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Old February 17th 20, 12:11 AM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
jOHN b.
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Default School kids rarely ride bicycle anymore, why?

On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 14:57:04 -0800, Joerg
wrote:

On Friday afternoon during a road bike ride I came by two schools right
at the time when they were letting out. The bike lane was full of parked
cars hurumph ... grumble which is probably legal in California
although I'd never do that. All nice cars, bought by dad I guess. Then
there was a large file of cars with soccer moms and dads in there. A few
school buses here and there. Kids on bicycles? Zip, nada, not one. Same
at the next school and that even had two pick-up lanes.

Why?

When I grew up at least half the high school students living more than
walking distance away commuted by bicycle. So did I and my siblings. And
we didn't catch the sniffles the minute winter broke out, we just rode
through the snow.


When I went to school all the kids that lived within 1 mile of the
school walked - over 1 mile there was a school bus. No matter the
weather, Walk! I remember during the colder part of the year, and we
did have cold weather in up-state New Hampshire, the girls all wore
trousers under their skirts while walking back and forth to school and
removed them while in school. For some reason that was considered as
quite sexy :-)
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cheers,

John B.

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