Well, that's a first
Sep. 2nd, 2008 11:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceSo here I am, stuck in the house again, waiting for a package again (and we know I do not do this with grace or charm), and I was standing at the window watching the traffic because of course we know that makes the delivery-van come quicker; and I saw a man go by on a bike, and I thought there was something odd about it. But still had to look twice and count on my fingers a little before I was clear what the oddness was.
It was a tandem, but he was alone; there was an empty saddle behind him, with empty pedals going round and round.
Which I'm sure must happen often in the life of a tandem, but I've never seen it before. Which is probably not surprising, given how few tandems one does see, but still'n'all and nevertheless. That's something new today. And something learned: the unpumped pedals still go round, regardless. I suppose they'd have to, unless there was a device to disconnect them from the chain. I'd just never considered the matter heretofore. See? Looking out of windows. Good thing. Stuff occurs. He might have passed by all unwatched, which would have been such a pity...
It was a tandem, but he was alone; there was an empty saddle behind him, with empty pedals going round and round.
Which I'm sure must happen often in the life of a tandem, but I've never seen it before. Which is probably not surprising, given how few tandems one does see, but still'n'all and nevertheless. That's something new today. And something learned: the unpumped pedals still go round, regardless. I suppose they'd have to, unless there was a device to disconnect them from the chain. I'd just never considered the matter heretofore. See? Looking out of windows. Good thing. Stuff occurs. He might have passed by all unwatched, which would have been such a pity...