Fred's Road Table Manners Tips???

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Riding long distances is a different kind of riding than fasty 25 mile club rides and pacelines. Long distance touring often means not avoiding hills, riding gravel roads, packing lunch and clothing changes, hours of hot sun or rain, walking around in your riding shoes, and riding roads that have less than ideal shoulders and visibility.
Thus, things like CamelBaks, helmets with visors, mountain bike shoes, triple cranksets and/or mountain bike cassettes, lots of reflective stuff, and large saddlebags all make perfect sense for long distance riding.
At a "mere" 100 miles per week, I'm not in the long distance "big league" just yet, but I have everything except the Camelback and the mtn shoes already on my bike- it just seemed totally logical for the kind of riding I like to do.

[northstar]

Riding long distances is a different kind of riding than fasty 25 mile club rides and pacelines. Long distance touring often means not avoiding hills, riding gravel roads, packing lunch and clothing changes, hours of hot sun or rain, walking around in your riding shoes, and riding roads that have less than ideal shoulders and visibility.
Thus, things like CamelBaks, helmets with visors, mountain bike shoes, triple cranksets and/or mountain bike cassettes, lots of reflective stuff, and large saddlebags all make perfect sense for long distance riding.
At a "mere" 100 miles per week, I'm not in the long distance "big league" just yet, but I have everything except the Camelback and the mtn shoes already on my bike- it just seemed totally logical for the kind of riding I like to do.

Wow, I have all these things! All on my carbon bike! WOO HOO!!!!!