Casa Grande, Arizona: How To Buy & Ride A Bicycle

I mentioned in another blog post that Carol, one of my two good looking sister-in-laws, called Mary Lynn earlier this week. She had read the blog post where I talked about buying MLA a bicycle. In that post I briefly mentioned MLA was struggling with riding a bicycle.

So, Carol called to ask MLA if she was really that bad.

You have to realize that occasionally I may overstate the facts slightly. Not a lot, just a little, just to make a point. That said, I did not overstate MLA's struggles with re-learning to ride a bike after a lapse of 15 years or so.

The truth is, once she is underway she does fine. She zips right along, sailing merrily along the streets of the RV park. In fact, except for starting and stopping, she has this bike riding thing down solid. And how important are starting and stopping anyhow?

For example, the other day we were at one of those 'big box' stores and she wanted to try out a bicycle we were considering for purchase. I had her sit on the bike, gave her a push to get her started and off she goes, looking very good. That is, she looked very good for about 15 feet when suddenly the bike developed a low speed wobble and MLA almost took out about ten feet of products on display. She was perfectly fine and the bike escaped mostly unharmed, mostly.

I told MLA we could buy the bike, just not the one she test drove. Obviously it had a problem, like a nut loose behind the wheel...

OK, so I kid MLA about her bike riding skills. Seriously she does great, er, she does good, er, well she's mostly just a hazard to herself. And any small dogs unable to get out of her way quickly enough...

Tomorrow I'm going in search of those lights made of LEDs that flash really brightly, warning others to stay alert and to stay out of the way.

And maybe a set of training wheels... they don't make automatic braking systems for bikes do they? Oh well, always fun on the road.

See Ya!