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Even assuming he was on an ebike and assuming it was legal which i'd guess it was,( i suspect derestricting a bafang mid drive will be easy but not a factory bike...but i may be wrong)...the road ebike would cut out at 15.5.Nothing humiliating about such an obviously gimped contraption. What gets my goat is many of these road bikes are electric but incredibly subtle with it. I was pushing a hard 20mph and overtook a road cyclist. Some time later on the same long stretch I hear the sound of his freewheel ratcheting right behind me, then stopping, then again. Kept doing it to obviously be a prat. I was puffing away flat out perhaps losing a bit of speed and then suddenly he overtakes and just seemingly keeps accellerating like a UFO > 25 mph. By looking at him and his bike you wouldn't know a thing. Maybe he was Chris Froome after all?
How would you have reacted if it was an elderly gentleman and not a woman on the bike?
Lots of blokes on bikes seem to get offended if I pass them and just have to speed up and get past (presumably so their poor shrivelled manhood is restored)
Granted this happens less often than male riders passing me
I wonder how fast VP is, these days? She's 40 this year, which really shocked me. Tempus fugit and all that.
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Probably still quick enough to comprehensively dust most of us on hereI wonder how fast VP is, these days? She's 40 this year, which really shocked me. Tempus fugit and all that.
Exactly the same as me. 10 miles was a struggle then all of a sudden we cycled to Utrecht and as you say, always someone to carry the load and take the wind.Having an Ebike, my wife is able to come on long rides where she was only able to do 10 miles before.
Now she can do 45 miles in relative comfort. We average 12-14mph, I draft her when its a strong headwind
They trundle along at a sedate 5mph ish.. Even I could keep up with it 🏁It's not the old ladies that I find humiliating: