the GOT bike

Having adopted bar middles as my personal savior, it's been a long time since I've ridden drop bars. I have kept a road bike with them, as it's far more benign to bump bars in a group when the tips point backwards, but I'm pretty sure I haven't ridden my road bike in the time since I was hit by a car in 2022. My new old Raleigh Super Course is definitely a road bike, complete with classic drops. I was contemplating converting it to flats, especially since it has a surprisingly roomy reach, but it didn't seem right to not ride it at least once with drop bars before committing myself to eternal damnation, or at least purgatory, by putting mountain bike bars on a classic road bike. And no, my test ride down the the mailbox and back didn't count. The bike spent the winter in Ben's basement in Northampton, and I was considering cruising the Norwattuck Rail Trail that way as an inaugural jaunt, so I checked with Ben to see if he'd want to meet for a gentle...