Get on your bikes and ride!

Well I'm stunned!

Billy has had his own push bike for 8 months now.

Archie got a bike for Xmas.

Each of them had hardly looked at their bikes until about 6 days ago. And certainly neither of them could ride a bike sans stabilsers.

Then SUDDENLY, they got bitten by the bike bug last weekend. I'm stunned - it took each of them c. 2 days over the weekend to learn, and now they're buzzing round as though they've been cycling for years. Weird how it all clicks into place all of a sudden. I managed to capture Billy's first ride on his own -- and his smug face afterwards too!

So now we have to find a large expanse of flatness somewhere in HK for them to practice. And (stupid me) I promised them all sorts of $$ if they managed to ride a bike by 31st Jan.

I put a lot of this rapid learning down to an amazing learner bike that one of the kids in the block has. Called 'Puky' these training bikes don't have stabilisers or pedals -- kids self-propel them -- teaches balance and steering. (That's the bike Archie is on). Quite interesting to see how our children came on so quickly.

M