The statement someone made that they "just won't" ride without hands got me thinking about something I never thought about...riding without holding onto the bars (that's for the joke that's sure to come about riding with NO HANDS). So far someone said "no" to the poll and I guess I'm wondering why not on a safe stretch of road or an empty trail. Is it fear, inability or something else I've missed? I’ve been riding bikes since I was 4 or 5 so that makes it about 45 years of riding a bike. To me learning to ride a bike at an early age was a right of passage in growing up, but maybe I’m wrong and kids sit in front of video games to grow up now and just don’t learn to ride bikes anymore. Am I really out of touch on this one?
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Ralph (not Ralphie) on a Roubaix in
Huntington Beach, CA
& Iron Horse Maverick 5.5