Not bike related, but certainly accident related: Your forlorn attempt to get airborne reminds me of a jarring experience at age 9 when I saw my first skateboard -- they were really just boards with metal skate trucks bolted to them. For some reason, I got the bright idea that I could place the skateboard squarely facing me on a friend's concrete driveway, walk back 15 feet, take a run, and do a belly flop onto the board. Forget what exactly I expected to gain from this.
Needless to say, I overshot the skateboard and landed on my front teeth, which were big enough to earn me the monicker, "Beaver." One is still a couple of mm shorter than the other. On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 11:08 AM Alan Pickett <youbetyourbi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Joe's mention of his Stingray reminded me of this: in 1977 I was living in > Charleston WV and had a yellow Schwinn Stingray. Black banana seat and > those high, high "monkey bars". Behind our house, there was a church, and > we would often ride our bikes in the parking lot, bunny hopping, and > jumping off the edge of the asphalt, which dropped sharply about 2.5-3ft as > it transitioned into an undeveloped, weedy and rock-strewn lot. I don't > know what inspired me, but I got it in my head that if secured my mom's > large umbrella to the very back of the seat (in addition to the seat post, > there was a long, vertical arc of cheap metal that attached at the rear > drop-outs and rose up to stabilize the seat), I might perhaps sail loftily > over the drop-off, momentarily weightless, and alight gracefully to the > weed-lot below. Needless to say, my vision, as well as my bike and I, came > crashing down, as the umbrella only served to produce enough drag to keep > my rear-end up, briefly holding my bike in a nose-dive position before I > was severely re-introduced to terra-firma. Hey, at least I had a dream! > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgtZ4A6UHdQKpv0Q-xCD7hKwYjrn4HjnTd2Pe0nj1_dX8w%40mail.gmail.com.
