tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post1765353226147130015..comments2024-03-14T11:50:14.761-04:00Comments on DarwinCatholic: On Riding a BikeDarwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572976822786862149noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-22068062735450078292009-09-04T00:47:39.100-04:002009-09-04T00:47:39.100-04:00What a lovely image--it's giving me Shenandoah...What a lovely image--it's giving me Shenandoah nostalgia!<br /><br />In the heyday of the banana-seater, we used to devise scrap lumber-and-cinderblock ramps and jump them. Amazingly, I don't remember any serious injuries, though I suspect the demise of that style of bike had something to do with its track record for them. <br /><br />Now D, I'm told, once experienced a brake failure--coasting downhill in bare feet. I'm sure he cut quite a figure soaring over the handlebars when he hit the guardrail at the bottom of the street.CMinorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07305306030099439903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-83060955580589619552009-09-02T09:51:18.135-04:002009-09-02T09:51:18.135-04:00Beautiful photo :)
Reading people's memories a...Beautiful photo :)<br />Reading people's memories always brings mine back to me and I distinctly remember my mom on the doorway watching me disappear in the horizon not on a bicycle but on a pony ... I was 6!Gabriellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07063728426506582563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-4955279464940692922009-09-01T22:32:03.200-04:002009-09-01T22:32:03.200-04:00It was nine acres.
Yes, but the driveway only ran...<i>It was nine acres.</i><br /><br />Yes, but the driveway only ran across three of them.mrsdarwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03446744635277205867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-61321741224310372692009-09-01T21:18:45.761-04:002009-09-01T21:18:45.761-04:00It was nine acres. And don't forget the beauti...It was nine acres. And don't forget the beautiful view of the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the far distance ending where the blue sky began. Congrats to Julia on her bike riding skills. Cute pink helmet!Grandmanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-74056510905478847752009-09-01T14:46:15.914-04:002009-09-01T14:46:15.914-04:00How wonderfully told. My own son found his legs, ...How wonderfully told. My own son found his legs, uh, wheels himself this summer. It was with satisfaction and joy and sadness as I watched him ride around the corner by himself for the first time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com