[CR]Re: Another silly moment or two...

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From: "brucerobbins" <brucerobbins@supanet.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
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Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 00:28:54 +0100
Subject: [CR]Re: Another silly moment or two...

I'd love to share my silly moments with you all but I'm so perfect I haven't had any yet! Unless you count the time last year when I mounted my fixed gear bike for the first time...

With my two sons (aged 8 and 10) watching, I put my right foot in the toe clip and, with the bike moving slowly, tried to repeat the feat with my left foot. Coincidently, I managed it at the exact same moment that I ran out of momentum. The problem was that I couldn't get a foot out in time to prevent the sideways topple known as the "dying swan".

With my sons now splitting their sides, I tried again, craftily going in the opposite, slightly downhill, direction. I got my right foot in no bother but the next couple of hundred yards were spent furiously following the pedal around with my left in a desperate attempt to "engage", the toe clip all the while scraping off the ground.

But these don't really count as silly moments, do they? I prefer to think of them as character forming.

Cheers, Bruce "who still has all his teeth but not much pride" Robbins