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.

Quoted message said:

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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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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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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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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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:

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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Graeme [email hidden] opined the following...

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

In article <[email hidden]>, Jon Senior
<jon_AT_restlesslemon_DOTco_DOT_uk> says...

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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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..paul

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:

<URL: http://www.kreuzotter.de/english/edm91kurv.htm>

!

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