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Out'n about... just not Climbing => Biking => Topic started by: mudworm on May 06, 2007, 09:44:25 PM
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Desperate for a crash course, I went for WOMBATS (http://www.wombats.org/) Level I Clinic. It's taught by Jacquie Phelan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquie_Phelan). I had just read an interview with her in DirtRag Magazine. She in person is as eccentric as she is in paper. Two hours were spent in a court yard and a parking lot in Fairfax learning track stand, tight turns, hopping the front wheel, etc. Then I rode with her into the hills on the back side of Mt. Tam. It is amazing how at ease she is on her bike -- an old bike without any suspension. She then took me to her house. We had a good chat there. Her husband, Charlie Cunningham (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Cunningham), very kindly gave me a tour of his workshop where many innovative bike frames and components were born.
It was a great day.
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Jacquie shows us her home made arm warmer.
(http://climbermei.smugmug.com/photos/150309045-S.jpg)
She rides around with her tambourine. She played it when we rested after our ride up the mountain.
(http://climbermei.smugmug.com/photos/150304325-S.jpg)