Archive for December, 2011
I had nothing to do with this
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The mothership
When we showed up at the farmer’s market with bikes in the bike, a friend said the bakfiets was like a mothership now. If it were a star destroyer, that would make our kids storm troopers, which sounds about right. They have poor aim and fire indiscriminately. The balance bikes at the market were the […]
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Cycling in heels
The kids have been riding balance bikes since May. Took them a few months to want to try them and some time after that to get past frustration, but now they tear around the house with their feet in the air. G’s been walking in her mother’s heels. A few days later she got on […]
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Tags: balance bikes, Dutch, heels, Kids, shoes
The new LBS
Oh. Hello. I nearly forgot this was here. Today I’d finally had enough of the slow leak. I had a flat twice a day. I would usually have patched it myself but time for that sort of thing is in short supply with 3-year-olds in the house. So I took my Raleigh to the new […]
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Tags: bicycle, bike, lbs, Raleigh, repairs
Bikes Can Work 