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My Bicycle.

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By Dawn EarnshawPublished 3 years ago Updated 3 years ago 3 min read

Hello I am writing this to myself because I have developed a Time MachinE you can go fowards or back in time. I have chose to go back to a time when technology was just spaking in peoples minds and I want to remember my bicycle and design it with somebody who’s creative mind can see round the complexity of all the gears etc etc .I remember my mom saying if you hear any sirens you go down into the basement and wrap yourself in the quilt of many patches around you completely, and over your head. You say the Lord’s Prayer and have faith he will pull you through this my rainbow child. Now think no more of what I have said just keep it firmly in your head, say nothing just remember it’s for your head.

Ahhh I thought she means when I’m on my bicycle. My bicycle takes me to, with the help of me of courseit can go fast, slow even off course, there’s one thing for sure it’s always brings you back on course.

the year is 2023 and we have been told to write a note to send back in time to 18891 and hopefully it will be useful to whoever picks it up because you will be also sending them something you feel is of invaluable too them.

My bicycle is simple they are beautifully elegant machines that just about attract every child, we as a group and friendship ring are always comparing our bikes, there is just something about a kid and his bike, working my way up from tricycles and training wheels. Its exhilarating when you are speeding up a ramp and spin yourseof and bike around, manouvering the bike mid air left to right and left to right, then right to left, almost dancing with it mid flight. It’s dangerous but boy is it fun.

This is the gears on a freewheeling bicycle we can also have what we call a derelileur which they basically change gears so you go faster with out you peddling like a lunatic trying to get somewher, the gear changes allows the bike to go at a much faster speed without you even frantica peddling. I feel like I’m not explaining it as in I know I cannot show you how to make one from scratch but I know there may be a few bicycles left lying around and our worlds were to become intermittent then at least you would have an idea, a light switch may come on and you adapt but I know that you will love the bicycles just as much as we do and this is my message to you about what is my favorite thing to have and how we spend our time together as children. I hope it helps.

The coolest thing about my bike is that it lets you get to and fro from where you are going a lot faster and a lot less energy than if you were walking. And it uses a lot less energy than if you are running.

This is a “high wheeler bicycle“ funny isn’t it,? I know with that tiny back wheel. But this is what you are using at the moment, I mean where is the fun in that, you cannot wheel up a ramp and turn the wheel in mid air left to right. There are a few enthusiasts since we had a Germ warfare in 1990/2020 where it killed billions across the world but they are purly entertaining or a Gentleman Club

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James, James, wake up ….now get up and go plough the field before your Father comes home, use the middle Oxen not worked this week that one, I will send Seth to help shortly, come on come along lad whatever has gotten into in this barn?

I looked around and the barn was full of different animals I was right next to horse dung. Plough the field with a what ? An Oxen. I felt it and there it was a capsule with all notes and graphs and pictures of all sorts in, I couldn’t hold my excitement in. I ran and ran to the nearest village and asked for the ironmongers and a man named Darius smelting iron and bashing it out. Hello Sir my name is James and I’ve come from the year 2023 and I would love it if you could at least look at the Penny Farthing at least.

The End.

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Dawn Earnshaw

Loves writing short stories and poems - learning punctuation and Grammar.ADHD

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