Dad getting family to ride
02-19-23, 12:43 PM
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Dad getting family to ride
Hello! I'm trying to get back into riding and want the family to ride as well. Hope to find useful information here and be part of the community. Thanks for having me!
02-20-23, 09:15 AM
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good luck! if I had 1 day left to live & I could do anything, it would be go for a bike ride w/ my Wife & kids
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02-20-23, 05:04 PM
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Forget about family, get a decent quality headphones and a favorite podcast and never look back.
02-21-23, 12:33 AM
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02-21-23, 12:35 AM
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02-21-23, 04:46 AM
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my kids always seemed to need the next size up with bikes, so I mostly bought used over the years & it was great when they reached adult bike size & I could stop buying bikes. but then that's when cars started showing up hahaha
02-21-23, 08:54 AM
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I keep watching this post waiting for a success story. I have a wife and 6 and 10 year old; so far with no luck getting them on rides. I just go by myself and it is my alone time as it was before marriage and kids. I really wish I could share that with the family as riding has been a real blessing on many levels in my life but so far no luck.
02-21-23, 09:30 AM
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^^ similar to robo... I'm 58 with a wife and 5 and 7 year olds, none of whom have any interest in cycling. My kids don't have bikes and don't want them. My 5 year old son says, "maybe when I'm ten". haha
02-23-23, 07:35 PM
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I started my son on a wee-ride co-pilot; when he got frustrated with that (anything over 12mph he was just spinning instead of helping to pedal) I go a tandem.
I joined a tandem group on Facebook and put out my request with this nice picture of my boys and set up at the time.
I soon had a couple of people trying to sell me their old tandems; I found a guy who really wanted my family to have his tandem; so I bought it. I got a child stoker kit added to it and last summer my boys and I really enjoyed our bike!
Summer 2023 my youngest will be old enough to go some miles in the trailer. He's a little too young to be in it much this summer.
So this summer both pictures get combined! Tandem, trail-a-bike, trailer set up will be in full swing! 7 year old on tandem, 4 year old on trail-a bike, and two year old in trailer!
I joined a tandem group on Facebook and put out my request with this nice picture of my boys and set up at the time.
I soon had a couple of people trying to sell me their old tandems; I found a guy who really wanted my family to have his tandem; so I bought it. I got a child stoker kit added to it and last summer my boys and I really enjoyed our bike!
Summer 2023 my youngest will be old enough to go some miles in the trailer. He's a little too young to be in it much this summer.
So this summer both pictures get combined! Tandem, trail-a-bike, trailer set up will be in full swing! 7 year old on tandem, 4 year old on trail-a bike, and two year old in trailer!
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If I'm a lucky man, maybe soon I can captain these children's children.
If I'm a lucky man, maybe soon I can captain these children's children.
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I keep watching this post waiting for a success story. I have a wife and 6 and 10 year old; so far with no luck getting them on rides. I just go by myself and it is my alone time as it was before marriage and kids. I really wish I could share that with the family as riding has been a real blessing on many levels in my life but so far no luck.
03-02-23, 04:37 PM
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I keep watching this post waiting for a success story. I have a wife and 6 and 10 year old; so far with no luck getting them on rides. I just go by myself and it is my alone time as it was before marriage and kids. I really wish I could share that with the family as riding has been a real blessing on many levels in my life but so far no luck.
I basically stepped away from bike riding for around 20 years - other than some short off-road rides in the woods behind our house
however - my wife did get out on her bike with the kids - at times with her father also ... they hit some of the rail-trails and nearby park MUP ... most times while I was working on / around the house
later my oldest kid did some rides with friends - including a two day ride on a rail trail (part of the GAP) with a friend and his father
later my youngest kid would do some off road rides with friends - and some BMX riding including indoor faculty and a local park pump track
but I never did ride with them
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