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Monday, October 19, 2009 at 01:21 PM
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...to me! Four years ago today that I first successfully rode a bicycle for the first time. Raleigh M-80, steel frame, from about 1995. Still ride the bike, used as a commuter and errand bike now.
Started trying to learn in August 2005. Took me until Oct. 19. By which time I had read everything in the library about bicycles and riding them, and had overhauled three machines and acquired several more.
The secret was to get on and hang on without dabbing a foot down -- to trust to balance. In a single word, trust.
Life changing? Actually in small ways it has been. In the perspective of a few years, riding a bicycle was more significant than graduating from college the first time. Less significant than marriage, but important. |
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