Yes indeed, seems like I could ride no-handed without thinking about it and can't remember actually LEARNING to do it. Big balloon tires on a heavy bike. I don't know about the 'trail' geometry of that old bike. I was probably greater, and I thought for quite a while, when I got back into biking, that the BIKE must be the difference. But I see young people riding these new road bikes no-handed all the time. I also remember riding that newspaper bike to the last day possible, to avoid walking. In the snow. And falling due to invisible ice. But back then I was bullet proof, and now I most certainly AM NOT!