Posted on 07/18/2022 2:49:21 PM PDT by montag813
by Samantha Foster | 24News
President Biden fell off his bike while riding near his home in Rehoboth Beach in June.
According to reports, Biden had trouble removing his shoes from the bikes’ pedals.
Secret Service agents swarmed the fallen commander-in-chief after he needed help getting back up.
Feeble Joe Biden quickly got up and chatted with the reporters and Delaware bystanders. He also went over to a little girl on the beach.
Watch:
Now there is an official landmark at the location where Joe Biden fell off his bike while it as at a complete stop.
It’s labeled “Brandon Falls” in honor of Joe Biden.
The Brandon Falls landmark was live on Monday afternoon in Delaware.
Here’s a closer view of Rehoboth, Delaware where Joe tumbled.
(Excerpt) Read more at us24news.com ...
Don’t try to tell me this country has forgotten her roots in the landmarks where heroes risked all.🎆🍻
Rumor has it the I’ve Fallen And I Can’t Get Up School of Standup Comedy has partially underwritten the statue and bronze bicycle to go along with the placque. 😁
LOL! A vacated destination, where the vacant Brandon spilled.
Trolling at Brandon Falls...
Tragic..it broke open his pudding container.
The good news is a blow to his head seeming didn’t do any harm to his cognitive abilities.
At least noone could tell any difference.
Love this! The reviews are priceless. 😂🤣
...until you think about the strategic implications for the separate Staes of America.
I typed it into Google maps and it took me there but without a thumb tack or label, so it’s still working. So funny!
Makes me wonder if anyone will place a real sign at the trial crossing at Gordon’s Pond Pavilion.
Yeah, whatever you just said.
Right-o. 🙄
I believe that is by Whiskey Beach.
Some pillock let him out on a bike he was unfamiliar with and that was equipped with toe clips. 
Kid's bicycles are made so you can't really apply any power to the pedals any other way except pushing more or less straight down on them. More serious bikes usually have some means of anchoring the rider's shoes to the pedals (such as toe clips) that enables them to apply power through the full 360-degrees of rotation. Recruiting more muscle groups into spinning the pedals means you can go faster.
Toe clips also are known as "rat trap" pedals, and were standard equipment on racers' bikes since the 1800s.
This bike was raced by American Major Taylor, who was a legendary cyclist in the late 1800s but mostly had to race overseas because the American races wouldn't admit a black man. And if you'll look closely you can see it's wearing rat trap pedals.
Also notice it has neither derailleurs not brakes. They was real men back in them days.
But toe clips can be fiddly about getting out of, especially if you're not wearing bespoke cycling shoes. Shoe laces on ordinary "sneaker" are easy to snag on the cages. And if you've committed to putting one foot or the other down as you stop but can't manage to get that foot out of the toe clips, you fall over. So using them does come at a risk but the advantage in power deliver is so great that riders just learned to deal with it.
So-called "clipless" pedals, ones that fixed the rider's feet to the pedal without using the "rat trap" mechanism, had been around since the 1890s but didn't get much traction until the 1970s. And in 1985, aFrench cycling equipment company named "Look" cane out with a design that finally caught on.
These are the original "Look" pedals, with the matching Look cleat on the bottom of the shoe. The cleat snaps in automatically when you step on the pedal and it releases when the rider twists his foot and turns his heel outboard.
It wasn't long before clipless pedals came to dominate the sport. 1987 was the last year any rider won the Tour de France wearing toe clips, ending a century of dominance.
There now are may imitations and alternatives to the Look clipless pedal but if you watch the Tour de France (which happens to be in progress this week), every last rider in the race is wearing some version of a "clipless" pedal.
And every one of them has fallen over -- at least once -- because they leaned the wrong way when coming to a stop and couldn't get the foot on that side unclipped in time.
So it's not a phenomenon exclusive to demoncrats with senile dementia (but that helps).
Still working. And Apple maps does not show it, so pretty cool!
“Brandon Falls! Slowly I turned. Step by step. Inch by inch...”
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