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Putting kids on a bike with stabilisers is terrible cruel. They don't
learn the one thing that is important (balance), and worse, it
doesn't countersteer - they learn to steer left to go left, etc. Then
parents take the stabilisers off and wonder why their kids struggle.

 

Oi! I was born in Birmingham.

But my parents had the good sense to leave before I had time to pick up
the accent. For which I'm profoundly grateful.

Phil

 

Congrats to all

 

I learnt to ride so long ago I can't remember stabilisers, but it
appears from photographs that I had them.

Can't even remember when I got my first bike, although I do remember
racing BMX on a Raleigh Nigh Burner aged 6.

 

Did it end well?

 

I remember our daughter, when Number One Son had outgrown his first
bike, and she was just ready for her first.

So we went off to the bicycle shop, and he picked out his shiny new
steed, and she made a bee-line for some confection that had a dolly
carrier on the back. That was the clincher. The pillion seat for a doll.

And I said to The Doctor: "I suppose Helen can have Jamie's old bike..."
and she overheard, and she turned her head back and forth between
Jamie's old bike and the one wiv dolly carrier and I have *never* seen a
lower lip wobble like it.

So she got what she wanted, and Jamie's old one went into the classies
(pre-eBay days).

 

Was it pink?
Serious question.

 

Good question. Green, actually.

 

Laura had one with a dolly carrier. It was very, very, very pink.

 

Well done, all three of you.

 

Try saying "Droitwich" without a Brummie accent.

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I remember the first 2 wheeled push bike I got the boy-chic when he was 4.
The missus wanted to attach the stabilisers but I said no and demonstrated
why. I held the boy by the shoulder (well neck really, but shoulder sounds
less threatening) and told him to pedal. I jogged alongside until he wasn't
wobbling too badly, then let go. He carried on pedalling without a care in
the world. He didn't fall off and I almost had to drag him off the bike when
it was time to **** off. It's what my dad did when I was a sprog and if it
worked for me, I saw no reason why it wouldn't work for my son.

That actually took longer to type than it did to do and for him to be
confident enough to not want any more help from me. He rode all over the
school sports yard (all weather pitch, so it's good job he didn't fall off)
for fucking AGES that day before he let me get him back home.

We moved house that year and the next door neighbour had a 13 year old kid
still using stabilisers on his bike. My boy thought it was a bit strange and
eventually told his new pal to get the things off and ride properly.

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**** off!. Nothing wrong with a firm hand around a childs neck and they're
free.

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That'd make my grandaughter have a seriously wobbly bottom lip. Everything
has to be that god awful pink.


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I think all little girls go through a Pink Phase.

(BGN's still in it, of course)

 

She's grown up a bit since then. There was /nothing/ wobbly about
the lip she was giving you the other night.

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Well she's only 4 so I let her have a little leeway, but a bike, a pram, a
faux mobile phone, **** knows how many pink Barbie things and pink clothes
are beginning to make me feel sick.

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some don't.

he's making up for me obviously.
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Pink being a bit too close to being red, eh?

 

I'll have you know I own a red T-shirt. only because they don't do
them in any other colour, Elmo being of the off pink persuasion.
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