We ride Maizey in RWC Spinning Session

RWC Spinning Session leader Amy Slater invited participants to bring bicycles and training stands to Tuesday's session. I attend regularly, once/week, but Jeanne doesn't. I informed her of this opportunity to do something new and to "show off" by riding Maizey. She accepted. Amy brought her bike and trainer and we were the only others to accept her offer.

Riding Maizey on a training stand, especially our stand which does not have wide stanchions to support it, was very problematic. I constantly felt the steed was leaning, that we were in danger of falling over, and I had to lean to the opposite side. I finally decided the rear wheel had too much freedom to move sideways on the roller. I could honk on the handlebars and bring the frame back vertical. I could do this quite strenuously without feeling unstable

Because of that problem, I was chary of standing when Amy directed us "up" out of the saddle. After I got a handle on verticality, I found I could stand up without exacerbating that problem. Even so I didn't stand much or for long and Jeanne didn't stand at all. We don't stand much on the roads either.

We were out of communication as, with Amy's custom CD playing loudly through speakers, I could not talk over it loud enough for Jeanne to hear me. We had a mechanical problem, the chain moved off the smallest cog into the gap between the cog and dropout and locked. We couldn't talk about it. I grabbed a paper towel to handle the chain back onto the cog and we got "rolling" again.

In the car after the session, we agreed there is far too much overhead in racking and unracking Maizey to do this weekly but it was fun to do it this one time.