Short and sweet

[cfsmtb]

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 .."

 

[gplama]

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.

Did you 'throw' over the line??... Sounds like a good win to me, great work!

 

[Resound]

I love those little encounters. It's one of the little benefits of cycling over driving that you don't usually think about.

 

[flyingdutch]

I love those little encounters. It's one of the little benefits of cycling over driving that you don't usually think about.

smiling/poking tongue out at kids sitting in cages is always bit of fun.
unless they have a supersoaker

 

[Resound]

smiling/poking tongue out at kids sitting in cages is always bit of fun.
unless they have a supersoaker

And in hot weather, even that can be fun. Keeping up with busses/trams and waving to/smiling at kids is always good value too.

"Mum! Mum! Look at the maaan!"

 

[Tamyka Bell]

Resound wrote:
>
> flyingdutch Wrote:
> > smiling/poking tongue out at kids sitting in cages is always bit of
> > fun.
> > unless they have a supersoaker
>
> And in hot weather, even that can be fun. Keeping up with busses/trams
> and waving to/smiling at kids is always good value too.
>
> "Mum! Mum! Look at the maaan!"

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

 

[warrwych]

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....

 

[Graeme Dods]

On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 09:11:01 +1100, flyingdutch wrote:

> 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

 

[cfsmtb]

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

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.

 

[Ted Linnell]

Graeme Dods <[email protected]> wrote:

>On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 09:11:01 +1100, flyingdutch wrote:
>
>> 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.

Ted.
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[Graeme Dods]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 16:54:27 +1000, Ted Linnell wrote:

> I like that idea.
> Pity my kids are all now bigger than me.

So you get *them* to pull *you* around. Okay, so you may need to beef up
the kid's seat and widen it a little, but it would be worth it!

Graeme

 

[warrwych]

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

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

 

[Terry Collins]

cfsmtb wrote:
> warrwych Wrote:
>
>>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.