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New "Figured it out" -- you mean your name? Yeah, I'm pretty sure I remember.
And, hey, thanks for the offer! :-) Yeah, I'd love to see America some time... I think I must be about the same age my parents were when they went there. And sometime in the next three years would seem the best moment for it, before you elect your next Trump and sink totally back into the Dark Ages; who knows if you'll ever emerge from that (at least in our lifetimes)[1].

But I'd like to bring my family, and take them for a longer trip around the country etc, which would probably take some advanced scheduling around jobs, school, and compulsory military duty. Plus the Corona situation could well stabilise a little before we make any travel plans at all... So probably not this year, and possibly not the next-- damn, this seems to leave just late 2023 - early 2024? Scheisse!

But honestly, just tell her to practice using only (or at least, overwhelmingly mainly) the front brake. A few 60-yard runs back and forth on a flat stretch of asphalt should suffice to get a feel for it. And if she still wants in-person help after that, maybe a Zoom session? :-)

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[1]: Have you read Neal Stephenson's Fall (or, Dodge in Hell)? The first of his novels that I was overall disappointed in; the second half / last third or thereabouts was... Off, somehow. Weird, longwinded, boring. But still, being a Stephenson, overall the book still had a lot to speak for it. Particularly the bit (just before it goes bad IIRC) where a bunch of young people take a road trip across the north-western part of the country, through "Facebook America". Can't tell if it was more hilarious than scary, or the other way around.
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   Christian R. Conrad
The Man Who Apparently Still Knows Fucking Everything


Mail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi
New Haven't read that one
I read many of his books since snow crash in the mid-80s. And then he basically invented cybercurrency.
New It's a sequel, so no use reading it before the first one. (Which was really good.)
     Pedego element electric bike - (crazy) - (17)
         Seeing her do that would terrify me -NT - (drook) - (1)
             It did -NT - (crazy)
         Thank for the pointer. Good luck, be careful! -NT - (Another Scott)
         Ride safely! -NT - (a6l6e6x)
         On a real motorcycle, you want to use the front brake - (scoenye) - (12)
             Grey area - (drook) - (2)
                 Key part is the last sentence - (scoenye) - (1)
                     On a motorcycle, yes - (drook)
             On a bicycle too. That "Use the rear brake!" BS is... Well, BS. -NT - (CRConrad) - (8)
                 I don't claim to be competent - (crazy) - (7)
                     Dad was on a motorcycle or bicycle? - (drook) - (1)
                         Bicycle. My dad was way too careful to ever ride a motorcycle - (crazy)
                     Can't see why a flight should be necessary. Are you saying... - (CRConrad) - (4)
                         Seriously? - (crazy) - (3)
                             "Figured it out" -- you mean your name? Yeah, I'm pretty sure I remember. - (CRConrad) - (2)
                                 Haven't read that one - (crazy) - (1)
                                     It's a sequel, so no use reading it before the first one. (Which was really good.) -NT - (CRConrad)

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