২৬ আগস্ট, ২০১৭

How to get 1 minute of bike track on 1/6 acre of backyard garden.



Meade has optimized a small space. It's not as easy as it may look, and it's a fun place for me to build some confidence.

ADDED: Here's the same backyard in 2013 (in late July):



Meade is demonstrating lawn-mowing there (and we're talking about landscape design that makes lawn-mowing an amusing activity), but I'm showing you this mostly so you can see how much has happened to the garden in the last 4 years.

৩৮টি মন্তব্য:

chuck বলেছেন...

The music needs a waterfall.

Ann Althouse বলেছেন...

It was so hard to figure out the music!

The Godfather বলেছেন...

I'm impressed.

Next Meade needs to add some grades -- all up, of course.

Meade বলেছেন...

"The music needs a waterfall."

That's right. A flow track.

wild chicken বলেছেন...

That's actually pretty good training for bike control.

tcrosse বলেছেন...

An alternative choice of music:
Backyard Bicycle Music

Freeman Hunt বলেছেন...

Pretty ingenious.

Meade বলেছেন...

That reminds me.

নামহীন বলেছেন...

Hope you don't get offended if I say that was really cute.

Btw, beautiful garden.

Meade বলেছেন...

Ha ha. Thanks.

cheddar বলেছেন...

Could get some steps back there on the Fitbit.

madison mike বলেছেন...

Seems to be a 20 second bike path. Were the musicians on the deck?

I covet your landscaping

Dave D বলেছেন...

"Hope you don't get offended if I say that was really cute."

Thought the same thing. The whole miniature bike course brings that on. Also, nice backyard!

rehajm বলেছেন...

There are rotarys exclusively for bikes? Holy crap!

FleetUSA বলেছেন...

Perfect. I am sorry to hear the Prof lacks confidence in anything. Our Goddess.

Ann Althouse বলেছেন...

It's a full minute because he's not repeating. There are 3 routes.

Ann Althouse বলেছেন...

I lack confidence in about half of the things I do, and most things I don't even do.

With mountain biking, I'm at risk of slowing down to be cautious at a turn which can cause me to fall. I'm worried about running into the tree. I'm concerned out on the challenging trail about getting to the top of a climb. There's only a little climb in the backyard. Anyway, it's a nice way to remember that I can pay attention and do it right.

madAsHell বলেছেন...

I'm not sure there is any confidence to be found on such a path.

madAsHell বলেছেন...

Try skiing. I feel like a 15-year-old on Thursday at the pass. The other 15 year olds are in school.

SteveBrooklineMA বলেছেন...

Awesome! Just needs some sweet jumps.

Danno বলেছেন...

Knowing Meade, I was expecting a ramp off the roof culminating with a jump.

Ann Althouse বলেছেন...

There's a jump under the deck, off camera.

Ann Althouse বলেছেন...

I do cross country skiing in the winter, but I really can't do anything that's at all steep if it's curved. I didn't learn to do it at all until I was 58, so I expect little of myself. I've never done downhill skiing and it really is too late for that. I have a legitimate fear of falling.

Guildofcannonballs বলেছেন...

On Using "How to ..."

Isn't there a prejudiced bias against other potential ways to ... thereby warranting a caveat or 8000?

What if someone with a different way looks at the credentials here and feels too inferior to creatively proceed?

I recommend, instead of the Orwell-hated* "How to" garnering of whatever it is that God-how-I-wish-it-were-peculiar locution garners, the elegant "One way" or "A method to" or maybe "Temporally wise configurations..."

*you gotta trust me here

Jessica বলেছেন...

So cool! You continue to be an unlikely mento to me, Ann! -- Jessica

mccullough বলেছেন...

Reminds me of the scene in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with Paul Newman riding the bicycle

David বলেছেন...

So is that you getting confidence or Meade showing off?

Yancey Ward বলেছেন...

McCullough beat me to it, I was going to suggest a pen with a bull in it.

BudBrown বলেছেন...
এই মন্তব্যটি লেখক দ্বারা সরানো হয়েছে।
exhelodrvr1 বলেছেন...

Next - the tiny house!

Wince বলেছেন...

I was thinking of this 'Laugh-In' guy from the 1960s.

Ann Althouse বলেছেন...

"So is that you getting confidence or Meade showing off?"

To get Meade showing off, I'd need to follow him out to the mountain biking trails where there are intermediate and advanced tracks. He typically does 3 hours of that sort of thing. So picture 180 times as long on terrain much more complicated and that would be Meade showing off.

rehajm বলেছেন...

You're not far off from this!

sunsong বলেছেন...

kewl

The Elder বলেছেন...

Yeah, but where are we going to play whiffle-ball?

Meade বলেছেন...

Same place we skateboard and play kick-the-can — in the street.

American Liberal Elite বলেছেন...

Now that's a reel mower.

Etienne বলেছেন...
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