tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post3081384005727012223..comments2024-03-11T19:40:23.089+00:00Comments on Views from the bike shed: Collections 12 - BikesThe bike shedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05195882998271591934noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-27232744155721335352010-03-22T20:45:17.994+00:002010-03-22T20:45:17.994+00:00Commiserations on the cracked rib...so much discom...Commiserations on the cracked rib...so much discomfort from something that looks like nothing on the x ray sheet.<br />Just try not to breath!<br /><br />I can't ride a bike...I put it down to balance problems after a middle ear infection as a child..but it means I don't get seasick either!<br /><br />Riding was always my pleasure - the horse saw to the balancing bit for me - and I would dearly love to start again, but I don't want to be confined to bridle paths so this clearly isn't the area for a canter across the moors!<br /><br />I'll have to move.<br /><br />Oh. My word verification was 'wingless' - so clearly I'm not getting Pegasus as the answer to my problems.the fly in the webhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04563871975125538755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-43600728431148069232010-03-22T12:19:21.149+00:002010-03-22T12:19:21.149+00:00I love riding my bike. As with you, it was my fre...I love riding my bike. As with you, it was my freedom when young. I still have that bike, an old 5-speed racer bought for 5 quid at a police auction. It has had a new everything except the frame, I think, over the years.<br /><br />just recently (a couple of years ago) I bought fancy new road bike, one that I can explore the countryside in. But the garden has taken too much of my time and I have barely used it. But I have ridden it enough to know that I get on with it, and that it's better than my old one. I will ride it when I can.<br /><br />In the years after uni, I didn't ride at all, so when I began again it was in order to get fit. This was a mistake. Getting fit had always been a by-product of exploring the countryside by bike. When I stopped going out to get fit, and started going out to explore the countryside again, I got a lot fitter.Mark In Mayennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14987723233401368368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-71282388548069624792010-03-22T09:22:54.577+00:002010-03-22T09:22:54.577+00:00Way to go! I only own one single solitary bike but...Way to go! I only own one single solitary bike but I love it. I love the sense of freedom it gives me but also the sense of achievement when I go out on a long ride. There's something about getting somewhere under your own steam. And with a bike you can still hear the world around you or stop and stare...Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133900289384226725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-90772473468695702082010-03-21T16:57:22.059+00:002010-03-21T16:57:22.059+00:00Ouch! I hope you heal quickly. Try not to laughOuch! I hope you heal quickly. Try not to laughFrench Fancy...https://www.blogger.com/profile/04941577892849157015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-3964411117549619332010-03-21T13:58:36.623+00:002010-03-21T13:58:36.623+00:00Well, so much for my bike ride today. I made it t...Well, so much for my bike ride today. I made it to the meeting place and promptly fell off - first time in twenty years! So after a trip to casualty I am nursing a cracked rib and a VERY sore chest. <br /><br />Molly - Bikes are one of the few things that have become substantially cheaper over recent years - mainly because they are manufactured in China.<br /><br />FF - A trike! How cool is that. I have always fancied a trike but never had one; except when I was five and it had a metal box on the back we used to fill with leaves. I have had lots of tandems though and only sold my last one a year ago - I've had about five in all.<br /><br />Carol - Yes, you live in a good spot for cycling. Nice ride from your place to Cirencester. Or out to Sherston and the Arboretum.The bike shedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05195882998271591934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-92113996643901796722010-03-21T12:32:17.685+00:002010-03-21T12:32:17.685+00:00I adore cycling - always have always will. I can c...I adore cycling - always have always will. I can completely relate to your love of cycling.<br /><br />However, I just have the one trusty bike! Makes me feel like a lightweight. When I had one of my bikes stolen a while ago, it became apparent that few people deal in the secondhand bike business - so a I bought a fantastic new one for such a reasonable price I thought the world has gone crazy. The chap in the shop said, 'new bikes are so cheap, there's not a lot to be made with secondhand ones, so those trades appear to be disappearing.' This seems very much a symptom of the whole throw-away world we live in...<br /><br />My feller is always fishing bikes out of skips and fixing them and giving them away. His little pert in counteracting the TA culture.Molly Potterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16322262170382594290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-85108543583369156862010-03-21T09:26:41.988+00:002010-03-21T09:26:41.988+00:00I've not been on a bike for years! I used to l...I've not been on a bike for years! I used to love cycling (living in a small village in the middle of nowhere with no bus service will do that to you!!) and would regularly phone my friend who lived about 6 miles away and we would leave at the same time and meet in the middle. <br /><br />Chris and I are thinking about buying bikes so that we can cycle round here...seems a waste having all that beautiful countryside and just driving through it!!<br /><br />C x<br /><br />Ps. 16 bikes!!Carolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12327016337976942530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-34913034022480688632010-03-21T08:56:35.636+00:002010-03-21T08:56:35.636+00:00I sort of gasped when I saw that you had 16 bikes,...I sort of gasped when I saw that you had 16 bikes, but maybe because I have never been a bike rider. I can almost picture you falling of your chair in astonishment. I was the adored only child of older than average parents and they were very over-protective. I didn't roller or ice skate or do anything really that might have caused injury.<br /><br />When I was about 18 a friend of mine decided to teach me but my balance was dreadful and as we freewheeled down a hill (with me sitting on her crossbar) we both fell off and scraped ourselves very badly.That's it I thought - I'm never doing this again.<br /><br />Flash forward to about 30 years later. Living by so many canal paths it seemed a shame to just stick to walking. Mr FF rides his bike and I wanted to ride as well - but not a bike (traumatised by the fall all those years before). I ordered a trike online from the UK and since it arrived I have not looked back. Having said that, it has been out of action needing a slight repair for a while now but, as soon as Mr FF returns from Paris, it is near the top of the todo.French Fancy...https://www.blogger.com/profile/04941577892849157015noreply@blogger.com