Front of the queue, when SL's arm's still fresh.
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SatNavSaysStraightOn
Changed hemispheres!
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flyingfish
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Sky ride have a Xmas afternoon ride advertised for harpenden, must be expecting some new bikes there
The Jogger
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SatNavSaysStraightOn
Changed hemispheres!
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my local college run one... I'm some what stupidly doing the intermediate level course having done the beginners a couple of years ago...
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I've said this before, but....
I got my first bike when I was about 11 (couldn't ride due to balance issues).
It was a Raleigh and I remember it was gold in colour
I was told I was not getting a bike, as it was too expensive, so I thought no more about it.
Until Christmas morning, when I opened the door to the front room to see that bike sitting beside the tree with a huge gold bow on it
Ah, happy days!
I vaguely remember my first bike, mid 1950's, I'd be 5 or 6, I remember it was pink and had solid tires, I remember my Dad taking me out, He told me where the brakes were and said He'd hold the back of the saddle and off I went, a short distance down the road I looked round, he was stood at the top of the road watching and I was on my own, and that was it I was cycling.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I saw one a few years back and it made me shudder ... He came shooting out of a side street on his new bike and straight across the main road without looking either way. Being Christmas morning there wasn't much traffic about, but it could so easily have ended in tragedy.
Speaking of seeing kids out on their bikes ... I saw 2 young girls riding road bikes up one of the big local hills this afternoon. They were probably about 9 years old. It struck me that these days ...
- I hardly ever see girls riding bikes
- When I see kids on bikes, the bikes are usually mountain bikes or BMX bikes
- I hardly ever see kids riding unaccompanied on A-roads
- I can't remember ever seeing children cycling that far up the hill (they were about 1.5 miles up it where I saw them and the average gradient to get there is about 6.5%)
(Even though I used to cycle miles around the lanes NW of Coventry when I was their age, the roads are a lot busier now so I can see why many parents are reluctant to give their children the freedom that I enjoyed.)
shouldbeinbed
Rollin' along
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- Manchester way
Was chatting in my LBS today & they were saying that sales of childrens bikes have fallen away hugely & making the point its all BMXs and supermarket MTBs nowadays that you see the kids on. Shame. It used to be great every few Christmases as I outgrew one and got another, not often new but never a worry. My first 'racer' was the best Christmas day ever.
Nigelnaturist
Guru
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- Pontefract
Only new bike I got at xmas was a chopper, would have been about 10, almost all my other bikes I have acquired bar the Viking which a cousin bought me in 2008, so most bikes have needed some sort of work on them to be road worthy.
Dragonwight
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Ah the good old days, less cars & people didn't seem so uptight, rules were there to be broken. I did see a kid on a black bmx about 3 weeks ago riding in the dark on an A road going the other way with no lights. Sad me stopped him and stuck my spare cheapo back light on his bag and told him to tell his parents to buy some for him. Anyway how long is this queue?
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
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- Land of confusion
Bought my lad a new bike for x mas, has a nerf gun on a rack and a holster for the darts at the front 
burndust
Parts unknown...baby
Good deed done
