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Old 03-16-04 | 01:29 PM
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Originally Posted by trekkie820
The weirdest thing happened to me today when i was riding. I had been riding for about 5 minutes, then stopped at a light. As i was pulling away, i got up to my usual speed, and reached down to shift!! I guess my mind drifted and i thought i was on my mountain bike for a second. Anyone else had an urge to shift for some odd reason?
It is one of those conditioned reflex things. Usually a result of riding multi geared bikes at the same time that you ride fixed. The only known cure is to sell all the other bikes or convert them to fixed and then there will be no possible recurrence of this annoying tendency.

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