I love this! It wasn’t until my wife bought her first “proper” bike that she started to understand why I wanted to keep mine indoors, and not just locked up outside. She was more excited than I was that our new flat had a cellar…
So what is it called if you have a fear of your old, classic ride being stolen? I’d be irked if any bike of mine were to disappear, but I think I would most apt to go totally ballistic if I’d come home someday and find that ‘Trusty Rusty’, my 1976-vintage Trek, had gone missing.
Having had 3 beloved rides stolen–two from inside my garage–I get this. The ’96 Specialized steel bike lives in the garage and is locked down. the Cervélo stays in the living room…and is ALSO locked down.
Yes, I actually regretted having a shiny new ride because of this phobia. It really takes away a lot of the pleasure of the new and shiny! Nevermind, it didn’t get stolen before it started to get knocked around, so it’s all balanced now.
I brought my bike into the hallway of the office building where my chiropracter is. The landlord saw me and about had kittens. “You can’t bring that in here!” Why not? “You don’t bring that into your house, do you???” I most certainly do, along with all my others. You want to supply a bike rack, I might consider using it.
He was stunned that I would bring one bike in the house; the idea of multiples left him apoplexic. Of course, I had no intention of using a bike rack, which was fine; he never installed one anyway.
When I was a school governor nobody took exception to my bringing a (folded) Birdy into the committee rooms – in fact it generated interest & approval. I never tried it an unfolded “normal” (ie. DF) bike, as I felt sure I would have had a different reaction.
I’ll now never know whether it was a lack of conviction on my part or an accurate assessment of non-cyclists’ prejudices.
Talking about numb hands etc – I had put thousands of miles on my Pollard before my heart attack. Afterwards I had it rebuilt as I had no memories to do the job myself at the time. As I was unable to reach down to change gear with the downtube shifter, I had straight bars fitted with Shimano (RapidFire?) changers.
I had gone from a simple 15-speed setup to a 24-speed one. At the time I thought all was well until my first ride over a half-hour long when my fingers began to tingle. As my rides got longer, the tingling got worse until I was getting home unable to write or even use cutlery!.
I still don’t know how to cure this. ‘Newton’ the new Tandem-Trike still has it’s old geometry (From being a club racing bicycle-tandem before the front-wheels modification to trike) but that also has straight bars instead of dropped, only I don’t get the numbness!
If anybody knows what is going on I would really appreciate hearing from you. I am attached to the Pollard but having discovered it’s racing pedigree and the faults with the steering (no self-steer so I can’t ride ‘hands-off’ etc) I am seriously considering moving on if I can’t fix it…
Why did you switch to flat bars? You could have switched to drop bar brifters to work with the 24 speed setup. This is what I have done with all my old steel bikes.
usually the palm tingling and numbness comes from resting weight on there. a recumbent rider should not have this problem. ergonomic grips are one possible solution. this is more common on flat bar road bikes… usually drop bar road bikes allow enough variation in hand positions and with padded cycling gloves on, tend to be okay for the longer rides.
from time to time i have a dream with slightly changing content but the very same feeling i got while i slowly realized that my bike was stolen the first time.
though in the dream it never gets actually stolen but its an everlasting time span i spend searching for it coz when it happened in reality i lost orientation and wasnt quite sure about the place i left it.
I love this! It wasn’t until my wife bought her first “proper” bike that she started to understand why I wanted to keep mine indoors, and not just locked up outside. She was more excited than I was that our new flat had a cellar…
So what is it called if you have a fear of your old, classic ride being stolen? I’d be irked if any bike of mine were to disappear, but I think I would most apt to go totally ballistic if I’d come home someday and find that ‘Trusty Rusty’, my 1976-vintage Trek, had gone missing.
‘Normal velocipedic Anxiety’ I suppose?
So maybe Joe will start to understand at least one point of a recumbent after all!
And…what’s wrong with that Yehuda???
Having had 3 beloved rides stolen–two from inside my garage–I get this. The ’96 Specialized steel bike lives in the garage and is locked down. the Cervélo stays in the living room…and is ALSO locked down.
“Sometimes the things I own, they own me too….”
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It’s nice to have a guest from Tralfamador. Greetings to you too!
Yes, I actually regretted having a shiny new ride because of this phobia. It really takes away a lot of the pleasure of the new and shiny! Nevermind, it didn’t get stolen before it started to get knocked around, so it’s all balanced now.
I brought my bike into the hallway of the office building where my chiropracter is. The landlord saw me and about had kittens. “You can’t bring that in here!”
Why not?
“You don’t bring that into your house, do you???”
I most certainly do, along with all my others. You want to supply a bike rack, I might consider using it.
He was stunned that I would bring one bike in the house; the idea of multiples left him apoplexic. Of course, I had no intention of using a bike rack, which was fine; he never installed one anyway.
When I was a school governor nobody took exception to my bringing a (folded) Birdy into the committee rooms – in fact it generated interest & approval. I never tried it an unfolded “normal” (ie. DF) bike, as I felt sure I would have had a different reaction.
I’ll now never know whether it was a lack of conviction on my part or an accurate assessment of non-cyclists’ prejudices.
Talking about numb hands etc – I had put thousands of miles on my Pollard before my heart attack. Afterwards I had it rebuilt as I had no memories to do the job myself at the time. As I was unable to reach down to change gear with the downtube shifter, I had straight bars fitted with Shimano (RapidFire?) changers.
I had gone from a simple 15-speed setup to a 24-speed one. At the time I thought all was well until my first ride over a half-hour long when my fingers began to tingle. As my rides got longer, the tingling got worse until I was getting home unable to write or even use cutlery!.
I still don’t know how to cure this. ‘Newton’ the new Tandem-Trike still has it’s old geometry (From being a club racing bicycle-tandem before the front-wheels modification to trike) but that also has straight bars instead of dropped, only I don’t get the numbness!
If anybody knows what is going on I would really appreciate hearing from you. I am attached to the Pollard but having discovered it’s racing pedigree and the faults with the steering (no self-steer so I can’t ride ‘hands-off’ etc) I am seriously considering moving on if I can’t fix it…
Why did you switch to flat bars? You could have switched to drop bar brifters to work with the 24 speed setup. This is what I have done with all my old steel bikes.
usually the palm tingling and numbness comes from resting weight on there. a recumbent rider should not have this problem. ergonomic grips are one possible solution. this is more common on flat bar road bikes… usually drop bar road bikes allow enough variation in hand positions and with padded cycling gloves on, tend to be okay for the longer rides.
from time to time i have a dream with slightly changing content but the very same feeling i got while i slowly realized that my bike was stolen the first time.
though in the dream it never gets actually stolen but its an everlasting time span i spend searching for it coz when it happened in reality i lost orientation and wasnt quite sure about the place i left it.
my ultimate nightmare