Whilst cycling down to Goat this evening I encountered a little girl riding her bike just past Dights Falls. I could see she was having a bit of strife with the training wheels while decending a rise on the bikepath. I slowed down and gave a gentle ring of the bell to let her know I was behind her. She picked up her bike, and moved to the riverbank side.
I said "Thank you very much"
She stood up proudly next to her lovely bike and said to me,
"You're most welcome"
I don't think she was more than 5 or 6 years old.
Anyway after I passed her, I stood up on the pedals and heroically caned off (ie: wildly posing) down towards the Collingwood Childrens Farm.
We had a joke about it tonight at Goat. Envisage the scenario, we're at a future World Track comp/Commonwealth/Olympic Games and this (now) grown cyclist spies me in cheap seats and comes over and thanks/blames me. "It's all you're fault, all those early starts ... I would of bought a car by now if it wasn't for you .." 😄 😄 😄 😄
I like it when I can see them saying, "Mummy, mummy, look, it's a GIRL, she's on a BIKE!"
I smile and wave. Makes it harder for Mum to run over me without feeling bad, if her kid likes me.
Tam
I get that from little girls on their bikes. You can tell its a real buzz for them to see a "real" "grown up" (roflmao yeah yeah shuddap in the back!!) female cyclist out riding. I always give them a smile, wave and a hello.
It's a pity we seem to lose them after they turn 10 or so.... 🙁
smiling/poking tongue out at kids sitting in cages is always bit of fun. unless they have a supersoaker 😄
One of my dreams is to get a tandem Greenspeed recumbent and put my son in a kid seat at the back, i.e. seated fairly high, with helmet, flying goggles, white silk scarf and a mounted supersoaker so he can act as my rear gunner 🙂 I have a feeling that by the time the funds come round, he'll be to big to fit in a kid's seat 🙁
I get that from little girls on their bikes. You can tell its a real buzz for them to see a "real" "grown up" (roflmao yeah yeah shuddap in the back!!) female cyclist out riding. I always give them a smile, wave and a hello.
Grown up female? I've been trying to dodge that tag for almost twenty years. Ploy seems to be working so far 😄
warrwych said:
It's a pity we seem to lose them after they turn 10 or so.... 🙁
Good news, while riding over to Brunswick (about school knock off time) I noticed plenty of kids of all ages riding home. To quote a ancient haircare ad, it won't happen overnight, but it will happen. 🙂
smiling/poking tongue out at kids sitting in cages is always bit of fun. unless they have a supersoaker 😄
One of my dreams is to get a tandem Greenspeed recumbent and put my son in a kid seat at the back, i.e. seated fairly high, with helmet, flying goggles, white silk scarf and a mounted supersoaker so he can act as my rear gunner 🙂 I have a feeling that by the time the funds come round, he'll be to big to fit in a kid's seat 🙁
Graeme
I like that idea. Pity my kids are all now bigger than me.
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Grown up female? I've been trying to dodge that tag for almost twenty years. Ploy seems to be working so far 😄
Same, but somehow I think my exterior person is now advancing more rapidly than my interior person, and for some weird reason, cos I look "grown up", people get offended when I demonstrate that I am not :p
cfsmtb said:
Good news, while riding over to Brunswick (about school knock off time) I noticed plenty of kids of all ages riding home. To quote a ancient haircare ad, it won't happen overnight, but it will happen. 🙂
WOOHOO!!!!!! Let's hope that when they get to 17 or so, there isn't enough fuel generally available for them to be borrowing the car keys 😄
I get that from little girls on their bikes. You can tell its a real buzz for them to see a "real" "grown up" (roflmao yeah yeah shuddap in the back!!) female cyclist out riding. I always give them a smile, wave and a hello.
Grown up female? I've been trying to dodge that tag for almost twenty years. Ploy seems to be working so far 😄
I've never liked Billy Connolloy's sense of humour, but somehow his comment recently on "growing old is okay, but growing up is rubbish" or something along those lines makes a lot of sense.
