fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Oh no ! Like father like son....
As some of you know, I bought my son a new 'bigger' bike with gears a few weeks back - well it's had loads of use, and although it has bottle bosses, you can't fit a cage and bottle in the space between the tube set.
So off to decathlon we go - me looking at gloves, and also hoping to look for a 'child' size bottle cage.
Found a few pairs of gloves fopr me - reduced - end of season, bargan. Son then starts looking at the bottles/cages and we can't find a small bottle, although he spys a bottle cage that uses a side entry, rather than from the top...."Oh this will do Dad" - anyway with a little fettling (bending) it fits OK and will take one of his narrow bottles.
Anyway, we're browsing the bike stuff as you do, and my son says he wants new wheels (erm the bikes new) - "I would like some wheels where the spokes cut through the air"....oh no... Dad's road bikes have bladed spokes.... managed to diffuse the situation saying that Mountain Bikes don't normally come with bladed spokes as they aren't strong enough - well he's 7 and doesn't know that I'm talking rubbish...... quick escape before he sees anything else.....
Well that's the start of a long road....
As some of you know, I bought my son a new 'bigger' bike with gears a few weeks back - well it's had loads of use, and although it has bottle bosses, you can't fit a cage and bottle in the space between the tube set.
So off to decathlon we go - me looking at gloves, and also hoping to look for a 'child' size bottle cage.
Found a few pairs of gloves fopr me - reduced - end of season, bargan. Son then starts looking at the bottles/cages and we can't find a small bottle, although he spys a bottle cage that uses a side entry, rather than from the top...."Oh this will do Dad" - anyway with a little fettling (bending) it fits OK and will take one of his narrow bottles.
Anyway, we're browsing the bike stuff as you do, and my son says he wants new wheels (erm the bikes new) - "I would like some wheels where the spokes cut through the air"....oh no... Dad's road bikes have bladed spokes.... managed to diffuse the situation saying that Mountain Bikes don't normally come with bladed spokes as they aren't strong enough - well he's 7 and doesn't know that I'm talking rubbish...... quick escape before he sees anything else.....
Well that's the start of a long road....