Kids & Bikes

Todays pic

Was nice to roll a normal HP ride this morn. The sun is kicking ass today. I was only around Monday and then was two days in Chicago. So still busy trying to catch up with store stuff, wanted to post this morn during my usual time I set aside to do so but I just have so much to do......

This morn while taking said ride and having some coffee I came across a large group of kids riding. I could tell they were from a local school and most likely out for Phy Ed. Must have been at least 30 of them all wearing orange vests. They looked about 14 or so years old.

Then... one of them took a huge digger right in front of me as I drove past (on the other side of the street as I was going the other way). Hit the pavement hard. He was in a group of about 10 bikes or so but looked like he was not riding close to another bike but I only assume he rubbed a back wheel of the bike in front of him.

As the group passed me in waves I could not notice how terrible riders they all were. Weaving back and forth, they seemed to all have a tough time even balancing. Nobody was looking where they were going. No hands on brakes. No wonder that boy hit the road. I cant believe how bad these kids were at bike riding. Its so sad that they just do not ride enough to develop those basic skills.

Very sad.

At that age I was riding a wheelie a block long and clearing 10 foot gaps. And back then they had no riding in school Phy Ed. We learned this on our own.

It just shows how thing change over generations. Cell phones, Xbox and Facebook are the things that  kids use to take up time now and that is getting sadder by the minute.

So if you have a young'en in the family. Get outside and show them how to ride a bike before they are forced to do it in school. But then, if your reading this blog you already do that.

Tell someone else.

DLD