Agree completely...although that couldn't be further from the truth around my joint. I have three boys under 6, and those little suckers are neck deep in anything they can get into!
I am only 38 but remember as a kid riding my bike everywhere, it was a way of life, we all did it. I had the odd experience of having to teach myself to ride one. all my friends were on bikes and I did not want to be left behind. Point is, that all my friends were riding bikes. I saw s few young teenage kids riding bikes a few days ago and...I thought, "I haven't seen that in a while". It was sad. Can't help but think that parents if younger kids have fostered this inactivity due to the perception that it is "not safe" out there. btw, at age 11, I literally got on a friend's bicycle and just rode it. I am guessing that being a bit older than your average first time rider, ones motor skills are more developed.
Same here...I'm 40, and when I was a kid, if your happy azz didn't ride there, you pretty much weren't GOING there.
ditto. 40 here too. and when my brother and i were kids in the country, we'd have to ride our BMX bikes into town (5-7 kilometers?) to go to the community pool. or else, we'd have nothing else to do. simpler times. But i'm sure every generation says that about the one coming up. "kids today have it easy, listen to bad music, don't have enough respect....etc." and for the most part, it's true.
Me to, but I wanted a new one , parents said ,yeah you can have a new bike but you have to pay for it yourself , I got a paper route , put one in layaway at the bicycle shop , paid it in full and brought home a brand new Schwinn Stingray . I was proud of that bike
Remember that we can't raise heroes but we can raise sons. Now, if you treat them as sons, they most likely will turn out to be heroes, even if it is just in our own eyes. The same can be said for daughters.
That's great...all of my bikes as a kid were cobbled together from various discarded bikes that my dad scrounged from the scrap heap at the local dump lol...I still thought they were badass though! I eventually raised enough money splitting wood in high school to buy my first new bike...a Trek mountain bike for $300! Man, I loved that bike.
I had some cool cobbled together bikes different size wheels on em , bikes way to big for me. Ended up trading that Schwinn Stingray for a Transmission that went out on my first car , bike was in perfect shape
I remember the doctors really getting at my parents to "Get that boy a bike!" I had polio and they thought it would help to strengthen my legs. I was 6 or 7 when I got my first bike and yes, it was a cobbled together thing but it lasted me for many years until I needed a bigger bike. By then I was working for a neighbor milking his cows and earned enough money that I went to the Montgomery Ward store and bought a new one. I was proud of that bike! Where did all the Montgomery Ward stores go?
I feel you...my plan is to move the wood from my "miscellaneous hardwoods" and Poplar Hausen into the woodshed around the first of September after they've had a chance to sit in the summer sun and wind getting nice and crispy. It'll definitely be hard to tear them down, but hey...that'll mean I've got two open slots for more wood!!!
He's always lurking around ready to pounce, I mean comment. You have to be pretty quick to get in ahead of Eric.
