Originally Posted by
Last ride 76
Reading the thread about bike shimmy, I was surprised by something... I got the sense that riding no hands is , maybe not rare, but not that common either.*
Is this true for you?
Do you ride no hands frequently? I do it for specific purposes: To check a bike before I buy it. I do it for a momentary change of position to stop the pinching from my sciatica, (I can't efffing believe I have sciatica
)
I got ticketed by a traffic cop once for riding no hands (there's actually a law about it around here), i was riding slowly on a very wide and smooth bike path i had all for myself at that moment.. i didn't tell her i used to put on or remove rain jackets, arm and once even leg warmers while riding in my competitive days, sometimes coasting downhill a bumpy, winding 3rd grade french road from a pass summit at 30+mph, in a pack, in the fog...
The purpose doesn't matter. "i never do that anyway" doesn't matter. If a bike *cannot* be safely ridden no hands, there is something wrong that needs fixing, period.
Also, more bike handling skills is more better, always.