[python] Re: riding attempts


On 18 dec 2006, at 11.04, Rhisiart Gwilym wrote:



Siwmae pawb,
Solidarity Jim and Stephan! I'm a bit older, and about to undergo the same baptism of tarmac. I really look forward to launching out on Jurgen's mystical journey towards joining the elect. But I'm wondering: since my plan, like Jim, is to have both single-wheel and two-wheel trailers (back ends), interchangeable on the one front end, and I'm building everything at once, should I start learning on the trike rig rather than the bike? My instinct is to learn on the bike, with a pair of thick-walled industrial gloves, and then switch to triking now and then when I'm competent, and I need to haul a load. Also, I have this intuition that part of the often-described mystical epiphany of advanced python-masters comes from powering, steering AND balancing the bike all by the same single harmonious learned action. Sort of biker's tai chi. I guess you don't get quite that on a trike.....? 

What guidance from the trailblazers?
With an ending like that I feel the need to be humble. I have not ridden mid steered bikes for many years but I have found great pleasure in challenging my balance (mental & physical) in different ways; by practising tai chi, riding regular recumbent bikes, riding mid steered recumbents and also unicycles. What I have learned is that in all those activities technique plays a bigger role than balance. This means for instance that I have little benefit from being able to ride my unicycles when trying a new mid-steered bike. Every skill has to be larned on its own prerequisites. Balance is of course improving over time but what really matters is your will and eagerness to learn. You know, beginner's mind ... being a child all over again. So either you go from two wheel to three or in the opposite direction you will have to learn and relearn. Why not start with the thing that feels most tempting? 


olaf


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