canklecat

Nope, not anymore. I did when I was younger, with my '76 Motobecane. That bike seemed to track perfectly.

But my balance has been sketchy since my neck was broken almost 20 years ago, along with chronic sinus and ear pressure messing up my equilibrium. At most I'll rest just the fingertips of one hand on the center of the bar, but that's all. I dunno if my bikes now are twitchy or it's mostly operator error.

If I need to do anything that requires two hands I stop. And after Chris Froome's crash injury I decided to listen to his riding partner, even if Froome didn't. I don't know whether the crash itself was recorded on video, but moments before the crash, video shows Froome took his hands off the bar to fiddle with a windbreaker and his riding partner could be heard warning "Chris, don't take chances." Apparently he continued riding no-hands with gusting wind and lost control.