'Cuz basketball courts in the summer got girls there.
I didn't think you could improve on turning corners on your bike with no hands, but you can! Even better than turning corners on your bike with no hands is turning corners on your bike with no hands in front of two cute boys. I should just start thanking the judges and being gracious to the losers, 'cause this day is done and won.
posted by Megan at 6:04 PM
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You'll have to make it a regular performance so the boys know where to find you :-)
Leanin to the side, but you can't speed through. Two miles an hour so everybody sees you...
I'm sure some falls are in my future. I'll be grateful if I don't break an arm.
We should ride bikes out together, although it is hard to turn corners with no hands in unison.
My little brother did some impressive performances unwittingly. He drove his bike without brakes, so when a car came by he simply used the expedient of jamming his foot in the spokes of the wheel, quickly bringing the bike to a stop with a somersault.
The surprising thing is that he did this on TWO SEPARATE occasions. He might have done it a third time had the bike survived the second. He himself, except for some pretty bad mashing of the foot, escaped uninjured.
You know, despite all the 1000s of miles I put on my super cool, bright yellow Treak 2300 road bike, despite the fact that I was on it for at least an hour a day during the summer for years, I never did learn to ride it with no hands. The tires were really skinny, it always just felt very precarious.
I can ride my mountain bike with no hands though.
Justin
"cause the day is done and won"
you win bryn's quote of the week
last week's was a guy at the conference I was at describing his boss as "a maelstrom of uselessness"
There's something way too cool about no hands riding. Getting the nerve to do it the first time is way harder than doing it thereafter.
Actually, riding no hands is now my default; I prefer it to riding with hands. Chris said I was showing off, but I wasn't even thinking about it. I'd say that took a couple months to transition over, but now I sit up as soon as I have any momentum and I notice Ali does the same.
There's an S-curve (up into the alley, then back on the sidewalk) near my house that I'm working on.
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