Wednesday is two days before the WordPress challenge changes, so I’d better get busy. Nobody wants to go to the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame in Davis, California and leave the prize display in pieces. Why they told us we could all take turns riding the antique bicycle, I can’t imagine. Something must have foreshadowed that this might happen. Look at how delicately thin the wheels are. Even stabilized on a stand, it looked delicate.
Justin got on the same way the rest of us did, only maybe slightly more gracefully. “One foot is placed on a peg above the back wheel. The rider grasps the handlebar, scoots and lifts himself into the saddle.[26]” Wikipedia
Taking headers off the high-riders commonly occurred in the 1890s when the Penny-Farthing was in its heyday. But Justin watched most of us maneuver the “ordinary” machine without a single misstep. So he got on unsuspecting any danger.
We could see the foreshadowing of disaster as he confidently swung his legs.
Whee, at this point WE knew….
I’m not sure how he got off in one piece, and he wasn’t sure what went wrong, but he was sure something had.
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Marsha Ingrao - Always Write 
26 responses to “Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreshadow”
That must have been fun riding that old time bike.
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It was. Of course it was on a stand, so it didn’t go anywhere.
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Not a good place for a person with vertigo, so I’ll just take your word for it!
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Now there’s a woman to love – someone who will just take MY word for it. That makes me the expert! OK You are the winner today! 🙂
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I wouldn’t have wanted to try that; glad he is okay! Oh it looks like I can post comments again today!
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Yay! 🙂 Welcome back from the spam! 🙂
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🙂
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Scary ride, that is. I wobble on the new-fangled “safety bicycle” that’s been out a few years, or decades, or century!! Great post.
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Thanks, Sir. I bet you exaggerate about your wobbliness. 🙂 I see foreshadowed in your future a video of you riding your safety bicycle! 🙂 hehehe Did I just plant that idea in Bab’s head???? hehehehe
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You absolutely HAVE!!
P.S. Fantastic post!! Glad he emerged unharmed from the ordeal. Such a fate would have been similar, perhaps farm more sinister and disastrous, had I been there that day! Oh dear…the horror to imagine.
Just loved this. Excellent!!!
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Really Autty, it was pretty safe – even for you! And I would have insisted that you wear a helmet! Justin took his legs off the pedals and just coasted. Little did he know that his front and back wheels were not moving in the same directions! 🙂
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An excellent mode of transportation, all the same. I wouldn’t mind really trying to ride one! Har har!!
Sir and I just returned from an electric car meet organized by Ideas. It was too groovy. Another splendid form of transportation. There were Volts, Leafs, and very darling Teslas present- and then I was in heaven when I found myself draped over an electric motorbike….it was STUPENDOUS! The owner was very proud. I obtained some footage of him driving off at the end of the event- it was dark but headlights appeared and lit him right up. Utopia. Sir and I got to crawl around in the cars too. It was just delightful.
Cheers!!
babs
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Vince’s son would love for me to get an electric motor bike. It does look like loads of fun! 🙂
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Aye!!! ARG sounds like an exquisite plan! I look forward to photos of you and your future EM. Fabulous!! I must admit that it was oh so tempting to bump the electric motorbike rider off, hop on, and hum away silently into the night…oh yes…
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I can definitely see myself on one. 🙂
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I would greatly enjoy capturing video footage of that, too GROOVY!
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🙂
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Rather him than me. What fun pics, Marsha. 🙂
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haha Oh Sylvia, you could do it easily!
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Cool bike. How ever would you ride that thing?
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I got on it, and that was hard enough even with it stabilized!
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Cool – that you tried it though!
Neat experience 🙂
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It was a lot of fun! :0
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Oops!
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Yes, it certainly was.
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