Re: Why Do People Fall Down?

"Prisoner at War" <prisoner_at_war@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> On Oct 27, 5:10 pm, "gotbent" <gotb...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I think it is something you just have to experience. The fun quotient
is
>> enormous.
>
>
> You mean there's a different kind of 'bent-smile with trikes???
>
> They're so low on the ground, I dunno...definitely not for urban
> environs, which my SMGTe handles quite well 99% of the time.
>

Too low to the ground? I've had people in gigantic landbarges stopped next

to me at a traffic light and shout out of their window at me that I was
too 
low to see. I ask them who they're talking to. "You", they answer. I tell 
them that either they're crazy for talking to something invisible, or I'm 
not invisible after all. I don't think most of them get it.

I know a fellow that used to ride a NoCom in Chicago, on the streets! I
know 
a another fellow that rode a Bacchetta Strada in Chicago, too. He got hit
by 
a car, as high and visible as he was.

I own your bike's cousin, the Speedmachine. She can be a trecherous *****
at 
times. Mostly a quick and comfortable ride, but let your attention waver
for 
a moment and you'll find yourself dumped, unceremoniuosly, out on your
ass. 
I admit to being a member of the clan klutz and I don't chew gum and walk 
simultaneously and remaining in control on two wheels is not totally 
intuitive for me. I admit to hammering through turns more consertvatively 
than excellent bike handlers, but still, I go through the twisties a lot 
faster than the average schmo I pass on the bike trail.

The trike takes the balance thing right out of the equation. On the trike
I 
pedal like mad and all I need to do is pay attention to what's around  me.
I 
ride with a friend on Wednesday nights, usually a few blocks away from his

house in the land of garage-mahals and green lawns and smooth low traffic 
streets. We do five mile circuitous loops. The first time, a few weeks
ago, 
when we did the ride with lights I noticed that my cheeks hurt. The ride
was 
so much fun that I was unconsciously grinning in the dark.

I'm not a bent newbe either. I bought my first bent in '99. I still have a

SM and an Earthcycles Sunset and I bought a Trice in February and I ride 
about 2000-3000 miles a year. 



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