This Is Hard To Believe......

[55ColumbiaBuilt]

My daughter is home from college for the summer. Last week a high school friend of hers, also home from college (a different college) was over to visit. I offered up my bike to him thinking that the two of them might like to go for a ride....my daughter owns a Cranbrook. He tells me: "I never learned how to ride a bike". Now get this. She now has friends from her out-of-state school at my home for a visit this weekend....and they tell me THE EXACT SAME THING! What kid doesn't learn how to ride a bike? I guess the internet, video games and the like will be the death of bicycles too!!!

 

[SCHWINNRAY69]

^^^^^^
I know, weird :|

 

[Tailwinds]

Ya, that's sad for so MANY reasons.

Being able to ride a bicycle is akin to being able to tie your shoes, dress yourself, make pbj, seriously.

It is on par with the most rudimentary of activities in human life.

 

[RadOne]

That is seriously strange, I would harshly judge them and their parents after a statement like that. Also, I would question my daughter for hanging out with such Riff-Raff! :lol:

 

[blackdiamond]

My daughter is home from college for the summer. Last week a high school friend of hers, also home from college (a different college) was over to visit. I offered up my bike to him thinking that the two of them might like to go for a ride....my daughter owns a Cranbrook. He tells me: "I never learned how to ride a bike". Now get this. She now has friends from her out-of-state school at my home for a visit this weekend....and they tell me THE EXACT SAME THING! What kid doesn't learn how to ride a bike? I guess the internet, video games and the like will be the death of bicycles too!!!

This is why america is not the top nation anymore, most people can't even ride a bicycle! :x

 

[blackdiamond]

this should be a question on College resumes! :?

 

[Baron von Zach]

Being able to ride a bicycle is akin to being able to tie your shoes, dress yourself, make pbj, seriously.

I can't help having the impression, that there are a lot of juveniles at college nowadays, who are unable to achieve either of these chores.
At the same time, they are full with themselves and totally convinced how supercool they are. In reality, they are so daft, they rattle when they walk.

 

[55ColumbiaBuilt]

I grew up in a trailer park because the old man was in the Navy...when you get transfered to a new location, take your home with you. Our neighborhood was filled with families living under the same circumstances. Our neighbors in Jacksonville were the same people in Norfolk, as well as in Maryland. A bicycle meant FREEDOM! As a boy, my bike was many things...a horse...a motorcycle...a spaceship...and it took me places!! Every kid had a bike, and you knew by sight the bikes as well as the friend that owned it. To think that someone made it all the way to college without riding with the Indians, the Hells Angels, or going to Saturn and still being within the sound of your mom's voice is, well, a pity to say the least.

 

[schwinnmesa]

I don't know how to use the toilet.

 

[Wildcat]

I think it's a safety issue. Our society has gotten soft on crime. In the cities and suburbs, most can't let their kids play out of their sight because of all the predators out there. That rules out riding a bike all day. That's why they can't ride a bike. I taught my grand daughter, but even in her neighborhood, idiots go flying by at 40mph.
We would ride until we were hungry as bears, then stop in at my house or a friend's, eat and drink, then away again for a few hours. We would get home at dusk, tired and dirty. Where I live now is military housing, so all the kids ride bikes. Everyone watches out for them and it's great. It should be the norm. I can ride the area at midnight, no problem with thugs, we just wave down the base cops and they take care of the invaders.
There's no excuse for living like this. We need to vote to get some backbone back in law enforcement and make neighborhoods safe again.

 

[Spokeshave]

Here's a different angle-
I purchased two Worksman service trikes for use in the facility that I manage. Most people were excited about the new "toys'.
Two of the employees wanted nothing to do with them. They didn't want to take them for a test spin around the parking lot like most of their peers.
One of the guys explained that he grew up in the high rise "projects" in the city. They couldn't afford, ride safely or store a bicycle. It was fairly common.They grew up playing basketball,handball etc. They never learned how to ride as it wasn't something important to them.
To his day neither of them will use the bikes. I guess they don't want to be embarrassed if they crash one .
Just something to think about.

 

[RiZZa]

That's pretty full on. In some countries riding a bike is a way of life if you need to get some where.

 

[scrumblero]

you don't even wanna know how many kids have never caught a fish... :roll:

 

[Carbon]

Jee whiz, almost hard to believe, my first ride sent me over the handle bars into a gum tree and the second ride landed me face down in the middle of the biggest mud puddle in the drive way, after that, I haven't been able to get enough of this bike ridin stuff!! Kids these days!! Can ya believe it!!

 

[Rat Rod]

I think it's a safety issue. Our society has gotten soft on crime. In the cities and suburbs, most can't let their kids play out of their sight because of all the predators out there. That rules out riding a bike all day. That's why they can't ride a bike. I taught my grand daughter, but even in her neighborhood, idiots go flying by at 40mph.
We would ride until we were hungry as bears, then stop in at my house or a friend's, eat and drink, then away again for a few hours. We would get home at dusk, tired and dirty. Where I live now is military housing, so all the kids ride bikes. Everyone watches out for them and it's great. It should be the norm. I can ride the area at midnight, no problem with thugs, we just wave down the base cops and they take care of the invaders.
There's no excuse for living like this. We need to vote to get some backbone back in law enforcement and make neighborhoods safe again.

Man you ain't kiddin'.

Just check your local area on this site... :shock:

http://www.familywatchdog.us

 

[Markm]

WOW!!!!!
Thats Scary.....

 

[Rat Rod]

This is why people are afraid to let their kids roam free in the neighborhoods like they used to.

I'm no expert, but I'm thinking Internet .... has something to do with it.

 

[Uncle Stretch]

I doubt that is the reason. I think that now if a kid is approached by a stranger it makes the national news. You would have never heard about it in the old days . When would you have ever known a child was grabbed before? Now you see the amber alerts as you drive down the freeway. There have always been child molesters , its just now you hear about it in the first several minutes . If they could just figure out how to fix a pothole in minutes.
I think kids don't like archaic machines like bicycles. Its demeaning . They would rather that you take them everywhere.....walking is out too. :roll:

 

[Rat Rod]

Easy access to child .... doesn't help the situation.

Once people get steeped in that stuff it's a downward spiral for sure.

Sure, they've always been around, but they haven't been able to feed their perversion like they can now.

 

[Spokeshave]

I doubt that is the reason. I think that now if a kid is approached by a stranger it makes the national news. You would have never heard about it in the old days . When would you have ever known a child was grabbed before? Now you see the amber alerts as you drive down the freeway. There have always been child molesters , its just now you hear about it in the first several minutes . If they could just figure out how to fix a pothole in minutes.
I think kids don't like archaic machines like bicycles. Its demeaning . They would rather that you take them everywhere.....walking is out too. :roll:

Kids would rather play "how to ride a bicycle" in 3D on their Xbox or Iphone. I agree that it's archaic to today's kids. Why ride a bike when mom can drive me to a play date?
Do you see all the TV ads about getting your child to play 60 minutes a day? We couldn't wait to go out and play. How many kids are couch potatos in front of the tube on a nice spring day playing some mindless video game?