yeah. Love the game, hell if I’d take 2 years off because of it again!Most of my 40-something friends play a lot of futsal, or futbol 5 as we call it down here, and as a result have the knees of 90-year-old marathonists. In fact, one of them has dropped off our next bike trip in two weeks because he wasted his right knee in a match last Sunday.
No joke. My daughter has a Strider and ate shit from a high side coasting down a hill because the only brake was to drag her shoes. I did end up finding a brake kit for it, but they’re more rare than they should be, and the design still looks a little questionable.Serious question regarding balance bikes....
Why do they not have a rear brake?
I have visions of kid careening down a driveway and out into the street.
Same with any even slightly hilly environment - seems like it would be either have the child get off and walk, or watch an impending edition of Friday Fails....
in germany football! is one of the most common sports that end in bad accidentsI take my boy to the BMX track all the time and his mum is always super nervous and over dresses him. She wants him to do a safer sport like soccer. First broken bone - soccer collision.
Nice control at the end thereHere's my boy at 35 months on his suspended strider.
Don't ask about his Mum's reactions to those actions...
This was a year ago, now he does the same on his 14" mtb.
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Yup, rode out of that tank-slapper like a Boss!Nice control at the end there
Cool.plenty do
few actually come with them. i remember looking at a dozen or so different brands, i don't recall any actually including them.plenty do
So $333 (or so...). Maybe that's part of the lizard ploy... "but honey, 300 bucks is CHEAP... look at this one over here... it's a THOUSAND dollars..."I snapped up a 16" Commencal with pedals & brakes for my 4yo for 1/3 of that price.
funny thing is, kids don't feel taint impact. My 8 y.o. still thinks nothing of it when he drop kicks me in the taint while I'm in bed...I'm not a breeder but those striders always make me cringe at the taint impact.
i was a bit surprised myself, i'm looking at the 20-24" wheel size, nothing decent i've found is under $350So $333 (or so...). Maybe that's part of the lizard ploy... "but honey, 300 bucks is CHEAP... look at this one over here... it's a THOUSAND dollars..."
Yeah, $300 + shipping is a lot more than the free strider he has outgrown, but I'm in the Bay Area so I'm sure I will be able to resell it for like $250 in a year when he outgrows it. Plus, it was actually available. My wife questioned why I didn't just get some $50 Novaro one she saw on Nextdoor, and I pointed out that it had a coaster brake, which is totally unrideable.So $333 (or so...). Maybe that's part of the lizard ploy... "but honey, 300 bucks is CHEAP... look at this one over here... it's a THOUSAND dollars..."
funny thing is, kids don't feel taint impact. My 8 y.o. still thinks nothing of it when he drop kicks me in the taint while I'm in bed...
Actually the coaster brake can be a detriment.Yeah, $300 + shipping is a lot more than the free strider he has outgrown, but I'm in the Bay Area so I'm sure I will be able to resell it for like $250 in a year when he outgrows it. Plus, it was actually available. My wife questioned why I didn't just get some $50 Novaro one she saw on Nextdoor, and I pointed out that it had a coaster brake, which is totally unrideable.
They all bounce the same though.not every kid comes out of the same mould.
No. Plenty do.few actually come with them. i remember looking at a dozen or so different brands, i don't recall any actually including them.
My youngest (now 11) was riding 3 wheel scooters before 12months and had a 10" wheel balance bike from 15months old, was riding it feet up by 18months and pedalling a proper bike before 2yrs old. She had no problem with operating the brake.Cool.
Granted, my exposure is minimal. Have only seen a half dozen in real lifes, and none had a brake. I can kinda see the point of the very young and potential problems of using a brake, but still think it should be an option - not every kid comes out of the same mould.
No. Plenty do.
look harder.
My youngest (now 11) was riding 3 wheel scooters before 12months and had a 10" wheel balance bike from 15months old, was riding it feet up by 18months and pedalling a proper bike before 2yrs old. She had no problem with operating the brake.
But no every kid is different. She was mad about anything with wheels and still rarely a day goes by when she's not riding a scooter/bike even though she travels to train/plays 4 days a week for football.
Yeah, I worded that weird. I know coasters make it harder to teach them, which is why I told her that coaster brakes are deal breakers.Actually the coaster brake can be a detriment.
I grew up on the damn things. When on a proper freewhub, It took me forever to be able to drop my heels / drop a crank arm back without thinking that I would hit the brakes.
First world problems / cool story bro.
Yeah. We use "about" too. Accents, slang and styles of conversation change every few square miles throughout the UK so we have many different ways of saying the same thing to interpret throughout our every day lives. Whereas the US still hasn't got the hang of one yet.Interesting U.K. vs. Murican english difference here I have never noticed before.
You said she was/is mad about anything with wheels, which I interpret to mean annoyed or whatever...whereas I think yanks would say mad for anything with wheels...
Dude. He's 3. He's not "35 months"...Here's my boy at 35 months
The biggest surprise I had when I worked in Birmingham is not being able to understand a single fucking thing anyone said, and people who live 20 miles apart not being able to understand each other, yet everyone could understand me just fine. I grew up with an English mother so it had nothing to do with the vocabulary but pronunciation.Yeah. We use "about" too. Accents, slang and styles of conversation change every few square miles throughout the UK so we have many different ways of saying the same thing to interpret throughout our every day lives. Whereas the US still hasn't got the hang of one yet.
No, he shouldn't have taken that left at Albequerque.Did he go the wrong way to Gloucestershire?
I hope you pretended you were Mexican, with a deep Sonoran drawl...I once had to share a shuttle van from Manhattan to JFK with an archetypical guy from Texas (cowboy hat, boots, you all know), an african american and an English couple. Traffic was terrible as usual at rush hour, and the Texan guy eventually got us all talking. I was sitting between him and the English couple, and what stroke me was how everyone ended up exaggerating their accents by the end of the trip. At one point I swear I couldn't understand a god damn word the English couple said. Their pronunciation got so closed it all sounded the same.
Back in 2003 I traveled to southern Italy to try to sell our heavily developed version of a ROCKS HACMP cluster. Our local contact had the nicest attention and organized me a tour so I could understand the idiosyncrasy of my target buyers. I stayed in 7-8 small towns and also at Taranto, the industrial port of the region, and at the capital city of Puglia, Bari. It was the time of strong vindication of the regional cultures, so I witnessed the bizarre situation of these two villages separated by a dry creek which couldn't talk to each other because of the impossibly different dialects they spoke.I hope you pretended you were Mexican, with a deep Sonoran drawl...
I am picturing you saying “Yo soy de Argentiiiiiiiiiina”, out italianing the Italians in Spanish....Back in 2003 I traveled to southern Italy to try to sell our heavily developed version of a ROCKS HACMP cluster. Our local contact had the nicest attention and organized me a tour so I could understand the idiosyncrasy of my target buyers. I stayed in 7-8 small towns and also at Taranto, the industrial port of the region, and at the capital city of Puglia, Bari. It was the time of strong vindication of the regional cultures, so I witnessed the bizarre situation of these two villages separated by a dry creek which couldn't talk to each other because of the impossibly different dialects they spoke.
I also learned that Barese, the dialect spoken at Bari, is almost 50% gestures, so most people there speak a pristine Italian over the phone, but instead heavily use their facial expressions and hands when chatting face to face.
Pssst... most of the time I only managed to say "Io sono argentino", only to be shut off by somebody screaming "Maradona!!! Maradona!!!" while hugging me too effusively.I am picturing you saying “Yo soy de Argentiiiiiiiiiina”, out italianing the Italians in Spanish....
Honestly, I always assume anybody speaking English while ending their sentences with "eh?" is a born and raised Canadian...She also told me that for American sounding accents she always guesses Canadian, because Americans generally didn't give a shit, but Canadians had a chip on their shoulder about everyone assuming they were American.
im surprised they didn’t ask “lo sai luisana-lopilato?”Pssst... most of the time I only managed to say "Io sono argentino", only to be shut off by somebody screaming "Maradona!!! Maradona!!!" while hugging me too effusively.
Also, everybody knows speaking Italian it's just a matter of attitude.
This happened back when that girl was just a random local starlette, long before she married Michael Bubble... The only other things Italians knew about Argentina were Juan Manuel Fangio and a couple more soccer players, such as Gabriel Batistutta or Claudio Caniggia.im surprised they didn’t ask “lo sai luisana-lopilato?”