Things I've learnt this week...

paul said:

I can't track stand a 'bent, come to that I can't go very
very slowly either. It's not far to fall though 🙂

Going very very slowly will come with practice. I can manage
2mph easily enough.

Track standing will probably never happen.

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I can't spin fast enough to use the granny gear

Just wait until you find a really good hill ...

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I've got musles that hold my head up (ouch)

Probably quite fortunate, really.

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Quoted message said:

paul said:

I can't track stand a 'bent, come to that I can't go
very very slowly either. It's not far to fall though 🙂

Going very very slowly will come with practice. I can
manage 2mph easily enough.

Track standing will probably never happen.

Quoted message said:

I can't spin fast enough to use the granny gear

Just wait until you find a really good hill ...

Quoted message said:

I've got musles that hold my head up (ouch)

Probably quite fortunate, really.

All of which makes me wonder, is anyone riding fixed
on a 'bent?
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stable dimensionally but you can deform the trousers
quite happily."
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Quoted message said:

paul said:

I can't track stand a 'bent, come to that I can't go
very very slowly either. It's not far to fall though 🙂

Going very very slowly will come with practice. I can
manage 2mph easily enough.

Track standing will probably never happen.

Quoted message said:

I can't spin fast enough to use the granny gear

Just wait until you find a really good hill ...

that was the cause of one particularly graceful fall.
I changed down to the granny and went to slow to
balance. bough...

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

I've got musles that hold my head up (ouch)

Probably quite fortunate, really.

Yes, but i don't think they're supposed to remind you of it
quite so vociforously of their existence... the ordered head
rest should help if it ever arrives 🙁

did i mention how much fun it is though :oD

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the sport for you.

Mark South said:

All of which makes me wonder, is anyone riding fixed on
a 'bent?

I doubt it, though there was one many years ago, the Mini
Micro Missile IIRC, which was pedalled by Doug Malewicki's
young daughter Michelle to about 30 mph. Googles. Ah. It was
actually a prone.

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Quoted message said:

All of which makes me wonder, is anyone riding fixed on
a 'bent?

I jokingly suggested it to Eddie when we met up, but even
my sick mind won't contemplate the idea. My feeling at
present is that bents are far more reliant on a range of
gears than uprights.

As for trackstanding one. I'm sure that if I declare it
impossible someone will prove me wrong but... go on then!

Jon

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Quoted message said:

As for trackstanding one. I'm sure that if I declare it
impossible someone will prove me wrong but... go on then!

There are a number which are low enough to the ground that
you only need reach down with one hand to keep yourself
upright. Not technically a trackstand, but near enough!

Graeme

Jon Senior jon@restlesslemon_DOT_co_DOT_uk.remove said:

As for trackstanding one. I'm sure that if I declare it
impossible someone will prove me wrong but... go on then!

I can remmain stationary on one spot pretty much
indefinitely on mine...

regards, Ian SMith
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Ian Smith said:

On Thu, 24 Jun, Jon Senior

jon@restlesslemon_DOT_co_DOT_uk.remove said:

As for trackstanding one. I'm sure that if I declare
it impossible someone will prove me wrong but... go
on then!

I can remmain stationary on one spot pretty much
indefinitely on mine...

ISTR yours is a trike?

If I'm wrong, I will be impressed (and ask for
instructions).

AC

Ian Smith said:

I can remmain stationary on one spot pretty much
indefinitely on mine...

Yeah, but I think riding with a stabiliser is cheating :-P

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Quoted message said:

There are a number which are low enough to the ground that
you only need reach down with one hand to keep yourself
upright. Not technically a trackstand, but near enough!

Seen those! They look really good fun. Blatently built for
speed when your [censored] is 3mm off the floor!

Jon

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Senior <jon_AT_restlesslemon_DOTco_DOT_uk> says...

Quoted message said:

Seen those! They look really good fun. Blatently built for
speed when your [censored] is 3mm off the floor!

Jon

not much fun when your [censored] is ON the floor, as mine has
been on far too many ocasions over the last week 🙂

The weather seems to have slowly deteriorated since I bought
it home 🙁
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If at first you don't succeed... Skydiving is probably not
the sport for you.

Jon Senior said:

As for trackstanding one. I'm sure that if I declare it
impossible someone will prove me wrong but... go on then!

I've done a trackstand on a trice. Does that count?

Tony ;-)

Tony Raven [email hidden] opined the following...

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I've done a trackstand on a trice. Does that count?

Only if I can include the use of stabilisers as a child! ;-)

Jon

Jon Senior said:

As for trackstanding one. I'm sure that if I declare it
impossible someone will prove me wrong but... go on then!

Not quite trackstanding, but I have seen one Martin Staubach
turning one through about 180 degrees at a standstill by
bouncing the rear wheel off the ground. It looked pretty
similar to this one:

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