Like when I drive my wife's (automatic) car after driving mine (manual) for a long period, and instinctively depressing the clutch simultaneously with the brake when suddenly stopping. "Suddenly stopping" becomes even more sudden with both feet on the wider brake pedal. Vehicular equivalent of almost flying over the bars. Sometimes muscle memory is not helpful!
Andy Cheatham Pittsburgh On Sunday, January 17, 2016 at 1:41:07 AM UTC-5, Patrick Moore wrote: > > Even today after 19 years of riding fixed, I still get caught out > occasionally after swapping from a derailleur bike back to a fixed gear. > Fortunately, no such jolt recently has been very dangerous. > > I also get caught out the other way: my pedaling on a freewheel bike can > be choppy for a half mile or so until my legs remember that the wheel won't > push them around. > > On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 8:57 PM, Benz, Sunnyvale, CA <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> On Saturday, January 16, 2016 at 2:48:25 PM UTC-8, Joe Bernard wrote: >>> >>> Agreed. Once upon a many years ago Ray Varella let me ride his fixed Riv >>> and I dang near launched over the handlebars when I forgot I couldn't >>> coast. I turned around and brought it right back before I and someone's >>> custom bicycle ended up on the ground. Later my daughter told me Ray looked >>> at her and said, "I don't think he likes it." ;) >> >> >> I can relate to that because I tried to coast at my first spin class >> years ago. The massive flywheel did not want to stop and I was almost >> launched. >> >> -- >> 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 [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. > By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. > Other professional writing services. > http://www.resumespecialties.com/ > www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten > ************************************************************************** > ************** > *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a > circumference on which all conditions, distinctions, and individualities > revolve. *Chuang Tzu > > *Stat crux dum volvitur orbis.* *(The cross stands motionless while the > world revolves.) *Carthusian motto > > *It is *we *who change; *He* remains the same.* Eckhart > > *Kinei hos eromenon.* (*It moves [all things] as the beloved.) *Aristotle > > > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
