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GIRLS RIDE NO HANDS Old version

We are passing in B & W

This site is now rebuilt in its original colors, and with more content... (except the Orange Announcement and the Red News) at THIS LINK. Because this old version will be closed On Oct 26 - 2009, the illustrations the titles and the links of this Home Page are now passed in B & W. Only what's really important on this page will stay in colors... Except the FlagCounter of which flags colors cannot be changed into B & W, so it will keep all its colors ONLY FOR THAT REASON.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT - ((((( UPDATED PLEASE READ )))))

YAHOO WILL CLOSE GEOCITIES ON OCTOBER 26 - 2009, SO THIS SITE WILL REMAIN ALIVE UNTIL THIS DATE!

THEN IT WILL BE DOWN DEFINATIVELY, SO WE DECIDED TO MIGRATE TO ANOTHER FREE WEB HOSTING SERVICE.
AFTER A LONG SEARCHING TIME, WE FOUND A GOOD ONE. THE NEW URL OF THIS SITE IS THIS LINK
YOU CAN CHECK IT OUT REGULARLY AT THE MOMENT ALL THE SITE IS ONLINE,
BUT IT MAY GROW, SO YOU COULD FIND LITTLE SUPRISES DAY AFTER DAY... PERHAPS...

BUT PLEASE READ ALSO THE NEWS BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN SIGNIFICANTLY UPDATED
BECAUSE THERE IS NEW SPEECH IN THE NEWS MARKED WITH THESE "NEW" ANIMATED GIFS

AND ALSO WE'RE REALLY TIRED OF THE (GROWING BTW) YOUTUBE'S DICTATORSHIP!

Perhaps we will create ALSO a Blog. But for the moment it's just a project...
Blogs are not as fine as websites, But they are free too. For more news stay tuned.

The "GirlsRideNoHands" Team.

Last update: 10-15-2009

Welcome to the "Girls Ride No Hands" home page.

This is the site for girls who enjoy riding their bicycles (pedal cycles) "no hands" or anyone else who may be interested. It is my tribute to girls who ride no hands. I had my first bike when I was about 10. It was only a second hand one but I loved it. I soon discovered how easy it was to ride no hands on it. And once I became confident riding with my hands hanging down beside me or in my pockets I just wanted to ride no hands all the time.

I always take the opportunity to ride no hands whenever I am on my bike which is most days. Riding "no hands" makes me feel good, feel confident and to me is very cool.

I hope you enjoy the site and would welcome your feedback, news, stories and most importantly more photos or videos links to go on this site.

We need your help to make this site better

We wish to publish on the site a collection of photos and videos (links only for bandwith reasons) of girls riding no hands and stories about no hands riding by girls. If you have any such photos and/or videos, stories and you would like to see them on this site, please e-mail them to me at alexhall61@hotmail.com If you wish to include mini biographical information or a story associated with the photo or the video link, please do so.

Idea, Concept and Creation: Alexandra Hall, Milton Keynes, England. E-mail: alexhall61@hotmail.com

Webmaster and technical dude: Rich Ride, Le Mas Loges, France. E-mail: rich_ride159@hotmail.com

No counter needed anymore

Links

Picture Gallery # 1

Picture Gallery # 2

Picture Gallery # 3

The first videos page! (Total: 30 videos)

The second videos page! (Total: 21 more videos)

The third videos page! (Total: 3 more video)

NEW & GREAT: The Donors videos page! (Total: 12 more videos) MANY THANKS TO ALL OF THEM!

An English / French site based on GIRLSRIDENOHANDS can be found at: www.oocities.org/fillesavelosanslesmains

NEWS: We are passing in RED Alert

Why Red Alert? Just read these news...

YOUTUBE HIDES TO US THE GIRLS RIDING NO HANDS VIDEOS!
   INDEED!!! - TONS AND TONS OF GUYS RIDING NO HANDS VIDEOS
   CAN BE FOUND ON YOUTUBE, AND NO GIRLS RIDING NO HANDS
    VIDEOS ARE FINDABLE!!! - NONE AT ALL!!! - AT LEAST FOR US OF
   COURSE... DOES THAT MEAN THAT GIRLS DO NOT POST VIDEOS
   OF THEM RIDING NO HANDS AT ALL??? OR WORST: DOES THAT
   MEAN THAT GIRLS DON'T HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF THE FUN THAT
   IS RIDING NO HANDS??? - OBVIOUSLY NO!!! ANYWAY THIS SORT
   OF SEXISM IS AN INJUSTICE!!! - AND THE CULPRIT IS YOUTUBE...
      AND AS YOUTUBE BELONGS NOW TO GOOGLE, THE LATTER
   IS CULPRIT TOO AND EVEN MORE COS GOOGLE IS IN CHARGE!!!

Indeed, nothing for a delay of now SIX months (On Sun 09-20-2009) and continuing to increase day after day!
except of course our Donors Videos Page, that really gave a second life to this site: Many thanks again for them!
This, By The Way, proves that the videos weren't hidden to our donors because they could find them! Unlike us.

SO WHY HIDE THE VIDEOS TO US ONLY??? OUR SITE IS LEGAL! AND JUST ABOUT FUN!!!

As you may noticed we got our last really NEW video (On Tue 03-21-2009) after about a month and a week with
none at all... A delay greater than the usual average for our kind of videos. It looks like, for an unknown reason,
that Youtube stopped providing us this kind of videos for a delay now really uncanny and straight out abnormal!

Obviously this hides something else, A problem that makes us suspecting that Youtube hates this site as
we use "their" videos in order to build our own site! But we do find really unacceptable to be screwed like this!
(The videos exist, Our generous donors proved this, But us, Unlike them we cannot find the videos!)

This is a dishonor towards freedom! And this even in spite of the fact that Geocities (so this site) will be closed as
Yahoo consider that Geocities are obsolete... the deadline is Oct 26 2009. We are sad, but this is a Yahoo decision!

We are sorry and we hoped that the situation could be back to normal as soon as possible. But now we seriously
doubt and however, we have to confess that this is a rather easy way to fill a website, But who cares?
This site has its audience, so there was people enjoying it... THAT is important! So why persisting to hide?
Try to ask Youtube (if you find a link for that!), But we DO NOT think that they deign to give a reply!

Anyway we moved to another FREE server, As we say in the ORANGE ANNOUNCEMENT, And at the top of this
page, after having working hard on this, The LINK to the new site is in it, Thank you for your patience, your
understanding, And please accept our sincerest apologies. The site is now moved at the above LINK (Top of page).

So if anybody makes or finds a video and wishes to see it on the new site, Please send its URL by email like
donors did, We will keep you anonymous because we DO NOT want that Youtube has ANY knowledge about you all!
Sorry for people who'd want to see their names on the new site, But we hope you understand that we can't!
This situation will remain unchanged until Youtube changes this stupid comportment... (Of course it they do!!!)

   Now please use preferably the e-mail way, Because as the guestbook is on Geocities too,
   it will be also deleted when Yahoo closes Geocities, so after this deadline no guestbook.

Just that is really great and very kind, thanks.

IMPORTANT: NO SPEECH LIKE THIS ON THE NEW SERVER! AND BTW THE PREMATURE DELETION
OF THIS SITE SHOULD BE THE ABSOLUTE PROOF THAT WE ARE SAYING THE SAD TRUTH...

BUT NO DELETION DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE LIE THOUGH...

(Reminder: The official closing date is Oct 26 2009).

The "GirlsRideNoHands" Team.

Last update: 10-15-2009.

A very nice girl: Mandy let us post her DeviantArt photo: Click here (DA) or here  (our version)
(Then click on the back button of your browser to go back here.)

It is very rare to be authorized to use a DeviantArt photo on another website. DeviantArt has terribly strict copyright policies.

You can see her Deviantart account at this adress: http://1984mlr.deviantart.com         Thank you very much Mandy!

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True "No Hands" stories

Stories culled from the internet

Moved to the newly hosted site

How to ride "no hands"

I have often been asked for tips from people who want to learn to ride "no hands". Having given the matter a little thought, the following tips should help anyone who wants to learn this. It assumes you are a reasonably confident cyclist.

Firstly, you need a bike where the handlebars are not loose and floppy.

Secondly, when you first give this a try, pick a day with little wind and a road which is level. If neither of these are possible, make sure the wind is behind you and you are going down the slope; don�t try to learn to ride "no hands" against the wind, up an incline or down anything more than a gradual slope.

Thirdly. When you are ready to try, ride your bike reasonably quickly and in a straight line... Or at least as straight as possible. Get to a situation when you are not wobbling at all. When you have reached this stage, rest your hands lightly on top of the handlebars and then try moving both hands together just above the handlebars. Keep pedaling not to reduce your speed. If you cannot keep pedaling then make sure that you are not riding too slowly. Keep trying until you find that you can ride no hands for seconds at a time.

Finally. It is then just practice. You have almost cracked it. Try to practice with the same bike everyday. Within a few days your should be riding "no hands" with the best of them. You will find that once you have "cracked it" it comes as easy as riding normally. You can turn corners and even ride more slowly with "no hands", making the bike wobble from side to side.

If you find that you cannot achieve "no hands" after some practice, change the bike, no other solution. Some bikes are just not "no hands" friendly. In my experience, most bikes can be ridden "no hands", but some are much easier to ride in that way than others.

I have taught a few friends to ride "no hands" in this way and most have succeeded within a few practice sessions. One girl took to it so easily, she was cornering "no hands" after less than one hours of practice.

Good luck.

Note from technical dude: More info on this "no hands" learning at this page. New tips & info. Don't let you get fooled by a bike.

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Be Safe!

Riding no hands is not as safe as normal riding. Therefore, please do not ride no hands in heavy traffic. Use quiet residential roads or country lanes.

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NEW: Since (Fri) 07-18-2008 a Map and a Flag Counter have been added to this page.

So now you can see the world views of this site, at least the map is only approximative, But it gives an idea rather close to the reality.

IMPORTANT: This Map and this Flag Counter are NOT tracking features. They are unable to track anyone anyways, But just to show the approximate geographical locations and the countries where this site is viewed from... Nothing more! So no tracking for sure...

Anyway if you don't trust us for whatever reason simply go to: www.oocities.org/fillesavelosanslesmains there, NO Map, NO Flag Counter.

This was our new Map.

This new one has been installed Only since (Wed) 09-17-2008.
It worked, But was not customizasble at all, so yes we miss our good old
pink Free Hits Map (with kisses and hearts), But the site is down.
This one did not display the names of the towns But is donwn...
so it no longer works... We have not much luck with maps...

Create your own Visitors location counter

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And the Flag Counter

This one is installed since (Fri) 07-18-2008.
so since more than two months before the new map.
IT STAYS COLOURED BECAUSE THE FLAGS CANNOT PASS IN
B & W SO IT KEEPS ITS COLORS FOR THIS REASON ONLY.

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Some last tech words: As maintenance is done from France, it's normal that the biggest number of visitors on the Flagcounter are there, all my visits count particularly when I do maintenance. By the way Thank you Alexandra for trusting me so much for the maintenance of your site. It's truely appreciated.

And sorry about my bitching against Youtube in the RED ALERT NEWS, But in my opinion this is (to say the less) all they deserve!

Now (and to everyone who is interested): We do hope that you enjoyed this site.

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