lookingforhead: (City Ride Shoulder)
lookingforhead ([personal profile] lookingforhead) wrote in [community profile] thefarshore 2018-02-08 08:31 pm (UTC)

I'm not a mechanic but I know the basics.

[She guides him through a brief explanation of how the bike works, pointing out the engine, the brakes and the throttle, doing her best to compare what they do to how one would control a horse. It seems like the best analogy and most of all it makes sense to her.]

Of course it makes a lot of noise and I need to come back to fill it with gas. It's not perfect but

it's better for me than just walking everywhere.


[The bike still doesn't feel like quite the proper fit to her but there's something about the speed and mobility it gives her that reaches some deep place inside her.]

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