My boys are certainly doing their part to stimulate the economy. The day after Alec bought his car Connor bought himself a bike. He has 3 bikes, 2 hand me downs and one 5 year old stunt bike that he has outgrown. He is very, very hard on his bikes. He rides into trees and rocks for fun. He has broken his chain twice this season, has 2 bikes out of commission with damaged rims and I have lost count of the number of tubes on the bikes and the unicycle. He sold his kayak a few weeks ago and decided to put the money towards a bike instead of a replacement kayak. He will save all winter towards a new kayak. So
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Connor's new bike
Connor doing stunts on his new, extremely expensive bike
Then the rear derailleur ricocheted off the spokes and the front derailleur and damaged all three parts. Did I mention this was an extremely expensive bike? Almost $900 on sale. It should have been SuperBike - able to leap tall buildings in a single bunny hop. It certainly should have stood up to a jump over a sewer. So back to the bike shop for repairs. Most of it was covered under warranty but Connor had to fork over another $20 bucks for parts.
Our nephew Dalton is up for a few days because we went canoeing/kayaking yesterday. Or more accurately we went portaging waterfalls with boats yesterday. This is Dalton's leg after riding Connor's bike this afternoon. Apparently he didn't realize Connor's pedals are studded. It took 13 stitches to close the wounds. And they (doctor and parents) are still going to let him go on a canoe camping trip next week with Kevin! Dalton was a real trouper. Not a whimper.
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Dalton is quite matter of fact and analytical about things, he said "I think this needs to be looked at".Yup!!!
I like Dalton's style.
Nice bike.
Jeez ... he's an animal on a the bicycle! I don't even know how to break a bike!
Dalton, leg is so bad it looks phony! It gave me chills.
That is creepy watching him on his bike. And Dalton, man that's gotta hurt.
Boys will be boys they manage to hurt themselves terribly, shake it off and on to the next adventure. We lost count as to how many bones Nick broke over his first 25 years, but so far never has he required stitches.
Catitlin and Connor have had lots of stitches but so far no one has broken anything. Connor is going snowboarding with Dalton's family this winter so I fully expect something broken.
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