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rinds best sitter is best bikerOver the coffee By DONALD KAULThe Great Six-Day Bike Bide has ended. I don’t care if I never see a bicycle again.By never, I mean three days.You know, people train badly for long bike rides. They ride' out into the country and try to go fast up hills. They give up smoking. They jog. They buy expensive bikes.None of that is where it's at. Where it's at is the seat.What separates the big-time riders from the Sunday afternoon Good-Time Charlies is the ability to sit for long periods of time on narrow, hard surfaces.The next time I plan a long bike ride I’m going to practice for it by sitting on picket fences.Like Coach Vince Lombardi once said:“You have to learn to sit with pain. A bicycle club is only as strong as itsweakest backside.”*Still the Great Bike Ride was a success and it was fun to be a part of it.*Those of you out there who missed it, missed something good.—There—are—certain—lessons—to—be learned from the Great Bike Ride experience. Here are a few that occur:1.—There are a good many ding-a-ling drivers on the road.While the overwhelming majority ofririvprs wpri* nvprwhplminrflv nnlito tn
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Des Moines Register
Des Moines, Iowa, US
Sun, Sep 02, 1973
Page 67
Full Page
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