"Ray Heindl" <
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> If you put a fatter tire on the rear it tilts the front end downward so
> you're always riding downhill -- much more efficient.
Believe it or not, I tried to sell this to my Dad when I was a kid. As a
paperboy, I was backed into by a driver exiting a driveway, taco-ing my
front wheel. I picked myself up and dusted myself off. The lady told me I
should look where I was going, and dumb naive kid as I was, I believed her.
She told me I could take the front wheel off her son's bike. Problem was,
it was a 20" wheel. I installed it, threw away my wrecked front wheel, and
rode off to finish throwing my papers. I was petrified that my parents
would learn of my "carelessness", so I made up that story. After my dad
gave me a fish-eye, I told him it was a cool thing to do and that all the
kids were doing it. He bought that.
I didn't tell them about the accident until years later when I was an adult.
They were dismayed that I didn't trust them enough back then to tell them
the truth. I suppose that if it happened nowadays, I'd be smart enough to
roll around on the ground and claim a whiplash or something and call my
attorney. But then again, maybe not. I haven't gotten much smarter since
those days, now that i think of it.