A reminder

I went out for a ride this evening. The heat has been dying off in the later afternoons along with the daylight. I figured I better get out there and make the most of what I have before it is no longer a possibility.

I started out on my normal warm up and then headed for a decent gradual climb, that ends at a mountain bike trail head. As I neared the end of the climb, I noticed some cyclist ahead shooting the breeze. I rode past them to the end of the road and then circled around and started to head past them. They returned my hello, so I stopped and had a chat with them. We introduced ourselves and right away I picked up on the type 2 of the 4 were. They were both on Trek road bikes and were talking like they were the greatest as if Lance had rode their bikes personally to 7 straight Tour wins. All of their stuff was high end from their bikes to their clothes to their shoes. And I can definitely tell you that it wasn't because Specialized gave them their high end shoes. Or Mavic gave the Ksyrium wheels. Or Trek even gave them frames.

They started looking at my bike and right away were giving me compliments on how they were impressed with it. I gave them my story of how I had it custom built and such, from a REAL bike shop not something they call a bike shop here in good 'Ol Farmington. I told them that it weighed in at 16.5 pounds when it was shipped to me. One of them piped in right away and said his only weighed 16.4 pounds and he had a triple on it. I told them that I could have made my bike lighter than that but what was the point? I will never compete in a UCI race and even if I were to, I would not be the weight I am today. Not to mention that the guy with the lighter bike was my same height and much heavier than myself.

As we headed down the road, the two of them as in true Farmington fashion started sprinting like they were headed down the Galibier racing into Grenoble. The Galibier is one of may famous climbs in the Tour de France. Anyways, the father was talking to me while going down the road, and there was no traffic. So I was just coasting with my hands off the bars. Hey said that there was no way he would ever do that! I told him everyone has the limits of being comfortable on the bike. Needless to say he didn't like my answer and quit talking. So I shifted down a few more gears and went flying past his son and never looked back until I hit the light at the end of the road and realized they had turned off about a mile up the road and were not interested in riding with me back up two other short climbs to get back to where we were both headed.

I was relieved honestly. Those are 2 guys out of many here in town that think they are just so cool. They are the kind that you pass on the road and don't even give you a friendly wave back to acknowledge you. I just have this to say to them, they have no clue what cycling is all about! Trek bikes suck! It's funny that Durango is such a town overwhelmed with cycling and cyclists and it is so close yet so different. However you don't have the same mentality there as you do there vs. here with cyclists. And they have many pro cyclist that live there! Farmington has zero!

Okay enough of my rambling. A reminder to myself! The majority of Farmington cyclists suck, that is why you do not have any one to ride with. Probably any cyclist around here that is worth anything has already figured this out and made the choice, just as I have to just get out there and ride alone! I just miss my world of cycling that I was first introduced to and they guys that introduced me to it.