Both Robbie and Maia have long outgrown their tiny beginner's bikes. Both children cycle really well and Robbie especially can spend hours on his midget bike.
Here are Robbie and Maia racing down the driveway to the house.
From this photo, you will see how tiny are their bikes. But they have served the children well. They learnt to ride on these bikes, which each cost about $50 second hand, and they still use them on walks or to race inside the urbanización. At the sight of any muddy puddle or water hole, Robbie is quickly on to his bike and deep into the mud! That is nirvana for Robbie!
The bikes have been to the seaside and to the jungle. Being cheap bikes, their trips to the seaside have been disastrous. It was a major effort each time to free them from salt and to get rid of the rust from the cheap metal.
John got out Nancy's bike during the last weekend, to see, despite its size, if it could be made rideable for the children. It is still in good condition and has some very fancy WTB Primal Raptor tires - it won't be long before those are on John's Klein MTB! Pushing the saddle down to its very lowest was not enough. We went out and got the shortest stem we could and also dropped the bars down to their limit. Almost OK! But Robbie's and Maia's little legs are not yet quite long enough for the pedal cranks. But it won't be long.
Robbie was first and very soon got the hang of swinging a leg over the saddle and the bar and pushing off without any help. He was soon changing gear as well!
Next up was Maia and it was no time before she had the hang of it all. Her legs are a good bit shorter than Robbie's but she quickly grasped how to lean the bike and then get up on a pedal and push away.
Soon John was superfluous to all this and the kids were cycling around as if they had been using this bike for an age.
I wonder how long it will be before the first major bike accident happens?
way to go kids!!!!!! you'll be kickin' yer old man's butt in no time :)
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