no prizes for guessing what I got for Christmas
How often have you heard "it's just like riding a bike - you don't forget" Hah! Turns out you can forget. Not entirely, but you do forget a few things. Like just how fast these things go, how high you are up off the ground, how to stop..... That last one especially. When I last rode a bike, 43 years ago, bikes had back-pedal brakes. Going too fast? Just back-pedal a half turn until the pedals stop and the bike slows down. Nowadays, most bikes have handbrakes instead, and I'm having a little trouble getting used to them. On this >>>> >>> beautiful machine that my kids gave me two days ago. I've ridden it twice so far, just around the driveways and paths of the housing complex. I can't go out on the roads until I buy a helmet, which I will do on Friday. Even then it will be some time before I'm game enough to tackle a main road, there's so much more traffic now than there was back then and it moves so muc...