By Susan Reimer, The Baltimore Sun<\/p>\n
Watching Matt Gilman use his bike like a two-wheeled pogo stick, bouncing from giant wooden box to slightly smaller wooden box, your heart is in your throat waiting for a nasty spill.<\/p>\n
When he rears up on his back wheel on the highest box, like the Lone Ranger on Silver, you instinctively look away.<\/p>\n
The ballet that Gilman dances on his bike requires strength and balance, but, apparently, not sight, because Gilman is a blind bike trials rider. By Susan Reimer, The Baltimore Sun Watching Matt Gilman use his bike like a two-wheeled pogo stick, bouncing from giant wooden box to slightly smaller wooden box, your heart is in your throat waiting for a nasty spill. When he rears up on his back wheel on the highest box, like the Lone Ranger on … <\/p>\n
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\nGilman rides rocks and mountain trails, too, following a friend who puts a clicker on his wheel so Gilman can follow the sound. "That’s actually the scariest thing I do."
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