It Is About The Bike. Comments
It must be fifty years since I last rode a bicycle
but this morning I did ride a ten-speed Apollo
around the flat straight streets of my city.
I felt wobbly to begin with and overbalanced
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Buy a bicycle, from your writing it sounds like you will love cycling!
A good comment. I am seriously thinking of buying that bike, and I'm sure I would like cycling.
Fifty years ago you have rode the last bicycle. Now-a- days lots of change have happened. Riding cycles in safe streets in the past has given unforgettable memories. Slow speed had given safety. An interesting poem is well penned is an excellent poem...10
Yes I had my last bike at 17 at high school. Since then it has been cars all the way. You are right; much has changed these days and cycle lanes make it safer. I think I would like going back to cycling on that 10-speed.
I agree about Armstrong, they may of stripped him of is titles but he still won them, they know that a lot of the other riders do the same, they just didn't do anything about it. Great write.
A very perceptive comment-thanks. No one else has been promoted to take Lance's 7 titles so that says something. I can't help feeling sympathetic to Lance Armstrong.
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7/18/2025 2:17:26 AM # 1.0.0
Two phases of life half a century apart joined together by a bicycle. The way you enjoyed your latest adventure, makes it worth a try. Thanks also for sharing a word on the feats and the misfortune of Lance Armstrong.
It's good that you noticed and appreciated this poem, drawn directly from personal experience. Lance Armstrong is a complex, fascinating character: a sudden rise to fame and celebrity, then a total fall. I have 4 books either by Lance, or about him; and the DVD 'The Armstrong Lie'-very good and long. The title of my poem is hint of his book: 'It's Not About the Bike', which he wrote with sally Jenkins.