay]

Originally Posted by Vicegrip

Is every guy that goes to the track a Schumacher wana b? No. I ride with groups on the road form time to time. Can't say I have met any militant armstrongs along the way. Have met a lot of guys that want to go from place to place without getting run over. Spandex does not mean wana b. it means the wearer is using the right gear for the job just as some one at the track wears a helmet or driving gloves at a DE.

Fat guy in racing suit is different than fat guy in spandex. Just is.

[Potomac-Greg]

Originally Posted by Vicegrip

Is every guy that goes to the track a Schumacher wana b? No. I ride with groups on the road form time to time. Can't say I have met any militant armstrongs along the way. Have met a lot of guys that want to go from place to place without getting run over. Spandex does not mean wana b. it means the wearer is using the right gear for the job just as some one at the track wears a helmet or driving gloves at a DE.

Of course not. But you do acknowledge that there are "militant armstrongs." What percentage of them were wearing spandex? So perhaps I was being redundant.

A friend of mine explained that the stigma of spandex has little to do with the spandex itself. Rather it is that the wearer is often occupying the same space (coffee shop, rest area, park) as people in street clothes. If you walked into a Starbucks wearing a football uniform, swimming speedo or baseball uniform, you'd draw similar attention. The utility of the clothing is obvious.