M_A_Martin
08-17-2004, 11:18 AM
I usually can't pick out bike makes and models when I'm riding on tours and whatnot. But I actually recognized an OttRott on my century ride on Sunday!
I was cruising along all by myself on the Assenmacher 100 and I missed a turn. My buddy who was doing his first century had wandered up and was chatting with some guys and happily disappeared for a while.
So there I was, around mile 50 or so, cruising along the course when these obvious tri guys started passing me. "whoop whooop whoop - thuda thuda thuda (boy, those carbon wheels sure make a lot of noise!). Hmmmm, funny... is there a tri group training on this ride? Seems like there's a lot of them and some of them have forgotten to wash off their numbers. Boy are they fast! I kept pedaling like a normal person and I came up to a set of cones and flaggers who flagged me through the interesection with a "Way to GO GIRL!"
Um...ok...
I continued to ride along a bit distracted by the ffgs and I passed their turn around point. Oh! There's a race out here too! Now I get it! The flagger thought I was a girl racer who was doing really really well. HA!
I pedal a few miles further and realize that I'm out there all by myself in the middle of nowhere. I check the map and the road I just crossed isn't on it anywhere. I pedal further (I've been out in the middle of nowhere and obviously alone on a tour before...but this just wasn't right.) and stopped to ask a local where the road I'm looking for is. "That's about two miles past the last road you crossed." The intersection I was flagged through! Back I go.
I'm almost to the tri turn-around and two more cyclists zip through and head out just like I did. "Assenmacher" "Yeah!" "Wrong WAY"
Hey! The guy's on an OttRott!
I didn't catch his name, but his OttRott is a beautiful bike that stands out of the crowd when you see it out in the world away from all the other OttRotts!
I'm happy to report that my buddy and I finished the century in 6 hours 34 minutes, 15.3mph average. For reference, the last century I rode before my mortocycle accident I finished in 6 hours 39 minutes. So I guess I'm "back" to the point I was before I got smacked! Yay!
So I had two milestones: My first century since the accident in September of 2000, *and* I'm starting to recognize equipment. (My riding buddies seem to identify other riders by what bike they ride, I identify the people. It makes it difficult to put the two together.)
I thought I'd post this since I've regaled all of you with my surgery questions and whatnot over the last few years.
Ride On!
Ginger
I was cruising along all by myself on the Assenmacher 100 and I missed a turn. My buddy who was doing his first century had wandered up and was chatting with some guys and happily disappeared for a while.
So there I was, around mile 50 or so, cruising along the course when these obvious tri guys started passing me. "whoop whooop whoop - thuda thuda thuda (boy, those carbon wheels sure make a lot of noise!). Hmmmm, funny... is there a tri group training on this ride? Seems like there's a lot of them and some of them have forgotten to wash off their numbers. Boy are they fast! I kept pedaling like a normal person and I came up to a set of cones and flaggers who flagged me through the interesection with a "Way to GO GIRL!"
Um...ok...
I continued to ride along a bit distracted by the ffgs and I passed their turn around point. Oh! There's a race out here too! Now I get it! The flagger thought I was a girl racer who was doing really really well. HA!
I pedal a few miles further and realize that I'm out there all by myself in the middle of nowhere. I check the map and the road I just crossed isn't on it anywhere. I pedal further (I've been out in the middle of nowhere and obviously alone on a tour before...but this just wasn't right.) and stopped to ask a local where the road I'm looking for is. "That's about two miles past the last road you crossed." The intersection I was flagged through! Back I go.
I'm almost to the tri turn-around and two more cyclists zip through and head out just like I did. "Assenmacher" "Yeah!" "Wrong WAY"
Hey! The guy's on an OttRott!
I didn't catch his name, but his OttRott is a beautiful bike that stands out of the crowd when you see it out in the world away from all the other OttRotts!
I'm happy to report that my buddy and I finished the century in 6 hours 34 minutes, 15.3mph average. For reference, the last century I rode before my mortocycle accident I finished in 6 hours 39 minutes. So I guess I'm "back" to the point I was before I got smacked! Yay!
So I had two milestones: My first century since the accident in September of 2000, *and* I'm starting to recognize equipment. (My riding buddies seem to identify other riders by what bike they ride, I identify the people. It makes it difficult to put the two together.)
I thought I'd post this since I've regaled all of you with my surgery questions and whatnot over the last few years.
Ride On!
Ginger