Thanks, Tricia! I'm working the next several days, but hope to have more sections ready by the middle of next week.TriciaG wrote: ↑May 5th, 2021, 4:09 pm Very true!
Two items of note:
(1) Yes, going up an incline IS fatiguing! I can't imagine doing it without gears - being able to down shift!
(2) Avoid ruts parallel to your direction of travel: The time I took a tumble as an adult (which earned me a precautionary ride to the hospital in an ambulance), it was due to that. I've almost gotten in trouble that way since, but I've learned to keep my hands on the handlebars, and force it if I have to. There's no playing nice with the handlebars when your front wheel is in a rut. As my husband wisely said, "The bike will go the direction you steer it."
Both sections PL OK.
(1) Back when I used to regularly ride from our house to my family's store, there was a street that went sharply downhill, then just as sharply uphill. There was a small cross-street right at the bottom of the hill. If there was no traffic coming out of the cross street, the momentum of the downhill stretch would carry me up the other side with a reasonable amount of pedaling. If a car was coming out of the side street, and i had to pause for it, well then, forget about the uphill, there was no way. I just walked the bike up the hill and resumed riding when I got back on the level. I was very much inclined to curse the placement of that side street!
(2) Ouch! That tumble sounds painful! Even purely precautionary ambulance rides are no fun! I imagine getting your wheel into a rut was a more common occurrence on the dirt roads of the 1890's. In modern times, we are more likely to be done in by potholes!