microcord
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- Aug 28, 2012
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In brief: Are there any recommendable classes in lower-intermediate cycling skills?
Mrs Microcord is less interested in cycling than I am, but when she does it with me I don't think she does it merely as a (bizarre) wifely duty. We're just 3km or so from Tamagawa (near the estuary end). We can go downstream, which is scenic but an obstacle course (baseball-playing kids balancing bags and bats on bikes three sizes too big for them, etc), or upstream, which I have to concede is pretty boring for at least the first 20km or so. Or of course we can ride along roads. But she doesn't like roads, not least because she perceives them as dangerous. And when I see her cycling along them (just on the way to and from Tamagawa), I do indeed think she's at risk of being clipped by a wing mirror, or worse. She swerves. Not violently, but unnecessarily, excessively, and (to anyone other than me) unpredictably.
Can somebody be taught/trained not to swerve? Has anyone heard of classes that give training in this kind of thing?
Mrs Microcord is less interested in cycling than I am, but when she does it with me I don't think she does it merely as a (bizarre) wifely duty. We're just 3km or so from Tamagawa (near the estuary end). We can go downstream, which is scenic but an obstacle course (baseball-playing kids balancing bags and bats on bikes three sizes too big for them, etc), or upstream, which I have to concede is pretty boring for at least the first 20km or so. Or of course we can ride along roads. But she doesn't like roads, not least because she perceives them as dangerous. And when I see her cycling along them (just on the way to and from Tamagawa), I do indeed think she's at risk of being clipped by a wing mirror, or worse. She swerves. Not violently, but unnecessarily, excessively, and (to anyone other than me) unpredictably.
Can somebody be taught/trained not to swerve? Has anyone heard of classes that give training in this kind of thing?