velotel
11-02-2015, 03:21 PM
I'm looking forward to this; two people I admire enormously will/might be there. Andy Hampsten (and his wife who I don't know) is coming with Katy, Kent Eriksen's wife. Kent will be there unless he can't get away due to a complication with some delivery. Kent I've known for years, since the early 80's, a great guy and a superb rider, road or mountain. A class act all the way. Andy I don't know though we both know of the other and have for a long time. Everything, without exception, that I've read of him and heard from mutual friends states unequivocally that he too is a total class act, someone to admire. His/their presence at Vecchio's will be an unexpected treat.
Which makes me nervous about the slide show. I want it to be up to their standards but I've never done a slide show. Have to wing it, hope for the best. It's all ready to go. A huge amount of work, more than I imagined. So many photos, so many roads, what do I choose, what do I discard. The discarding was the hardest part. Like throwing old friends out the door, telling them they aren't invited to the party. Bummer. I like what I've got; hopefully others will too. Emphasis on some pretty different roads from the ones people usually hear about, at least when the subject of riding in France comes up.
The rides I finally settled on are at the head of my best of the best rides, the have-to list. I might have even been thinking of them as rides on my bucket list even though I never would have used the term, at least consciously. But given that in the last year or two I've been pushing myself hard to bag a bunch of rides I hadn't done - and had wanted to do for a long time - while I still could - as in while I still had enough form to ride them correctly - I suppose that pretty much says that they were exactly that, bucket list rides, rides I wanted to do before I kicked the damn bucket.
Well, the bucket's still standing and not one of these rides is inside. Now they're on my re-do list and the have-to-show-to-my-son-and-friends list. And in the slide show. Maybe they'll be like a highly contagious virus; everyone who watches the show will leave with the rides all jammed into their buckets and clamoring for attention.
So if you're in the Boulder area Friday evening, get over to Vecchio's, watch the show. And buy my book while you're there. Jim will like that. So will I.
And just to whet your appetite, a few shots from Sunday, as glorious a day as I've ever seen in France.
Cheers
Which makes me nervous about the slide show. I want it to be up to their standards but I've never done a slide show. Have to wing it, hope for the best. It's all ready to go. A huge amount of work, more than I imagined. So many photos, so many roads, what do I choose, what do I discard. The discarding was the hardest part. Like throwing old friends out the door, telling them they aren't invited to the party. Bummer. I like what I've got; hopefully others will too. Emphasis on some pretty different roads from the ones people usually hear about, at least when the subject of riding in France comes up.
The rides I finally settled on are at the head of my best of the best rides, the have-to list. I might have even been thinking of them as rides on my bucket list even though I never would have used the term, at least consciously. But given that in the last year or two I've been pushing myself hard to bag a bunch of rides I hadn't done - and had wanted to do for a long time - while I still could - as in while I still had enough form to ride them correctly - I suppose that pretty much says that they were exactly that, bucket list rides, rides I wanted to do before I kicked the damn bucket.
Well, the bucket's still standing and not one of these rides is inside. Now they're on my re-do list and the have-to-show-to-my-son-and-friends list. And in the slide show. Maybe they'll be like a highly contagious virus; everyone who watches the show will leave with the rides all jammed into their buckets and clamoring for attention.
So if you're in the Boulder area Friday evening, get over to Vecchio's, watch the show. And buy my book while you're there. Jim will like that. So will I.
And just to whet your appetite, a few shots from Sunday, as glorious a day as I've ever seen in France.
Cheers