What is wrong with people these days??

[ChooksinChoppers]

I like the water balloon idea...but from my end! have a stash close handy...lots of food coloring! Wam! right through their open windows!

That'll teach em!

 

[SourRoses]

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But she'd like it if we had matching bikes! Then she wouldn't feel silly alone.

She wouldn't even ride one if it was PINK! ask her!

I might have said something about not riding one even if it were pink

!

But if I wasn't riding alone I really wouldn't feel so silly! What about I just ride a nice changeable speed, pink bike, with the white basket and frilly pom poms and such coming off the handles... I wouldn't feel at all silly on that! You two can ride the three wheeler bikes beside me?

Don't stray too far away from the sparkly pink pom-pom bike girl, now, will you?

 

[schellie69]

My grandma had one of those bikes she never had a car or license. I would love to get some motorcycle bags for DH bike so we could do some shopping on it. I hate the price of gas.

 

[EweSheep]

Well I don't have those three wheelers but I do have something that close, a recumbrent trike made by Sun. Talk about a wonderful bike to ride! Easy on my tailbone too which had some nerve damage to it and riding a bike with a narrow or wide seat would just makes it hurt. The trike is not cheap. We bought about four years ago at $1200.00 for hubby's birthday but he lets me use it from time to time. I am hoping in due time, those Sun trikes will go down in price, maybe not, because I think the manufacturer is in California.

My hubby's mom lives out in the country. Has NO license or knows how to drive or too nervous to drive. I don't know what she will do when my FIL would pass away, he was the one that would take her to town 20 miles away for doctor's care, grocery and all that stuff. I did ask her what she will do when FIL pass away and she said, oh, I'll find someone like Nona to drive me into town. Well Nona is roughly an hour and half away and she does not have a lot of money herself and only visit twice a year. My husband certainly will NOT help her...that's another story, a toxic relationship between mother and son. We live about two hours from them.

I see more and more bicyclers out there in this town, however, more accidents as well because people driving in cars would "muscle" the bicyclers to get a rise out of them to cause an accident. Even city buses would nearly run you down. Had one that would literally touch my handbars on my trike. GRRRRRRRR!

 

[ChooksinChoppers]

How are those recumbrent bikes on your knees Ewesheep? I would think it would make it harder to peddle? My knees don't even "like" the 3 wheeler

But I am sticking with it as I am really out of shape. There is no way i would ride on the roads here! Apart from being too slow the 3 wheelers are too wide to let a car pass you safely...so I use the sidewalk. (never see anyone walking anyways)

a couple of joggers maybe

 

[Spookwriter]

I feel guilty so I'll confess...

I do ride bikes with my daughter, her friends, around our little town.

But I much prefer the golf cart...electric, EZ-G0. Not quite street legal
here, but fine in our little town and the backroads. However it is 7 miles
one way to buy a loaf of bread or anything else.

Only thing you can actually buy in our town is a can of sodapop. We have
THREE machines now. Just had two for years, but a neighbor stole a new
pepsi machine from somewhere.

Sodapop and stamps...we have a post office, so you can buy stamps and
stuff too I guess. We use to have a store/gas station but it closed a long
time ago. Back in the 80's? 90's? Back when the EPA was making people
put new tanks in the ground.

We even had a barbershop once...but Ed's hands got to shaking so bad
he quit before he cut somebody's ear off. That's where two of the pop machines
are...on Ed's front porch where the barbershop was.

That new pepsi machine, it's at the old closed up gas station. Set it up on some
concrete blocks, they did.

 

[fishin-nole]

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Sounds like the perfect place to live.

 

[EweSheep]

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They are easy on the knees but ONE thing I must advise, do NOT use recumbrent bikes on STEEP hills, they are worthless for climbing! Oh I almost busted a gut trying to get up to a very steep hill and they are not made for steepness. Gradual slopes and gentle hills not a problem. My hubby has bad knees and he enjoyed riding them. Even in the gear made for climbing and I am out of shape but easy on you, your weight and joints when you are riding out in the countryside with flat roads. I love it!

The three wheelers and recumbrent trikes are almost similar in wide wise. I love riding them on the sidewalks but in this city, it is prohibited but I still do it now and then. Riding them on busy intersections are not a problem if drivers would take an extra minute or two for the caution of the slow.

Recumbrent bikes, you really need to safe guard them in the city. They are highly attractive to thieves. Hubby has been threatened by gangs numberous times on the way to work or coming back from work, they don't want him, they wanted the bike. One even had the gall to stop him that hubby put out his foot, pedalled the fastest he could do, and nailed that teenager in the crotch like a batting ram. Knocked that poor kid off his feet but at least he would think twice next time about stealing a bike. Now hubby has a different job and daytime, bikes are prohibited at his work place and he just rides his motorcycle to work now.