My son is turning 9 this year and we're getting him a new bike. He doesn't lock up his bike right now but I'm curious how other decide when it's time to start teaching that.
when do you teach your kids to start locking up their bikes?
- Thread starter mr_dove
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Dad?
um earlier then now, tell him he needs to start locking it and if he doesn't, do what stevew said.
never.Dad?
He can't! He's IMPOTENT!Dad?
Immediately after you give him the bike.
Take him out some night and comb the nieghborhood until you find an open Garage with a bike in it. Then illustrate to him how easy it is to have your bike stolen. After you get the bike home make him ride it around... I need to remember these little nuggets of wisdom my Dad imparted to us on Fathers day.
Exactly.
When I worked at a bike shop next to the French Quarter, tourists had just rented bikes and left them sitting in front of the shop unlocked.
I moved them into the alley and you can imagine the panic when when they came back out and no more bicycles.
Especially in New Orleans, they assumed they were stolen. And really, if I hadn't walked up, it probably would have been.
My neighbor across the street had his 10 year old boy start putting his bike behind the gate in the back yard. The boy did as he was told and the bike was stolen. So Dad had to buy the boy a new bike and now they lock it to the front porch column.
When I got her 20", I got the tumbler chain POS lock and she started locking it up at home. I think she was 8.
for the most part...my brothers and i never left our bikes out.
if we had grown up in the neighborhood where we had lived in philly....that's the only place we would have had to worry about sh!t getting stolen.
texas
louisiana
virginia
no worries..
tennessee...in knoxville...our bikes were in the kitchen with the foosball table...
colorado...my younger brother and i left them on the balcony where we lived in aurora with no problems.
if we had grown up in the neighborhood where we had lived in philly....that's the only place we would have had to worry about sh!t getting stolen.
texas
louisiana
virginia
no worries..
tennessee...in knoxville...our bikes were in the kitchen with the foosball table...
colorado...my younger brother and i left them on the balcony where we lived in aurora with no problems.
Where my cousin lives in Ontario they just leave them laying in the yard. They don't even have a lock on the back door or Garage.