Day 34

Bike Riding...............

Well I found this thing in my garage....a friend informed me it's called a bike. I do have vague memories of a thing called 'bike' as a child. Some of those memories where good, Grandpa teaching me to ride ........mmm (you don’t need trainer wheels  ...so just, bike + mud + rain = "Sharon can Ride" yeh I got muddy) then there was the bike rides on weekends with friends...cooking chocolate pancakes (oh they were so yuk) and some not so good times coming down Nottingham Rd (J.W. running me off the road...on purpose, that hurt). Ahhh

Well I must say I have never been one for Triathlons,....cause swimming, running not really my thing but bike riding....................oops yeh ....bike riding also not. So that Tri thing won't be happening.

So after discovering this thing called 'Bike' I decided to give it ago, so for 4 days now I have been riding it. And honestly I thought I had been doing quite good........Now if you read this far you definitely going to get a laugh

I thought I got this bike thing down pat, so organised to meet Karen this am for breakfast, both of us riding there. Well I made it and got home,

Before headin home I asked Karen could she show me how to use these gears because ...they were not working for me. Besides the seat not being comfortable......hhhhh I found out (according to Karen). The thing called a shifter...well there’s a right and left one.

Well.... I thought the shifter on 'R' controlled front wheel and shifter on 'L' the back wheel just like the brakes did. How wrong could I be..............Karen barely stayed straight on her bike for smiling (but laughing hard inside at me : ). Yes I do realise now it does not work that way. It has made it so much easier for me

The ride home so much more pleasant……………and not as hard (bikes a pretty good when you use that advice that I was given

Bike ride much easier post that.............and yes do realise those shifters affect the same thing not indviduak bike rules