Yes, but your friend cannot steer the bike/bent without his vision.
A Seeing Eye dog might work but if it was distracted the rider would be following where the dog
goes, tree, fire hydrant, chasing a cat through the garden of Cacti.
Seeing Eye dogs are trained to ignore almost all distractions (except one) and that would be the
Dreaded-Hot-Horney-[censored] with the Pink Leather collar. Your seeing eye dog knows you cannot see him
and what he is doing and what doogie can resist some hot roadside luvin. Dog looks at you on your
bent..looks at FeeFee strutting her stuff with her tail in the air...he looks at you...looks at
FeeFee, you just know you are going to be sitting on your bent in park waiting for your pooch to
finish making FeeFee howl like a Banshee and what if FeeFee plays hard to get and dashes across 6
lanes of rush hour traffic with your dog and you in hot pursuit.
Last Saturday noon I was riding down University Ave at a good clip (street slopes down a bit). I
then get something in my right eye. I only have one eye and so I hit the brake (back brake wasn't
connected). I glide to a stop, take out my water bottle of Ice Water and splash water in eye and
wipe with a towel...vision restored....I seem to have come to a complete stop in the middle of a
busy intersection. All the cars took me in stride and drove around me like it was normal to see a
guy parked on a bent in the middle of a very busy intersection.
But anyone who is blind would face the same problem of never knowing were he is riding or where he
has come to a stop and how would he know he has got to where he was going ?
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Quoted message said:Joshua Goldberg said:cycling can be done by people with all kids of physical disabilities
except
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:for 2 biggies, no vision and no arms.
I'm not sure about the armless ones, but my mate Bob is a keen cyclist (and an expert bike
mechanic and wheelbuilder) despite having absolutely no vision whatsoever. He rides a tandem and
a group of us take it in turns to take the captain's seat. Bob, of course, is in the Admiral's
seat :-)
Guy
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