We were told - in the mid 60s when the new 10 speed "English Racer" bikes came to America - that you had to perform some complicated 'back pedal' manuever to get it to shift. and that it was impossible to master unless you were British and an expert biker.
A childhood belief about technology
others believed things like this
- I always had to sleep with my feet under the covers or else speed racer would drive over them.Anon
- I used to believe that Jesus' disciples rode motorcycles. It just sounded like the name of a biker group.— James McGee
- I used to believe all of North America was Canada and South America was USA..— Daria
- Pressing on the gas pedal means that your car can do anything...including going up a vertical wall.Anon
- I used to think that the graveyard shift was men that dug graves at night.— bianca w.
- When i was 4 i used to belive my dad was nocternal because he used to do a night shift!— Alien 5247