Abby’s First Bike Ride
Posted by Jim at May 25th, 2005
Abby recently rode a bike for the very first time. This despite having owned a bike for 3 months. She got it in February, but as February in Michigan is not conducive to riding bikes, I only put it together on Saturday of last week.
My parents gave it to her, assuring me that the person at the counter said it took her only 15 minutes to assemble. I’m going to guess that she had assembled a bike before. I hadn’t.
Within the next three hours I had:
–figured out how to attach the handles to the frame
–taken the tires off at least 3 times
–adjusted the length of the brake line (which is why I had to take off the tires)
–come to hate and I mean hate the manual that came along with the the bike. The manual contained instructions for how to assemble different pieces of every bike Schwinn makes because they didn’t want to give step by step instructions for each individual bike. My personal suspicion is that the sort of person who knows enough about bikes to find that sort of manual useful probably doesn’t need a manual.
Anyway, crankiness aside, interested people (grandparents?) can find a short movie of Abby riding in the folder marked “public files.”