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I want a BMC track machine.

Aesthetics are irrelevant. The down tube mount is easier to use.

You sound like a fucken robot.

Ha, yup.

backwards sloped steel frames are shit

well this opinion is more/less shit. lets face it

what? matte black?

okay, not the most complicated paintjob ever, but it does look rather nice on the samson.

Moving on, I like the effort the father did on this bike for his child;

So it match his bike as well;

nice effort.

Moving on, I like the effort the father did on this bike for his child;

So it match his bike as well;

nice effort.

yup, baby blue, apart from that everything else is different
hardly an effort.

that is nice ED's, nice to see a bit of dedication an love.

It was a bit of sarcasm about how fixed gear is over and geared vintage road bikes are the new fad.

This is a geared forum after all...

Oh wait...

its a big free for all isn't it, what's with the 'NEW/LATEST THING' stuff, fads are out of touch.

its more about the dedication an love. if there was more of this? wouldn't go amiss, right?

Why do people think it's appropriate to put just a back brake on kids' bikes? Surely it's better to teach the little buggers about endos and front end washouts while they're young and heal fast?

^guessing so the little one didn't endo out onto the floor.

"they're young and heal fast?"

right.

^guessing so the little one didn't endo out onto the floor.

But that's my point; you only do it once, and then you learn. Better to get that lesson over with while it's only your milk teeth you're knocking out. Eventually he's going to graduate to something with a front brake, so it's going to be a novelty later if you don't introduce it now, and older kids have stronger grip and a higher centre of gravity.

It's always nice to see young people taking an interest in danger. Now, son, a lot of people are going to be telling you you're crazy - and maybe they're right! But I want to tell you three things: bones heal, chicks dig scars, and the United States of America has the best doctor-to-daredevil ratio in the world!

mdcc, I'm guessing you're going to be a hard knock dad!

"they're young and heal fast?"

right.

He mean that we shouldn't mollycoddle children too much.

Cor some kids have it all, i didn't get a bike with working brakes till I was 6... Mine all came from the dump.

"mollycuddle" is important, if you wanted a healthy life for you're offspring.

mollycoddle

yes exactly.

or maybe crack the whip at them, make go around in the street, straight out into danger?
(not a good choice)

We were left to our own devices to learn from our mistakes on bikes, and none of us had any hospital in patient treatment for bike related injuries, or indeed any other of the various hazards we had to learn about. Children grow up much safer if they are carefully taught about risk and allowed to experience the minor hazards through experiment than if they are obsessively kept away from anything potentially harmful. Crashing into stuff at 5mph hurts enough to make you not want to do it again; if your first crash is at 60mph when you finally get out of the cotton wool your parents wrapped you in and into a car, you might not get a chance to learn from the experience.

master say;
best way to teach a child to make "correct choices" so not "bungle" up life.

kiddie porn! -pedal back striker

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mdcc, I'm guessing you're going to be a hard knock dad!

I'm not in the reproduction business, but I'm going to be hard knock uncle, and my brother is going to be a hard knock dad because he was brought up that way and it didn't do him any harm. He's not even going to get any argument from his wife, since she was brought up just the same way in the distant colonies.

@ mdcc I wasn't having a go, and actually a hard knock education is probably very sensible when it comes to teaching kids cycling nowadays. A few scrapes is better than what could be a lot worse. I'm sure your nephews, neices will be competent cyclists.

well this opinion is more/less shit. lets face it