The Slow Bicycle Movement

**pardes** · 08-19-2008, 03:32 PM

We'd have to schedule meetings days ahead so we could get there in time.

**SlowButSteady** · 08-19-2008, 05:11 PM

Needless to say, I love the concept!

**BleeckerSt_Girl** · 08-19-2008, 06:11 PM

Only problem is if they insist on single speed bikes.
I'm already painfully slow. On the hills where I live here, if I had to give up my mountain gearing I'd be going down the hill backwards when I was supposed to be going UP it.

**redranger** · 08-19-2008, 06:28 PM

Slow pride!

**pardes** · 08-19-2008, 06:54 PM

Molasses would be our club food.

**Grog** · 08-19-2008, 09:51 PM

Originally Posted by pardes

Molasses would be our club food.

If we can have buckwheat crepes with the molasses, I'm in.

**BleeckerSt_Girl** · 08-20-2008, 09:58 AM

Originally Posted by Grog

If we can have buckwheat crepes with the molasses, I'm in.

I fueled up on French toast and bacon with maple syrup before my 25 mile, 10.4 average mph ride this morning.....does that count? I ate it really slowly, too.

**ilima** · 08-20-2008, 11:56 AM

Originally Posted by BleeckerSt_Girl

Only problem is if they insist on single speed bikes.
I'm already painfully slow. On the hills where I live here, if I had to give up my mountain gearing I'd be going down the hill backwards when I was supposed to be going UP it.

Exactly. The Amsterdam-Copenhagen ethos doesn't really translate well to much of the US.

I live up a 2.5 mile hill with an average grade of 7.5% and a stretch at 17%. Triple with a mountain cassette, thank you very much.

**BleeckerSt_Girl** · 08-20-2008, 12:03 PM

Originally Posted by ilima

Exactly. The Amsterdam-Copenhagen ethos doesn't really translate well to much of the US.

I live up a 2.5 mile hill with an average grade of 7.5% and a stretch at 17%. Triple with a mountain cassette, thank you very much.

I hear you.

Hey maybe all those "slow biking" club guys live in Florida and Iowa where everything is flat and so they need to use the single speed bikes in order to qualify for the slowness requirement? Even on their single speeds, they are STILL faster than those of us with 1000 gears who are crawling up our gazillion hills on every ride.

So it's ok to have lots of gears if you are still slow anyway.

**Pax** · 08-20-2008, 12:42 PM

Originally Posted by BleeckerSt_Girl

So it's ok to have lots of gears if you are still slow anyway.

Whew! Glad to know I can still be in the slooooooow club.

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