Reply #171: Each of my kids learned to ride a bike a little later than...

[Zookeeper]

normal, because of our lack of sidewalks. I ended up taking each one to an empty parking lot to teach them and I'm still reluctant to let them ride outside of our little, low-traffic neighborhood.

We live near a private college and it's like these students all come from places where bike lanes are non-existant. They ALL use the bike lane as a right turn lane. I keep trying to explain to my kids that riding to McDonald's or the convenience store is just not worth the risk, considering the inexperienced and careless high school student drivers (we have a H.S. in our neighborhood), the clueless college student drivers, the harried just-got-off-work drivers and the delayed reflex elderly drivers.

I'm shopping for a bike rack so I can drive them to some nearby parks with bike trails.