[python] Re: riding attempts
- From: Olaf Johansson <home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: python@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:33:39 +0100
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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