Blind bike stunt rider overcomes vision loss, obstacle course
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 Silver, you instinctively look away.
The ballet that Gilman dances on his bike requires strength and balance, but, apparently, not sight, because Gilman is a blind bike trials rider.
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Gilman 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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