Let’s Ride Bikes!
We collected our bikes today, so we had to go and find a nicely deserted car park to try them out on. Flat, and nobody around to laugh when we fell off.
Neither of us fell off, and we managed to go from rolling along with our feet on the ground, to riding a little way along the road and back. We’ll probably do something similar again tomorrow, before we start working up to actually riding in public.
Once we’d done riding, I took the chance to get some photos of the bikes and Sam:
If the slideshow doesn’t work for you, you can just go and see the photos on Flickr.
Bike riding is easy once you get your butt callused and used to the seat (at least with my old, old bike).
Sam looks really good!
It made my legs hurt. I think my saddle needs to be higher, but I want to be a bit more confident before I get any further from the ground!
Thanks for your compliment there Diane. I do feel a little self-conscious when I’m riding, but I’m rather more concerned about staying on the thing. It’s an interesting experience, picking it up after all these years, and after the first time I managed to do a little pedalling, I did get a bit emotional.
Breaking down lots of little barriers like this at the moment, and I’ll be talking more about that over at my other blog soon!
Landrover? We’re looking at the four-wheel drive bike here then.
Land Rover say 4×4 for their off-roaders – the company that makes the bikes is called 2×2 Worldwide – presumably they mean two wheel drive.
There’s still only one wheel driven, though, and that’s driven by my legs. As power sources go, it’s pretty similar to those 1.5v motors I used to play with as a kid – the ones you can stop with one finger.