Originally Posted by
momoman
It bugs me to see children riding bikes that are way too big for them. I realize that bike may have been given to them .....I also have friends who bought their kids larger bikes so they could grow into it, and not have to get another larger bike later.
Both instances could have described our family when I was a kid. We inherited a ton of stuff from another family who had about eight kids, all of them older. Clothes, bikes, toys, etc. Everything. Sometimes the stuff was much too big so we'd just have to wait until we grew.
My first geared bike was a really cool purple 5-speed with a banana seat and a really high sissy bar, which that other family had outgrown. I had to wait on that one for a couple years before I was big enough to ride it!