Kids walking their bikes up easy hills
08-04-09, 04:28 PM
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Also brakes do not work or they are disconnected becouse they are rubbing on a wheel that is no longer round.
I ride with my 13yrs old alot and I still have to remind him about gearing. When riding with him and his friends it is obvius nobody is teaching them about theyr 27 gear bikes.
08-04-09, 04:59 PM
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It could also be a case of monkey see, monkey do. Hey, if the other kids are doing it, why be different and pedal?
08-04-09, 06:28 PM
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When I was a kid we didn't have gears or know anything about them. Never stopped us from riding up hills if we really wanted to. We just didn't want to. Didn't use gears until I was about 35.
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08-04-09, 06:46 PM
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I work with a lady who wears high-heels into the office and then kicks them off under her desk. She comes down the hall in her bare feet, all the time.
And shouldn't that irk everyone that she spends so much money on shoes and then doesn't walk around in them?
Who's with me? She's obviously a lazy bass-turd who should have learned to walk in those heels by now.
I think I'll yell at her tomorrow.
And shouldn't that irk everyone that she spends so much money on shoes and then doesn't walk around in them?
Who's with me? She's obviously a lazy bass-turd who should have learned to walk in those heels by now.
I think I'll yell at her tomorrow.
08-04-09, 06:54 PM
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No help from me. Shoes are bad for your feet. I never wear 'em unless I'm going into the glass-strewn metropolis. I wear loose sneakers for riding. I hope she steps on your toes in her high-heels - if you do yell at her.
08-04-09, 07:43 PM
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We had some really steep hills in my neighborhood growing up. With my friends and all riding our Huffy BMX bikes it was a feat of strength for our pre-pubescent legs to get up one of them pedalling the whole way. (I often resorted to the zig-zag technique.)
But it was worth it to be able to bomb back down them once you reached the top.
But it was worth it to be able to bomb back down them once you reached the top.
08-04-09, 09:00 PM
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I cannot help but comment on this. After work when I pick up my son from day care, I often see middle school to high school age kids always walking their bikes up a hill that I ride on almost daily. I have noticed these bike pushers are riding on multi speed bikes and this hill is not very challenging at all. What gives? I want to yell out the window at them to get on their bikes and just pedal.
08-04-09, 09:49 PM
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You must be either very old or your parents only bought you S/S coaster brake bikes as a kid, even my 1950 Indian Chief had a S/A 3 speed hub.
08-04-09, 10:26 PM
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BMX was the big thing when I was in grade school. Everybody had BMX, older bandana-seat Scramblers, or wedge-seat Huffys.
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08-04-09, 11:17 PM
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Bmx would make more sense if you could pedal while sitting down. Ive got access to a haro x-some thing, but the seat post isn't long anough to sit down. This factor makes the bmx bike offically not a device of transportation. And more of a tool of sport.
Ride it out to my mail box though.
Ride it out to my mail box though.
08-05-09, 07:42 AM
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08-05-09, 07:48 AM
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I have a different viewpoint... I work at a major university, and do bike patrol. I see a lot of the "kiddies" doing this very thing. Riding a nice, 21 or 24-speed MTB and getting off and pushing.
On occasion, I have asked why they just don't shift down to a lower gear, I get two replies:
1. "I don't know how."
or
2. "It shifted OK when I got it, but now it doesn't."
On occasion, I have asked why they just don't shift down to a lower gear, I get two replies:
1. "I don't know how."
or
2. "It shifted OK when I got it, but now it doesn't."
08-05-09, 09:21 AM
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Well maybe they walking to use their phones or to talk?
Now that being said, my daughters blast past a bunch of bike pushing boys going up the big hill to school. But my daughters are in fine shape.
Now that being said, my daughters blast past a bunch of bike pushing boys going up the big hill to school. But my daughters are in fine shape.
08-05-09, 11:21 AM
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Uptight much?
Sheesh. They're kids with bikes. Are you seriously going to hold them to the standard of being able to match YOU? As if they could give a flying crap about what you think or how you would drop them like a bad habit on that hill.
Guess what, I ride my bike with my daughters and some hills are just too much for them. We either take a different route or I pedal along side with my hand on their backs to help them up (yes, sometimes it takes me two trips). I suppose I should tell them to suck it up, wind it up to 400 watts and get to the top before I leave them there.
Sheesh. They're kids with bikes. Are you seriously going to hold them to the standard of being able to match YOU? As if they could give a flying crap about what you think or how you would drop them like a bad habit on that hill.
Guess what, I ride my bike with my daughters and some hills are just too much for them. We either take a different route or I pedal along side with my hand on their backs to help them up (yes, sometimes it takes me two trips). I suppose I should tell them to suck it up, wind it up to 400 watts and get to the top before I leave them there.
this.
you sound like the type that: if I was riding past you up a hill I could make it look like -you- were walking.
everyone is different.
08-05-09, 11:37 AM
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Nothing wrong with kvetching about a bunch of lazy kids. Kids are getting fatter and lazier in this country, so maybe the grownups do need to lean on them a little more!
08-05-09, 11:53 AM
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Most grownups aren't exactly the picture of health themselves these days. How can we expect kids to acquire a decent sense of responsibility for their own health when their most immediate examples (their parents) are so indifferent to it?
08-05-09, 12:14 PM
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It is possible the kids do not know how to use the gears, or the gears don't work. Someone had to explain to me that I had to pedal while shifting for it to work right on my cheapy bike.
It is possible one kid jumped off his/her bike and the rest followed.
If you measure by number of body lengths, that hill is much higher to a kid.
The weight of a kids bike is much larger pecentage wise compared to an adult on an adult bike.
It is possible one kid jumped off his/her bike and the rest followed.
If you measure by number of body lengths, that hill is much higher to a kid.
The weight of a kids bike is much larger pecentage wise compared to an adult on an adult bike.
08-05-09, 12:27 PM
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08-05-09, 12:36 PM
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I figured out my Dad's Motobecane (a real one) as well as my brother's Raleigh 10 speeds without any trouble when I was probably 12. The bikes were also way too big for me too.
08-05-09, 03:56 PM
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less bodyweight sure but less muscle too and same weight or likely heavier bike than you... Bike weight is a much larger percentage of total weight and therefore is harder.
08-07-15, 10:47 AM
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like everyone else here, i'm gonna say the same thing. they are kids. let them be!
if you see an adult doing that for fitness reasons, are you going to needle them about it? i sure hope not. it's hard enough trying to get fit, and to sustain fly-by insults from a random person is just awful. if it affects them, it will make them angry at you (someone who has no business sticking their nose where it doesn't belong) or put them off working out altogether - which is way worse.
why is it any different for kids? it's the same for kids. kids don't need some adult who knows nothing about them, nor their lives, giving them unwarranted and uncalled for opinions on what they should be doing.
just think for a minute and be human about your response. publicly disrespecting random people is not ok, whether they are kids or adults.
if you see an adult doing that for fitness reasons, are you going to needle them about it? i sure hope not. it's hard enough trying to get fit, and to sustain fly-by insults from a random person is just awful. if it affects them, it will make them angry at you (someone who has no business sticking their nose where it doesn't belong) or put them off working out altogether - which is way worse.
why is it any different for kids? it's the same for kids. kids don't need some adult who knows nothing about them, nor their lives, giving them unwarranted and uncalled for opinions on what they should be doing.
just think for a minute and be human about your response. publicly disrespecting random people is not ok, whether they are kids or adults.
08-07-15, 11:18 AM
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Maybe they don't even want to cycle to and from school. Maybe they got a bike one day and decided they didn't care for cycling the next and they're just going through the motions for a bit before leaving it in their garage for ten years. Maybe they're afraid they look uncool or something. Who knows, kids are mercurial.
I wouldn't get upset over it. That's just weird.
I wouldn't get upset over it. That's just weird.