Hands Off My Bike!

[funnymummy]

I have never been able to do it! I tried & tried as a kid, never mastered it.
So I gaze with admiration at the roadies as they fly over he finishing line arms held high over their heads in triumph, thinking how cool they look & how they dersve to be proud of their achivements & celebrate as they cross the line
But what I can't abide is watching the teens on their bso's flying down the road hands in their pockets, smoking or talking on their mobiles as they go... That is sheer lunacy & a fatality waiting to happen!

 

[Ian 74]

I have never been able to do it! I tried & tried as a kid, never mastered it.
So I gaze with admiration at the roadies as they fly over he finishing line arms held high over their heads in triumph, thinking how cool they look & how they dersve to be proud of their achivements & celebrate as they cross the line
But what I can't abide is watching the teens on their bso's flying down the road hands in their pockets, smoking or talking on their mobiles as they go... That is sheer lunacy & a fatality waiting to happen!

Aye thats a different kettle of fish: saw one knob head a while back almost go under a bus because he was pissing about on his bike in front of his mates. Not clever.

 

[TobyM]

I do it to take lids of bottles and stuff, it's a useful skill! Plus, it does feel great going round corners purely by leaning Btw, it's much easier the faster you go - it doesn't work very well at 5 mph

 

[Mad at urage]

I am probably the only person on the forum who is wuss enough to say but if you haven't got a hand on the bar you haven't got full control of your bike, yes it looks cool but I don't think it's clever.
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=oVaGNT6e18g

It's a useful skill to have, not one to practice whilst there are any hazards around, but when things go wrong* it can be necessary.


*A fairly new 'bike, back in the ninetys: Second ride out, the tube connecting the forks to the handlebars broke = no connection between where I pointed the handlebars and where the front wheel went. I was overtaking cars at the time! Using the brakes would have caused the wheel to rotate like a castor, I had to negotiate my way back into and through the traffic stream and then slow down without the brakes - all whilst congratulating myself on having learned to ride 'no hands'.

 

[MontyVeda]

i could on my road bike in the 80's but on my MTB I've never been able to do it... would be nice to straighten my back every now and then though.

 

[Ian 74]

Went for a sedate family bike ride today and practiced a bit more, managed to take my t-shirt off and on again and did a little bit of cornering... Definetly getting more confident with my all round balance.