Mike Owen
Member
With huge swathes of most continents now in various states of extended lockdown, many folk on here will be experiencing something they and none of their forebears have known before.
Going for a bike ride just changed a whole lot.
Perhaps it would be interesting and maybe even therapeutic to share experiences amongst R&M riders.
Possibly this isn’t the correct EBR Forum area to initiate this thread. However R&M and it’s riders seem to me to be a bit of a distinct collective. Open to something new and avant-garde if you will. Your perspective of this new world might be worthy of sharing. A phenomenal image might inspire.
What are you experiencing and feeling? What is your fab bike allowing you to do or achieve? Have you got something inspiring to tell, that might encourage others going through a testing time?
On another thread Chris Nolte related his eerie feeling of an urban wilderness ride on his Delite Mountain through Long Beach last weekend.
I’ll start the ball rolling. I may get slapped down or folk may feel this is not the time and place, and this thread may fill with tumbleweed, but what the heck... have a go.
I’m in the north of England. In the countryside. All of a sudden a super calm and quiet countryside that feels like it’s now the 1700s: but without the clip clop of horses hooves; but with an iPad delivered tsunami of harrowing world news.
3 days into our Lockdown, not been on a bike ride. Just fretting about supplies to survive and avoiding contact at all costs (that jars). Spent those 3 days on long walks under an astonishingly clear sky. Seen one jet in the sky and I’m under the Europe - North America flight path! Even those walks are starting to feel stressed. We are allowed out once a day for exercise: a walk, a run or a bike ride. But you walk a long way and you get the sense that it’s wrong. “Folk think this is a holiday” said one farmer who good-naturedly turned us back ‘cos he was freaked by all the walkers who had been going through his farmstead and had resorted to disinfecting his gates. It feels the countryside may be closing soon.
The odd eBiker or acoustic biker passes by the house now and then, whereas normally in this weather groups of club racers would be a common sight, as would loads of couples and family groups riding.
I don’t even have my R&M bike here. It’s trapped on the other side of the country for the duration. A two month old Load 60 Vario GX Dual just sitting there in my brothers house. While he is here with me until July, September, who knows?. The other piece of my R&M jigsaw puzzle, a Chilli Matt Delite E14 GX is somewhere? Somewhere between Mühltal and a bike shop in York. A shop hopefully still trading when it appears.
A fantastic bike trapped. A new dream machine somewhere. Awesome skies. Even awesomer empty trails and lanes. But a local population on edge, braced for impending doom. And tragically fellow humans in dire straits.
There has never been a time like this. And I hope for everyone there never will be again.
Long spiel! Maybe you have an inspiring one liner?
Going for a bike ride just changed a whole lot.
Perhaps it would be interesting and maybe even therapeutic to share experiences amongst R&M riders.
Possibly this isn’t the correct EBR Forum area to initiate this thread. However R&M and it’s riders seem to me to be a bit of a distinct collective. Open to something new and avant-garde if you will. Your perspective of this new world might be worthy of sharing. A phenomenal image might inspire.
What are you experiencing and feeling? What is your fab bike allowing you to do or achieve? Have you got something inspiring to tell, that might encourage others going through a testing time?
On another thread Chris Nolte related his eerie feeling of an urban wilderness ride on his Delite Mountain through Long Beach last weekend.
I’ll start the ball rolling. I may get slapped down or folk may feel this is not the time and place, and this thread may fill with tumbleweed, but what the heck... have a go.
I’m in the north of England. In the countryside. All of a sudden a super calm and quiet countryside that feels like it’s now the 1700s: but without the clip clop of horses hooves; but with an iPad delivered tsunami of harrowing world news.
3 days into our Lockdown, not been on a bike ride. Just fretting about supplies to survive and avoiding contact at all costs (that jars). Spent those 3 days on long walks under an astonishingly clear sky. Seen one jet in the sky and I’m under the Europe - North America flight path! Even those walks are starting to feel stressed. We are allowed out once a day for exercise: a walk, a run or a bike ride. But you walk a long way and you get the sense that it’s wrong. “Folk think this is a holiday” said one farmer who good-naturedly turned us back ‘cos he was freaked by all the walkers who had been going through his farmstead and had resorted to disinfecting his gates. It feels the countryside may be closing soon.
The odd eBiker or acoustic biker passes by the house now and then, whereas normally in this weather groups of club racers would be a common sight, as would loads of couples and family groups riding.
I don’t even have my R&M bike here. It’s trapped on the other side of the country for the duration. A two month old Load 60 Vario GX Dual just sitting there in my brothers house. While he is here with me until July, September, who knows?. The other piece of my R&M jigsaw puzzle, a Chilli Matt Delite E14 GX is somewhere? Somewhere between Mühltal and a bike shop in York. A shop hopefully still trading when it appears.
A fantastic bike trapped. A new dream machine somewhere. Awesome skies. Even awesomer empty trails and lanes. But a local population on edge, braced for impending doom. And tragically fellow humans in dire straits.
There has never been a time like this. And I hope for everyone there never will be again.
Long spiel! Maybe you have an inspiring one liner?
Last edited:
food.
.
