JerseyJim
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if you follow YouTube cycling channels you'll know Tyler, The Vegan Cyclist. Tyler published a video of his experience in the Garden State Grand Fondo and the days leading up to the event. On the Thursday before the Grand Fondo, he joined the roadie club ride at my local park. I'm usually there several days a week, and I particularly like Thursdays. While I've ridden the back of the roadie peloton once or twice, I usually stick to my own training regimen. Still, with more cyclists in the park on Thursdays, traffic and people are more aware of us. Safety in numbers as they say.
For me it was just another routine ride. Until i saw this video I had no idea Tyler was there. Apparently he was just as surprised to see me as he took the time to edit a pan & zoom and then an operating system crash effect with me in the frame. It was a bit surreal to be sitting there watching and then see myself on screen.
It was all in good fun and I had a laugh. I've been a VC fan for a long while. He does excellent work. His cycling content is some of the best on YouTube. The one thing this illustrates though is that despite all the success of recumbents in general and Cruzbike in particular, people still react as though they are strange, bizzare, otherworldly creatures. I guess the only way to remedy that is to get out there on the road as much as possible. I can tell you that perhaps some of the roadies in my park might have thought my Cruzbike was strange when they first saw it, but now I regularly have some of them drafting off me when Im doing my laps. I call that acceptance. I call that progress. So a big Thank You to our YouTuber friend from California. There's no such thing as bad publicity.
You're not familiar with The Vegan Cyclist, check him out on YouTube.
A link to the Garden State Grand Fondo video:
Regards,
Jim
For me it was just another routine ride. Until i saw this video I had no idea Tyler was there. Apparently he was just as surprised to see me as he took the time to edit a pan & zoom and then an operating system crash effect with me in the frame. It was a bit surreal to be sitting there watching and then see myself on screen.
It was all in good fun and I had a laugh. I've been a VC fan for a long while. He does excellent work. His cycling content is some of the best on YouTube. The one thing this illustrates though is that despite all the success of recumbents in general and Cruzbike in particular, people still react as though they are strange, bizzare, otherworldly creatures. I guess the only way to remedy that is to get out there on the road as much as possible. I can tell you that perhaps some of the roadies in my park might have thought my Cruzbike was strange when they first saw it, but now I regularly have some of them drafting off me when Im doing my laps. I call that acceptance. I call that progress. So a big Thank You to our YouTuber friend from California. There's no such thing as bad publicity.
You're not familiar with The Vegan Cyclist, check him out on YouTube.
A link to the Garden State Grand Fondo video:
Regards,
Jim
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