the GOT bike

Definitely not mad, that would be crazy! Back in the days when I was teaching riding skills clinics, I learned to start with how to hop the bike over an obstacle, usually a log. While some might consider this a more advanced skill, it was a good place to start because it requires a significant back and forward weight shift, and movement of body weight is fundamental to all bike control. Secondly, when students saw me clear a two foot high log, just brushing it with my tires, I generally had their attention for the rest of the class, which is also a goid place to start. At some point in that class, I'd say that a bike isn't really controlled with the arms, but rather the hips, as the center of the body's mass. Where the hips go, the weight goes. Then, when I injured the nerve that enervates my left arm, I learned that the arms are pretty useful for moving the hips around on a bike. No arm pull meant no snap forward of my hips, and that meant I couldn't hop logs, pretty m...