No Hands

Dizraeligears

Is this a thing now?Seeing this everywhere,young lads especially.
On the paths.Lookin at their phones!
wtf

punisher5112

Dizraeligears wrote: »

Is this a thing now?Seeing this everywhere,young lads especially.
On the paths.Lookin at their phones!
wtf

Yes, many end up with new faces and other broken bones because no matter how hard they think they are, they won't beat concrete or steel for example....

Wishbone Ash

Dizraeligears wrote: »

...On the paths.Lookin at their phones!
wtf

It looked much cooler years ago when lads did it while reading a newspaper (particularly on a descent).

Macy0161

Dizraeligears wrote: »

Is this a thing now?Seeing this everywhere,young lads especially.
On the paths.Lookin at their phones!
wtf

Only a thing now? Hands in pockets and flipped handlebars were the thing back in the late 80's. (I didn't do either, and still brutal at both hands off unless I practice regularly).

Only difference is the phones. Just the same as we didn't all chat on public transport before phones either - we read newspapers, had walkmans etc.!

John Hutton

Cycling with no hands is an essential cycling skill imo. How else can you put on a rain jacket without stopping, or stretch your back, neck and shoulders?

Oink

Weepsie wrote: »

Once saw someone reading a penguin classic while cycling up the navan road

Oh the complete and utter w@nkery of it all.

cletus

I'd say 80% of all my cycling as a teenager was done with no hands

Weepsie

Weepsie wrote: »

Once saw someone reading a penguin classic while cycling up the navan road

I was cycling past the four courts one morning, and saw someone jogging up the quays, against traffic, in the cycle lane. Lads on bikes moving out to let him past, and I was thinking "no way I'm getting out of his way, he can get out of the road".

Slowed down as I approached him and it appeared like he was looking into the sky. It became apparent that he was also juggling 3 or 4 beanbags while he was running in the cycle lane. Rang the bell, stopped before crashing into him and waited to explain how much of a dumbfcuk he was. He nipped up onto the footpath, then back down behind me before I got a chance to say anything, so continued on my way.

Stopped beside another fella on a bike at the next lights, who hooked his thumb back towards the jogger and said:
"What d'ya make of your man?"
"Each to their own, but he's asking for trouble going against traffic" says I
Your man replies: "I wouldn't mind, but I betcha €50 he boasts about it too his mates and calls it joggling, the insufferable prick"

Akrasia

cletus wrote: »

I'd say 80% of all my cycling as a teenager was done with no hands

Yep, playing cowboys with the local kids, using bikes as horses and hurleys as guns, you needed both hands to hold the rifle properly


Very stupid to be texting while cycling, not cause you don't have enough hands, but because you can't be looking where you're going when you're concentrating on a screen

Effects

Akrasia wrote: »

Yep, playing cowboys with the local kids, using bikes as horses

We went as far as attaching baling rope to the ends of the handlebars and steered the bike this way, pretending they were reins.

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Skillz

cajonlardo

Weepsie wrote: »

Once saw someone reading a penguin classic while cycling up the navan road

Told this before on this forum

On a bright spring day I was just thinking my form was at last coming round and I was pedalling along nicely. Next thing a lad flies by me on an old mountain bike . He had a tin of Ambrosia un one hand and a big spoon in the other and was lashing into it. Feckin flying he was.

bazermc

cletus wrote: »

I'd say 80% of all my cycling as a teenager was done with no hands

Hands kept free for other stuff.

CramCycle

I do it all the time but mainly because it's the only way to pull off sarcastic, what are ye f*ckin at? poses. Still doesn't beat the guy eating a Chinese from Yumi as he cycled uphill past Closkeagh hospital. Tray in one hand, fork in the other.

I also admire the old racing videos with people opening bottles using the quill stem

John_Rambo

It's the only way to catch flies with chopsticks on a summer commute.

07Lapierre

I was surprised to see the pros having difficulty putting their gillet on, on the stelvio yesterday. Granted if I wa climbing the stelvio I’d be having difficulty staying upright!

jimm

CramCycle wrote: »

I also admire the old racing videos with people opening bottles using the quill stem

There's a great one where a rider resorts to using the stem as a bottle opener, after several failed attempts with his teeth :eek: