Day: July 9, 2005

Coffee, Coffee, Coffee

(You’ve got to sing it, kind of like the “I am evil Ho-mer” song from the Simpsons)
Continue reading 25 things I love about the bike – #18

Training Wheels

There’s not a lot to them. And, in fact, they teach a lot of bad habits such as discouraging leaning into turns, riding slow without weight centered. They make it difficult to get out of the saddle to climb effectively – as soon as a rider really mashes on a pedal, she shifts onto the wheel on that side, lifting the rear wheel off the ground, and either spinning the rear wheel without producing forward movement, or going too fall and falling.

But they’re there. And they do a darn fine job of getting riders from the unstable world of two wheels standing still to the stability, freedom, and flight of flying down the (road, trail, etc) with the wonders of gyroscopic stabilization.
Continue reading 25 things I love about the bike – #19