Bike for christmas...

[tankman10024]

Hey
Who else got their kids or someone on their family a bike for christmas? I got both of my boys bikes for christmas.

Ride Safe
tankman

[masiman]

Not this year. The younger ones will be in hand me downs for awhile. Next up for me will be a 24" bike. Probably not next year but the year after that.

[Froderick]

Got the older boy a bike last year, and the younger one one this year. Got a deal on a 2006 model 24" full suspension MTB I couldn't pass up. It's a little big for him, so he's still riding the 15-year-old 20" hand-me-down until he gets another inch or two.

[bikecrate]

I got my daughter a new bike back in September. She learned quickly and has been riding for the last couple of months. It was one of my goals to have her competently cycling by Christmas so we could take a night ride around the neighborhood together and look at all the Holiday lights. So I guess it was a Christmas "gift" for both of us.

[shider]

I bought my daughter (turning 11) a Gary Fisher Tassajara GS. Got it for a steal at the LBS. Of course it was also the sixth bike I've bought from them and on closeout from GF.

[GamecockTaco]

My 6 year old got a Felt F24 for Christmas. Oh, and my 1.5 year old got a Radio Flyer trike - does that count? LOL!

All told last year in my 6 person household we bought 8 bikes - 2 adult road bikes, 1 kid road bike, 1 24" FS MTB, 1 20" MTB, 1 16" Pink bike, 1 trike (1.5 bikes), and 1 unicycle (.5 bike).

[WoodsterSS]

My 6 year old got a Felt F24 for Christmas. Oh, and my 1.5 year old got a Radio Flyer trike - does that count? LOL!

All told last year in my 6 person household we bought 8 bikes - 2 adult road bikes, 1 kid road bike, 1 24" FS MTB, 1 20" MTB, 1 16" Pink bike, 1 trike (1.5 bikes), and 1 unicycle (.5 bike).


The Felt's are great kid sized road bikes. My son loves his (though my wife almost passed out when I told her it was $600. This Christmas she reluctantly let me upgrade my eldest son's off-road rig. I got him a Redline expert 24, ($500) weighing about 16 lbs to replace his tank of a mountain bike. It seems like there needs to be high-end kid bike exchange program out there as they go through these things quickly and other than scratches they are in good shape.

I am a singlespeeder and I now have both of my children on higher end bmx bikes to give them a reasonably light bike and all the blessing of a single gear. By getting the larger bmx sizes, the bikes function like a ss mountain bike. Now we are all "gearing" up for our 3rd Chilly Hilly ride in February.

[BigBlueToe]

We bought our 18-year-old a new bike - a Trek "comfort bike". I don't know the exact model. It's a step-through frame, made out of aluminum. It has light-duty shocks on the front, a suspension seatpost, an adjustable stem, and a fat, cushy seat. She wanted a basket for the front, so we got one. I also bought her a folding basket setup for the back.

She's going off to college in the fall. She wants to use her car as little as possible. She wanted to be able to carry her books and maybe a few groceries in her basket(s).

She's had top-of-the-line mountain bikes since she was 8. It didn't matter. By the time she reached junior high she professed to hate bicycling.

I'm hoping this is an epiphany, although I don't know. She wanted to go for a ride yesterday. "Cool!" I said. We rode about 3/4 of a mile and she said, "That's enough," and turned around and we went home. I didn't even break a sweat.

Maybe after a few years of college she'll get into it. Her boyfriend just got a new bike for college too, and he shows signs of becoming an enthusiast. Maybe it will rub off on her.

The joys of fatherhood, huh? Especially with teenagers.