T-mar,
My sentiments exactly...as far as lawnmowing, that is how I made my spending money to buy bikes and parts. Now it is illegal (at least around here) to hire a neighborhood kid to mow your lawn. And I am sure social services will be more than willing to call it child abuse if a parent were to force a child to perform dangerous labor
My 2 had multiple bicycles, but they were always handed down to the next one in line and when they outgrew them they went to someone else that could use them.
Aaron