Man that title made me feel old…Back in the day, riding bikes was the coolest thing you can do. Well at least until you got your driver’s license. But for the most part almost everyone I knew growing up rode bikes everywhere. My friend and I would ride our bikes from one town to another just to go visit people or to go fishing. We’d use our bikes to go to the store to buy chips, soda and candies. We used bikes to go anywhere we wanted.
Now I’m starting to notice less and less kids on bikes. At my kid’s school, the bike racks can host up to 2 dozen bikes, but on any given school day, we’d only see about 3-4 and 2 of them are my kid’s bikes.
Perhaps its all the rage to hop in the family Hummer or SUV and drive down the street, or maybe kids are lazier than ever? I even had this theory, could it be that the same people that rode their bikes when they were kids grew up hating having to ride bikes everywhere, and now they would just rather get into their car just so they don’t have to put much effort in. Then they are in return instilling that same mentality into their kids…
What ever it is, kids commuting is a past time that is not as cool as it used to be. Dang man, just watch that movie RAD Racer…those guys rode bikes everywhere and they were cool.
Anyhow, rant over.
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