This thread has brought back childhood memories for me, too. My sisters and I played a game we called "Cars, Trucks and Motorcycles" in which we would pretend our bikes were motor vehicles and that we were riding through towns and on highways rather than around in circles between the house and barn. We would take turns calling out traffic signal changes. Would that make mine a "dashboard"?
On Monday, September 12, 2016 at 6:52:28 PM UTC-4, Richard Rios wrote: > > In the spirit of Grant and Rivendell and just riding, like when we were > kids and not worrying about it so much. I think cockpit is a great name for > it, and in no uncertain way trying to somehow elevate the humble bike. > Quite the contrary actually. As I have heard it said riding a bike is as > close to flying as you can get without wings. Sure feels like that to me... > When I was a kid and rode my bike down big hills and got into an "aero" > tuck I would sometimes make machine gun noieses and pretend I was in a > fighter plane. In fact when not chasing down roadies on my rivendell for > giggles, I still do... That is pretend I am flying and make ratatatat > noieses with my mouth. So rock on cock pitters. But be warned if you ever > see me rollin up from behind you on a fast downhill, know you might find > yourself in my cross hairs and will be shown no quarter...and I expect the > same !) > > Richard "aka red baron" Rios > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
