So many ebikes! I am stoked to see so many people out riding Ord, and such diversity of riders, and I do not give a hoot what any of them are riding. That place is so big it just absorbs everyone. Climbing 50 a couple weeks ago, feeling it was a decent pace, I heard voices rolling up behind me, getting louder, obviously going MUCH faster than me. They caught me as we topped out, and my internal monolog was bagging on ebikers for making me pedal harder to stay out of their way. Nope. Turns out it was just a pack of much faster riders on XC bikes putting down a bunch of acoustic watts.
If the weather ever gets properly cool, I may show for some 'cross. Feeling about 20 pounds too heavy to want to brave that crucible, but it's a glorious kind of agony that I've been threatening to revisit for too many years now...
Oct. 21, 2022, 10:40 a.m. - Mike Ferrentino
So many ebikes! I am stoked to see so many people out riding Ord, and such diversity of riders, and I do not give a hoot what any of them are riding. That place is so big it just absorbs everyone. Climbing 50 a couple weeks ago, feeling it was a decent pace, I heard voices rolling up behind me, getting louder, obviously going MUCH faster than me. They caught me as we topped out, and my internal monolog was bagging on ebikers for making me pedal harder to stay out of their way. Nope. Turns out it was just a pack of much faster riders on XC bikes putting down a bunch of acoustic watts. If the weather ever gets properly cool, I may show for some 'cross. Feeling about 20 pounds too heavy to want to brave that crucible, but it's a glorious kind of agony that I've been threatening to revisit for too many years now...