New Bike tomorrow

[summerdays]

My son should be happy ... his Islabike will be delivered tomorrow!!! - I only placed the order yesterday!!! It was meant to arrive as a surprise next week whilst his siblings would be away on camp.

 

[iLB]

which model??

 

[exchangeandmart]

Hope your son likes it.

 

[summerdays]

Beinn 24 ... it arrived as we were about to eat lunch. Tried to persuade him it was a large solar panel - but he read the side and looked in a hole and saw the chain!!! I've assembled it but not tightened the pedals properly so he has yet to ride it.

He keeps says things like "why is it really light?"

 

[summerdays]

Ok - found pedal spanner and he has now ridden it:

 

[iLB]

yey

 

[Young Un]

He seems to have forgotten his helmet

 

[Arch]

Excellent! May he have many happy hours on it.

I now have a date set in October to deliver Oli's Rothan, seems ages away!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

That's a smart bike!!

 

[HLaB]

Looks good summer

 

[Davidc]

Got a new (extra) one myself recently and I'm told I've been behaving like a 5 year old ever since.

Hope your son enjoys his as much - good habit to get into for a fit & healthy future.

 

[Aperitif]

Lovely! That 'hunched shoulders of pleasure' in the photo. May he be safe and happy.

 

[summerdays]

Having wasted my 3000th post on the BSO thread I decided to make 3001st count so a report on his first 3 rides over the weekend.

Sat morning very early I was caught trying to sneak out of the house to go and see the Balloons "can I come too?" - ok, so I decided to not go the full way but just to cycle to the Downs, so we cycled to the Viewing Point:

From the viewing point its clear the balloons are going south so we do too.

View from just above the Clifton Suspension Bridge:

Later in the afternoon we cycle back to the Downs to see the Red Arrows

On the way back we go across the grass given the parked cars on the road and the appalling driving (well mostly stationary jams and shouting matches as to who should back up).

We discovered they had cut the long grass on the downs and baled it up.

Next morning a repeat out to the Viewing Point and then to the Bridge

Loads of Balloons but I liked this one close to the moon.

And home across the grass again - just because he could practise his red arrow circles!!!

So he likes his new bike!! and has done about 26 miles on it so far.

PS. Can anyone tell me why kids have to stand on their bikes!!!!

 

[jay clock]

Fantastic. My stepson has the same one and his sister has the next size down. Really excellent bikes.

 

[wafflycat]

Utterly brilliant!!