Garrison, and Sheldon:
I couldn't agree more. In my youth, I rode for the attention of the lasses, and the fenderless racer boy ethos. Now in my 50th year, the Brittany gal's look through my plastic fenders, mismatched colored tights, and jersey's (deemed by my spouse as "too young for a senior, fat old man...") as I'm invisible to the young lasses, and scorned by the racer boys when on my old heavy steely bikes (and gear)... I remain drafting anything that moves if they allow, or just pushing myself down that dark 'lonesome highway'... in pre-dawn morn's or after work on the salty roads hereabouts.
Paul Dieterle, ex-'Turin/Kozy's' wrench (& NU Student) from the late
'60s-early 70s 'BOOM' days still usually on Steel and sans indexing
Greater Chicago (Evanston) USA
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From: Garrison Hilliard <garrison@efn.org>
To: Sheldon Brown <CaptBike@sheldonbrown.com>
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On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Sheldon Brown wrote:
> I doubt it's still true, but back in the old days, in Britain, riding
> without fenders, except for actual racing, marked you as a
> racerboy-lookalike-wannabe and exposed you to scornful smirks from
> Real Cyclists.
I agree Sheldon's statement completely!
Garrison Hilliard
Cin., Ohio