Mom has been on a bicycling boost for a while now, prompted primarily as part of the process of having Corwin to ride his bike to school. I managed to stay out of it mostly, by dint of not having a helmet or working bicycle lock.
But yesterday, after Josh and Jake were over visiting1, I suggested that we pop out to get bike helmets and locks (because Charles needs one as well) after dumping returning our guests to their abode. Our primary mission was successful but while we were there, Charles spotted a bike buddy which Mom has been mentioning for the last few weeks. Alice is becoming tired and (she claims) too big for the normal trailer. Mom has seen a few of these around town and decided it was just the thing for Alice. What impressed me was Charles actually finding something that neither Mom nor I had noticed. This from a boy who can’t find his shoes if they are more than 10° away from directly in front of him. Dare I engage in some hope?
Anyway, today Mom hooked up the bike trailer and took Alice out for a short spin on our street, mainly to see if Alice would stay on. They were accompanied by Poly, who could not bear to not be a part of the experience. How she managed to not get bits of her nose sliced off by Mom’s spokes I fail to understand.
Overall, it seemed a success. It will be interesting, but probably more so from hearing about it afterwards that direct experience, the first time Mom and Alice take it out for a real trip. Best of all Unfortunately it’s very hard to move from one bike to another so it’ll be Mom who has the privilege of biking with her daughter.
1 Despite that, I still had to clean all the paintball markers by myself.
Wait..I provide hours of free labor and you don’t take advantage of it????
