15 June 2004 @ 08:19 am
Ouch.  
I'm sore. Muscles I haven't used for years have come out of retirement and are now picketing for the right to go back into retirement. Why did I decide last night would be the perfect night to drag my bike out from the back of the shed and cycle uphill to my sister's house? It's only a couple of miles away which makes it even worse, but I haven't seen my bike for four years let alone thought about using it for anything other as a handy stand for my jacket...

And when I say I cycled there, I cycled some of the way, realised bike gears don't seem to work the same as car gears and had to wheel it up the steepest parts of the hill, so it was a kind of cycle/get off and walk pitiful attempt... And how come I know the way back to my house is downhill from hers, and yet last night it was all uphill?! How is that possible? Was there some kind of shift in the Earth's gravitational pull that switched downhill to uphill without it hitting the news? I knew I was unfit but this was rediculous.

I'm sore...
 
 
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[identity profile] rileysaplank.livejournal.com on June 15th, 2004 01:25 am (UTC)
From what I remember (I haven't used my bike in years either) a bikes gears are in reverse to a cars gears. So the faster you want to go, the lower the gear you use. Somebody will probably correct me on this, 'cos I'm not completely sure if that's the case or not.

Andy

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[identity profile] whiskyinmind.livejournal.com on June 15th, 2004 01:34 am (UTC)
Thought that might be the case - so for more power I want to be in a higher number gear? Like 8 or 9? (the same as 2nd gear in cars)

You know, that almost sounds like I'm going to use the bike again doesn't it? *grin*
[identity profile] rileysaplank.livejournal.com on June 15th, 2004 02:34 am (UTC)
From what I can remember, yes. Higher gears for going uphill, lower gears for going faster.

Andy

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[identity profile] whiskyinmind.livejournal.com on June 15th, 2004 02:42 am (UTC)
Cheers - I'll give that a go tonight. Yes, I am planning on not giving up on the bike thing. *grin* That sentence is quite possibly the most grammitically incorrect thing I've ever written!
[identity profile] rileysaplank.livejournal.com on June 15th, 2004 03:39 am (UTC)
bout the hill bit, it's nowhere near the electric brae is it? You're not that near to Ayr, are you?

Andy

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[identity profile] whiskyinmind.livejournal.com on June 15th, 2004 04:15 am (UTC)
LOL! No, nope that close to it - and that would have actually helped anyway... *grin*
[identity profile] smhwpf.livejournal.com on June 15th, 2004 03:46 am (UTC)
Normally you call the gears on a bike for going fast (but hard work) High, and the easy but slow gears Low. But what you want for Low gears (that is for going uphill) is the big wheels on the back cog, and the small wheels on the front cog (if you have more than one at the front.) Try out which way the gear levers work before you reach the hills!
[identity profile] whiskyinmind.livejournal.com on June 15th, 2004 04:16 am (UTC)
Cool - thanks! I'll definitly try it out tonight, I've been getting so lazy just jumping in the car all the time. You never know, this might be the start of a whole new me!