Originally Posted by
Rolla
In high school in the 1970s, I used to ride the Amish country roads in NE Ohio. I was gravel before gravel was cool!
Same here; we lived on a little gravel road that had just three houses on it. I remember learning very quickly how to balance on the bike because falling on the gravel hurt badly and made for nasty, dirty scrapes!
Out on the main (paved) road, there was a hill about ten houses away in one direction. We were forbidden to ever ride down that hill! I think the assumption was that we'd hit the T intersection at the bottom at full speed and get run over by a bus. But going back years later to see the old neighborhood, I laughed at the "hill".... It wasn't very steep at all.
When I was 8, we moved to Illinois which was much flatter and thus could ride pretty much anywhere I wanted.