Originally Posted by riderx
You should have offered to let him try it out. That would have been priceless.
Did that to one of my buddies yesterday, when he was asking me about the bike. In fact i've done it to all my friends. They're usually fine for about 20 yards, then its all over, and i'm doubled over laughing. I haven't made any of them put the clipless shoes on yet though, don't want to hurt anyone.
Originally Posted by bbaker22
When I was a kid (during the 70's and 80's), we referred to all road bikes as 10 speeds...
we did the same thing -- any road frame was a "10 speed" -- funny part was that NONE of the gears on the bikes i had when i was a kid worked. They had the gears for 10 or 12, but they might as well have been 1 speeds.