Stealth Cycling

Post by **Mick F** » 24 Jul 2008, 1:32pm

Now that I've lavished loads of grease inside my rear hub, the freewheel is totally silent!

I can now creep up behind pedestrians without making a sound.

...... and shout BOO!

gaz · Post by **gaz** » 24 Jul 2008, 8:35pm

orangechimp · Post by **orangechimp** » 26 Jul 2008, 12:16am

Hope hubs that's the way forward, nice and load, in fact you don' need a bell if you have them, just freewheel for a bit as you're approaching, and they soon move out of the way.

WesBrooks · Post by **WesBrooks** » 27 Jul 2008, 12:04am

orangechimp wrote:Hope hubs that's the way forward, nice and load, in fact you don' need a bell if you have them, just freewheel for a bit as you're approaching, and they soon move out of the way.

The trick is to get real close without free wheeling (slow of course) then free wheel when a few feet away. Makes 'em jump out of your way! Great technique for getting across busy shared space in the uni. Air Zound being a last resort! :twisted:

mhara · Post by **mhara** » 27 Jul 2008, 7:00am

Yes. Freewheel click-clicketty is most useful.

It always cleared me a path when riding through the straggling pupils at our large secondary school

These were teenagers who never got out of the way of the teachers' cars.
I realised (after seeing a few pupils deliberately riding their bikes into the back of their 'friends' :shock:

) that the path-clogging pupils had no idea if it was me behind them or one of said 'friends'. :wink:

reohn2 · Post by **reohn2** » 27 Jul 2008, 8:08am

Not exactly stealth cycling but,whilst out on Wednesday I saw a white van in a lay bye with driver completely zonked out asleep (with face pressed against window looking like it'd been a 4am start)and thought,I wonder how high he'd jump if I whacked the side of the van with the flat of my hand :shock:

,not that I would do such a thing at my age,but I may have been tempted when I was fourteen!