Riding a 'bent (was: Anybody ever rend a cycle in Dublin, Ireland?)
Tom Sherman °_°
> [...]
> The only bike I ever rented was a BikeE, because it was the only one I
> ever found for rent that could be adjusted to fit my size. It was
> educational, in that it taught me to avoid BikeEs and other similarly
> ill-conceived bikes from that time forward.
>
You must relax your upper body and only use light forces to steer on a
'bent. I always have new riders hold the bars with only their thumb and
forefinger to prevent over-controlling the bike.
On a proper SWB 'bent, you just think where you want the bike to go, and
it does it.
--
Tom Sherman - 42.435731,-83.985007
I am a vehicular cyclist.
Chalo
>
> Chalo Colina wrote:
> > [...]
> > The only bike I ever rented was a BikeE, because it was the only one I
> > ever found for rent that could be adjusted to fit my size. It was
> > educational, in that it taught me to avoid BikeEs and other similarly
> > ill-conceived bikes from that time forward.
>
> You must relax your upper body and only use light forces to steer on a
> 'bent. I always have new riders hold the bars with only their thumb and
> forefinger to prevent over-controlling the bike.
>
> On a proper SWB 'bent, you just think where you want the bike to go, and
> it does it.
Thanks, Obi-Wan. I'll have to try harder to stretch out with my
feelings.
http://www.wavsource.com/snds_2009-11-08_1707765946369560/movies/star_wars/stretch_out.wav
Chalo
!Jones
�_� <twsherm...@THISsouthslope.net> wrote:
>On a proper SWB 'bent, you just think where you want the bike to go, and
>it does it.
I think I wanna go where there's a cold beer... maybe two! ... aye!
...and the laughter of harlots!
Tom Sherman °_°
> Tom Sherman wrote:
>> Chalo Colina wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> The only bike I ever rented was a BikeE, because it was the only one I
>>> ever found for rent that could be adjusted to fit my size. It was
>>> educational, in that it taught me to avoid BikeEs and other similarly
>>> ill-conceived bikes from that time forward.
>> You must relax your upper body and only use light forces to steer on a
>> 'bent. I always have new riders hold the bars with only their thumb and
>> forefinger to prevent over-controlling the bike.
>>
>> On a proper SWB 'bent, you just think where you want the bike to go, and
>> it does it.
>
> Thanks, Obi-Wan. I'll have to try harder to stretch out with my
> feelings.
>
Yoda
Edward Dolan
"!Jones" <sws...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Beer is for barbarians ... and harlots are too for that matter. We superior
types prefer wine and women of cultivation who will accompany us to the
opera and the ballet. But Jones is not a genius like Ed Dolan the Great. He
is infinitely inferior as witness his degraded taste in liquid refreshment
and females. Alas, he has no powers of discrimination.
Regards,
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
gotbent
"Tom Sherman �_�" <twsherm...@THISsouthslope.net> wrote in message
news:hdafva$sca$1...@news.eternal-september.org...
> Chalo Colina wrote:
>> [...]
>
> On a proper SWB 'bent, you just think where you want the bike to go, and
> it does it.
>
> --
> Tom Sherman - 42.435731,-83.985007
> I am a vehicular cyclist.
I tried that not too long ago. It fell over. Just kidding. When I try that
with my trike, it just sits there.
Somewhere along the way I have to stop thinking and start pedaling.
--
gotbent aka FRT rider
Michael Press
"Edward Dolan" <edo...@iw.net> wrote:
> "!Jones" <sws...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:dghhf5tshkaopm2ji...@4ax.com...
> > On Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:34:41 -0600, in rec.bicycles.tech Tom Sherman
> > °_° <twsherm...@THISsouthslope.net> wrote:
> >
> >>On a proper SWB 'bent, you just think where you want the bike to go, and
> >>it does it.
> >
> > I think I wanna go where there's a cold beer... maybe two! ... aye!
> > ...and the laughter of harlots!
>
> Beer is for barbarians ... and harlots are too for that matter. We superior
> types prefer wine and women of cultivation who will accompany us to the
> opera and the ballet. But Jones is not a genius like Ed Dolan the Great. He
> is infinitely inferior as witness his degraded taste in liquid refreshment
> and females. Alas, he has no powers of discrimination.
Anyone with a modicum of discrimination would notice
that the humour would be weak or nonexistent with
I think I wanna go where there's a glass of wine... maybe two! ... aye!
...and the laughter of women!
--
Michael Press
Edward Dolan
"Michael Press" <rub...@pacbell.net> wrote in message
news:rubrum-B3932D....@news.albasani.net...
Jones thinks he is a wit, or clever, or even a genius - God help us! I am
here to put him in his place, which is infinitely below me.
Obvious humor is for jerks. You have to search to find the humor in the
posts of Ed Dolan the Great because his humor is subtle, if nothing else.