Thanks, Bill. You are correct, no attack, in my case. I can and have for years ridden a freewheel. When I first discovered (after going barefoot for a few years, which woke up and heightened my proproceptive system and gave me ballance back despite always feeling like I spin like a whirling dervish on two axes in addition to the actual motion I experience), I rode less bikes and though I was delighted I could ride them, never came back better than I left. Because of Grant’s poetic waxings, I decided to buy my Hunqapillar, and WOW! I came back from rides better than I left. And that was with freewheel. Grin. Took too many years for me to take Phil’s suggestion that I try fixed. I haven’t looked back since.
It is common for people to map the puzzlements of brain injury that don’t make sense (and believe me, there are a lot of them!) to mental illness. It is the easy, lazy answer of the ignorant and arrogant. I’ve had doctors, among others, do this, despite my piles of brain scans and tests to the contrary. Mental illness is real, but it is a vastly different beast than brain injury. But yes, my brain has, among other things, axonal diffusion and damage to the brainstem area that controls balance. Of course, “guy with vertigo rides bike on mountain trails to help heal brain” does bring sanity into question! Sardonic grin. With abandon, Patrick -- 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.
