We saw a girl riding her bike today, holding a cup of coffee in her hand. My wife said: That's cool, she's able to balance it so well. Without thinking, I said: That isn't hard, I did it when I was carrying ...

Never got to finish my sentence, because she asked, in her you're-in-trouble voice: Have you been riding on streets one-handed?

Took some quick explaining to get past that one! Anybody else have amusing slip-ups to report?

This post is funny. I tried to ride a short distance while holding a smoothie. Couple of bumps later it was all over my bike.

Lol

Heh. I should have said yesterday though, guess I'm not really awake yet!

You get in trouble from your wife for riding on the street one handed???

One of the reasons I can commute by bike is that she knows I always ride safe. Dunno if you are married, but worrying about safety is not un-heard of in a wife

Time for a new wife who lets you be you.:cool:

Umm...yes I am married but not to my mom.
"one of the reasons you "can" commute"?? So that's up to her too?

Bah. This was meant to be a fun thread, not a dissection of language and marital relationships. You, Sir, have no sense of humour. Good day to you.

Lol, sounds like my negotiations with parents for a bike as an undergrad a few years back. "Can I get a motorcycle?", NO, "well parking passes for cars are to expensive, so can I get a shiny new road bike?" . . . Fine. ; )

I can have a whole conversation where each sentence is an apology for the last one.

Just admit it, your whipped! Lol

Sure am, if you equate being whipped to an expectation that I be responsible when doing a potentially dangerous activity.

My wife encourages me to ride no-hands in heavy traffic.

I'm thinking now she wants me dead.

1 is better than none

No problem here, on my Urban Combat Commute™, I ride with both hands firmly on the grips, close to the brake handles, and only going one handed on occasions of signaling a turn, or adjusting my bar end mirror.

Does she tell you to play in the freeway too?

Just chalk it up to another 'Verbal blunder' by you.

Cycling is safer than trying to cross a road as a pedestrian.

Your third verbal blunder - cycling is dangerous.

That there are more things more dangerous or that the danger posed by an activity is below the commonly accepted threshold of what constitutes unnecessary danger or exposure to risk does not preclude something from being itself dangerous. You are not very good at being a pedant.

And you will be killed by a poorly timed pigeon, because irony's a *****.

No but clearly her ways are more subtle.

Sounds like a college brat talking, trying to prove how smart he is.

Big fail though, in trying to claim cycling is dangerous.

OK maybe you are smarter than some of us in your claims. I guess cycling is dangerous to those who cannot avoid the asphalt in front of them. Time for you to pick a safer activity. PS - tumbling or judo classes might be helpful in learning how to fall.

https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...Boston-College

Or a good front light, which I quickly bought, would have prevented the thing all together. Cycling is dangerous when you are not properly equipped (gear or skill) for the situations you encounter.

If you think I said that cycling is dangerous, I'm going to go out on a limb and assume reading comprehension isn't your strong suit.