Because of the wife's recent accident, I've had to head off on the road by myself these days... Hopefully when the stitches are out in a few days she'll jump back in the saddle and head out with me...
The other night I was riding along down the ironhorse bike path, and in the distance I saw a recumbent rider approaching...
"Neat!", I thought to myself, "those recumbent bikes are kind of interesting"
I'm riding on the right of the path and as we close distance, the rider veers over to my side of the path... a bit confused, I move over to the left... moments later he does the same and we are again on a collision course.
This time I slow down and hold the middle of the path and with a slight wobble and to my great surprise he does the same and again we're destined to occupy the same space and time!
I unclip, and slow to a stop just as he is within about a dozen yards from me. He's an older looking gentleman with a rather perturbed look on his face... he then suddenly veers completely off the path opposite me and as I watch he slows to a crawl and then *Clunk* falls over in slow motion...
Laughing was thelast thing I was expecting to hear but that's what he was doing... My irritation being displaced now by confusion, I walk over as he is trying to extricate himself from his machine all the while chuckling at himself...
Then as I approach he says "I saw you coming and I panicked! I can only control this contraption when I'm moving along at a good speed when I saw you coming I slowed down and that's all she wrote!" he actually used that phrase I felt like I was talking to Jeff Foxworthy!
It turns out that his son bought him the recumbent for health reasons and because he had back problems and the son thought the recumbent would be better because of that.
We talked for a while and he showed me his bike up close (I never saw one up close before)
Then I bid him farewell and good luck and as I was getting back on my bike he was standing there with a quizzical look... I asked him what was wrong, and he said if I didn;t mind if I could give him a push as the path was in a slight uphill *laughing*
It was tough in my cleats but I gave him as good a running push as I could and when he sped up I yelled after him "You're free! you're free!"
He laughed (he had a really infectious laugh) and waved as he ambled off...
Id like to try a recumbent someday just for the experience
Feanor
The other night I was riding along down the ironhorse bike path, and in the distance I saw a recumbent rider approaching...
"Neat!", I thought to myself, "those recumbent bikes are kind of interesting"
I'm riding on the right of the path and as we close distance, the rider veers over to my side of the path... a bit confused, I move over to the left... moments later he does the same and we are again on a collision course.
This time I slow down and hold the middle of the path and with a slight wobble and to my great surprise he does the same and again we're destined to occupy the same space and time!
I unclip, and slow to a stop just as he is within about a dozen yards from me. He's an older looking gentleman with a rather perturbed look on his face... he then suddenly veers completely off the path opposite me and as I watch he slows to a crawl and then *Clunk* falls over in slow motion...
Laughing was thelast thing I was expecting to hear but that's what he was doing... My irritation being displaced now by confusion, I walk over as he is trying to extricate himself from his machine all the while chuckling at himself...
Then as I approach he says "I saw you coming and I panicked! I can only control this contraption when I'm moving along at a good speed when I saw you coming I slowed down and that's all she wrote!" he actually used that phrase I felt like I was talking to Jeff Foxworthy!
It turns out that his son bought him the recumbent for health reasons and because he had back problems and the son thought the recumbent would be better because of that.
We talked for a while and he showed me his bike up close (I never saw one up close before)
Then I bid him farewell and good luck and as I was getting back on my bike he was standing there with a quizzical look... I asked him what was wrong, and he said if I didn;t mind if I could give him a push as the path was in a slight uphill *laughing*
It was tough in my cleats but I gave him as good a running push as I could and when he sped up I yelled after him "You're free! you're free!"
He laughed (he had a really infectious laugh) and waved as he ambled off...
Id like to try a recumbent someday just for the experience
Feanor