Monday, December 19, 2011

Bicycle built for Seven

A week ago, my cheerleaders had a competition in St. Augustine at the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind. It is the same school that Ray Charles attended. It was quite an experience for all of us as most of the event workers were deaf - none of them seemed to be blind. We even got to see the school's cheer team perform. The coach stood in front and counted in sign language to keep the team on beat with the music. Then when the music stopped for them to do their cheer, there was someone who beat a bass drum. The cheerleaders could feel the beat of the drum to cheer to the beat. It was really quite amazing.

On our way out, we saw this contraption:

It is a bike that seats seven!! One person steers and all seven pedal. We were told that it is a strange sensation to pedal and move in a different direction than you are facing. I googled videos of this thing and it is interesting to watch in action. The school uses this for bike rides with blind students. I have learned quite a lot with this cheerleading thing!!

4 comments:

Jen said...

How fascinating! I never would have thought that the deaf/blind school would have their own cheer squad. That would have been neat to see. And that bike. Wow! Mike will want one now to add to our list of family stunts, but then that would mean I will have to birth two more children. No thanks!

Jake and Steph said...

I call I get to steer!

Shoebox Princess said...

That bike looks very Seussian.

TeamCar said...

How cool is that? Fun stuffas!