Next thing you know that bird in the bush'll be worth millions!

[nny]

Dude, riding a bike is so completely not just like riding a bike, man. I can barely get on the thing. Hoping to make a start on fixing that this weekend, providing she doesn't get nicked from our lobby first. I'm hoping the U-lock will hold her until I get to Asda tomorrow to buy a chain to attach her to the stairs. :D

(Yeah, she's definitely a she - Raleigh Vixen, metallic purple, purdy. I'm thinking I might call her Ziva, but I'm open to other suggestions...)

Comments

[la_rainette]

OK, I totally missed the second bike in the first sentence.

What I read was therefore riding a bike is so completely not just like riding a man, which, needless to say, startled me rather a lot.

I believe I need a nap. Yes.

[nny]

I WOULDN'T KNOW!

XD

[forthwritten]

Yay, bikes! I only started properly cycling in September; a friend of mine gave me a crash course when I visited her in Germany for a week, but it was only a couple of months ago that I started cycling to university and to the shops. I can now cycle with a rucksack of food on my back and a carrier bag hanging off the handlebars without a horrific accident (touch wood), and if you've seen my co-ordination you'd know this is a tiny miracle :D

Anyway, it's ace.

Also, hello - I saw you on my network page and thought you looked interesting.

[nny]

Hee, I'm hoping I can get to the 'able to cycle' stage, although considering that 'able to walk', with my balance, is kind of in question, we shall see.

And hi back! I looked at your profile - with the linguistics, and the tea, and the beautiful stained glass on the icon - and I kind of blinked at the fact that we'd never met before. You seem like an AU version of me! XD

[forthwritten]

Sometimes I actually feel more able to cycle than walk. That's bad, right?

Hee! I read your post on gay as a pejorative and decided that I needed to subscribe to you :D

[neo-prodigy.livejournal.com]

lol. good luck.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Hee, thanks! If you never hear from me again, assume I met my maker on a really snazzy bike. XD

[lady-twatterby.livejournal.com]

LOL, have you never ridden a bike before?? XD

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I have! Just... not for about 16, 17 years. I'm sure I'll pick it up again quickly, I was just wobbling about in front of Peoples so I got embarrassed and stopped pretty quickly. XD

[klatubarada.livejournal.com]

Oh man.
I just got a flashback

New bike 2003(red/yellow flames on it called it Firebolt dude!)-gonna get fit i say.*sigh*

I kept up with my 2 jogging flatmates for forty minutes (so! proud) until my untightened seat collapses 2 inches.
I jerk the handles go out of control into someones front garden (at speed) cracking an ornamental urn and catching my (old and LOOSE)trackies in the pedals as the bike went DOWN.

Bike on floor +trackies tangled in them = me in my (worst)knickers .
The postman reading the paper directly opposite sitting in his van was literally convulsing with screams of laughter.I could hear him.:(
true story...

Nny, check ya seat before ya fly luv, good luck :D

[villainny.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

That was my sympathetic laugh, honest!

XD

My seat is well and truly fixed, and a nifty looking gel saddle! I think mostly I got tugged off balance by the beer I bought...

[klatubarada.livejournal.com]

oh thats me screwing up the posting :D lol

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Dude, riding a bike is so completely not just like riding a bike, man.

Pwah!

Okay, yes. Quite true.

Posts like these are why I read you.

[lady-twatterby.livejournal.com]

The good thing is that indeed you don't really unlearn it. It's simply about refinding your balance (this is not a phrase from a yoga book). Also, it helps having a bike the right size. It's amazing how many people get it wrong, even in Holland! XD

And you could never be as bad as my mum's American friend, whom we seriously had to steer for, so she could just focus on staying upright XD