Originally Posted by chipcom
Maybe it's this area, but I have noticed a huge drop in the number of kids riding at all. Their parents either don't get them bikes at all, or they don't let them ride. Our youngest often invites his friends to go riding with us...most of the time I have to let them ride one of our old bikes because they don't have one of their own. We used to see literally hundreds of kids riding in the park, now it's rare to see more than a handful. Yes, kids still ride, but dammit, from my view the numbers ain't what they used to be.
Wow, parents not even buying 'em bikes... now that is a crying shame. I know that as my son grew, we recycled his smaller bikes to neighbor kids that did not have a bike... just seemed like the right thing to do.
I will fully admit that kids are not riding to school as they once did... at least in my lifetime.