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Fast Bike Group bike-fast@

This is: http://www.berklix.org/bike-fast

Bike-Fast@ list is for a small minority, (some of whom may also be on Normal Bike List). Most on the Fast list would agree most below.

• Speed & Distance
  • We go faster than 90% or more of other cyclists.
  • We go further
  • We don't hang back, worrying the group if we're lost, or about to be if we miss a turn.
  • We dislike too much stony & forest tracks as too slow, bumpy, unstable on narrow tyres, risk of puncture.
  • Stops: We want occasional rest/ beer/ food stops, eg occasional beer gardens, perhaps 2 or 3 a day, not 6 a day like some boozers in another club ;-).
  • We do not make frequent short stops for hopeless tail enders who would slow us forever.
• Equipment
  • We don't consider 3 gear clunkers (city bikes) or fat tyred bikes as acceptable bikes.
    We use tourer bikes, (None of us have carbon fibre striped down ultra light frames etc, though no objection if you have)
  • We know that if someone must, most unfortunately, ride a a mountain bike, it's not appropriate for our tours, & must without question have a solid centre line, & needs to be pumped up damn hard, else don't join us.
  • We know toe clips & shoes fitted to pedals provide more power (even if not all have learnt to use them)
  • We're Not tour de France types, or fashion trendies, None of us use tight Lycra shorts & gaudy multi coloured fashion clothing.
• Self Reliant - Not a nuisance or deterent to others organising.
  • We cycle our bikes to departure point, ready for high speed departure, not with bad brakes bell tyres etc hoping someone else will set up.
  • We can & do mend/ service/ adjust our own lights, brakes, gears, bell, saddle, carrier etc
  • We can read a map, compass & the sun, & not get lost on our own.
  • We always carry own pumps; We pump up our own tyres hard so as not delay others with slower speed, We do Not foolishly rely on getting group to divert or delay via petrol stations for air pumps.
  • We can change our own inner tubes &/or mend own punctures