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Might just by my comfortable middle class village (population 4500) but there's definitely more kids and families out on bikes this summer.
Started seeing them riding back from school, then ones and twos meeting up heading to one of the play areas, piles of bikes on front drives where kids at each other's houses, kind of like me and my mates 40+ years ago.
Even families with really little ones seem to be regularly heading to the playpark with balance bikes.
Older ones obviously disappearing into the woods vaping and drinking, given the litter they leave behind.
Great to see, but just wondering if this is the exception or a wider pattern?
No bikes, but two lads went past on what looked like matching escooters. Might be showing my age, but Shirley they were under 17, so couldn't have a driving licence and they might not have been Voi hire escooters so no insurance.
I'm pretty sure we have this exact same thread every year. We've had an excellent (in some ways) Spring and Summer, and now the kids are off school. Result - everyones dragged their bikes out.
Don't worry, they will all be rotting in the shed by the second week of September when it's 9degC and mizzling.
I'm pretty sure we have this exact same thread every year. We've had an excellent (in some ways) Spring and Summer, and now the kids are off school. Result - everyones dragged their bikes out.
Don't worry, they will all be rotting in the shed by the second week of September when it's 9degC and mizzling.
Not off school here yet, but maybe it is the weather, maybe just a change of demographic in the area perhaps
Road around the corner is closed for some works. Kids flying up and down (and across) it on bikes and scooters. Kids love bikes. They’re not so keen on riding bikes where people are driving. Which in most areas is everywhere, especially less well off areas.
Jumpers for goalposts, hmmm, isn’t it?… Marvellous.
Our council installed a really good pump track in the local playpark about a year or two ago. I walk past it everyday on my way home from work and it is absolutely rammed with kids on bikes and scooters. Some of the fearless skills on display from tiny kids makes me want to spit. The bouncy, bendy little gits.
The council is apparently installing a similar pump track in the next village because of the popularity. Brilliant to see all the kids having a whale of a time on them.
Not sure on that. Definitely more kids on bikes at dedicated locations, but less kids just out 'mucking about' on their bikes around town like I remember doing as a kid. Possibly because of the dedicated facilities? Hard to tell with my rose tinted specs.
Pump tracks have been popping up in towns/villages throughout my area for a few years now. Not sure all are as heavily used as the biggest in Grangemouth, but it's encouraging they're being built at all. Currently 6 pump tracks in a compact Council area (Denny, Westquarter and Avonbridge have Velosolutions, plus Larbert, Bo'ness and Grangemouth)
Definitely more kids out on bikes here (not a posh area), in the street and in the woods - sessioning the little jumps.
Good weather this year has helped, but I've been seeing an upward trend. I think MTB is getting slightly cooler, probably thanks to YTers like Matt Jones.
'Denny Pump Track' Ahem, I think you'll find that's Dunipace pump track, Ally. 😉
If we'd had these sort of facilities in the 70s and 80s, you'd have had to drag me away kicking and screaming. As it was, I was one of those kids just mucking around the village on my bike. I absolutely agree that these things are a brilliant way to get kids back on their bikes and away from screens.