Get on Your Bikes and Ride

Hong Kong tends to be either steep hills with dense greenery or heavily populated urban areas. This means that historically there have not been a lot of opportunities to wile away your youth riding your Schwinn Stingray around the neighborhood cul de sac.

So despite the fact that the much newer New Territories where we live north of the city center has been built with extensive bike trails, many people can not ride a bike or they can only do so with –how shall we say it- with a little tandem assistance.
In Hong Kong, it is not uncommon to see teens –or even adults- riding a bike with training wheels.

But hey, there ain’t no shame in that. You gotta do what you gotta do.

What would be a shame would be to miss out on the joys of biking with your friends simply because your ego got in the way.

Hey all you Four Wheelers out there, you just keep right on peddling!

And hold your heads high when you do.

-Jack

Okay, I tried to be really gracious with this blog entry, but I have to be honest, it still makes me giggle a little on the inside every time I see a big person with training wheels.