01-28-2018, 10:51 AM
Guth, I'm not particularly fast. Never claimed to be. I've done more than enough track days and all-day rides on "race" roads with AMA professional racers to disabuse me of such notions, not that I ever had any in the first place. I was only a middle-of-the-pack Group A rider. The truly fast guys smoked me.
About all I would admit to these days is being faster than most street riders, which isn't saying much. I would say I'm slower now than I was in my twenties and thirties, simply based on diminished stamina. I'm out of practice now, so my legs eventually get shaky, whereas when I was younger I could put in two hundred-mile days at Laguna Seca or Sears Point and never get tired.
These days, a decent run on Mosquito Ridge will test my legs. I'm no heavier now than I was back in my twenties, but I'm definitely weaker.
Also, I sit up and relax on the straights now.
In any case, the purchase of the CB isn't so much an admission that I'm slowing down as much as it's an admission that I really ought to slow down. I want to slow down.
About all I would admit to these days is being faster than most street riders, which isn't saying much. I would say I'm slower now than I was in my twenties and thirties, simply based on diminished stamina. I'm out of practice now, so my legs eventually get shaky, whereas when I was younger I could put in two hundred-mile days at Laguna Seca or Sears Point and never get tired.
These days, a decent run on Mosquito Ridge will test my legs. I'm no heavier now than I was back in my twenties, but I'm definitely weaker.
Also, I sit up and relax on the straights now.
In any case, the purchase of the CB isn't so much an admission that I'm slowing down as much as it's an admission that I really ought to slow down. I want to slow down.