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Me and the lady that lives here were coming back from the flea market when she mentioned that today would be a good day for her to take a ride with me. Then she mentioned that maybe I might have too much going on when we got home, but I told her that anything I had to do could wait. As soon as we got home, I got the bike out of the garage and gave her a short class on what not to do, and helped her get her helmet on and adjusted and then explained how to mount the bike after I was on. We took a short 15-20 mile ride, just so that I could get her used to the bike, without going too fast or too many manuevers to scare her from trying again later. And it worked! After we got back, she said although the curves scared her some, and her heart needed to slow down, she said that she thinks she would be willing to try it again on a more straight road, until she got a little more used to it.
I've been trying to get her to ride on my bikes every since I've known her, and today was a major acomplishment. She told me it was actually pretty comfortable back there, but she will need a little time to get used to it. I've got to run down to Texas this coming weekend, but the weekend after that is looking like maybe another training ride.:clapper::clapper::clapper::clapper:
And to think, all it took was a Yellow bike, if I'd known this, all of my previuos bikes would had been Yellow.:shock:
Gene:waving:
Me and the lady that lives here were coming back from the flea market when she mentioned that today would be a good day for her to take a ride with me. Then she mentioned that maybe I might have too much going on when we got home, but I told her that anything I had to do could wait. As soon as we got home, I got the bike out of the garage and gave her a short class on what not to do, and helped her get her helmet on and adjusted and then explained how to mount the bike after I was on. We took a short 15-20 mile ride, just so that I could get her used to the bike, without going too fast or too many manuevers to scare her from trying again later. And it worked! After we got back, she said although the curves scared her some, and her heart needed to slow down, she said that she thinks she would be willing to try it again on a more straight road, until she got a little more used to it.
I've been trying to get her to ride on my bikes every since I've known her, and today was a major acomplishment. She told me it was actually pretty comfortable back there, but she will need a little time to get used to it. I've got to run down to Texas this coming weekend, but the weekend after that is looking like maybe another training ride.:clapper::clapper::clapper::clapper:
And to think, all it took was a Yellow bike, if I'd known this, all of my previuos bikes would had been Yellow.:shock:
Gene:waving: