Originally Posted by
ncbikers
How can I teach my bike about the “casual ride?”
I'm not sure it can be done. One of my bikes is frisky as a puppy. Open the door and it dashes out. All it wants to do is run and play. I can barely pedal fast enough to keep up with it. That bike wears me right out.
The only thing I've found that slows it down is going on a social ride with others. Recently, another 50+ member came to town with his wife. We went for a two or three-hour ride that seldom got out of the single digits. Yellow Bike puttered along happy as a bike could be. But when we left our guests, it was the same old, same old. It roared away with me clinging on for dear life. The cars it didn't draft in traffic, it passed.
I think there's no training a bike. It is what it is. Love it or leave it. I love Yellow Bike.