Blog ≫ 2014 ≫ number one son rode his bike with no stabilisers today (actually Monday)
Hmm I lost this very important blog post when the server went down, this is the one post that fell into the gap between the old server and the new server. number one son rode his bike with no stabilisers for the first time! Enough talk, here's the video:
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We have been out occasionally on his bike with no stabilisers over the past six months, but he's not been that keen and we'd not made huge progress. We got as far as half a dozen "offs" a few weeks ago, that is six steps with me not holding on and him pedalling. So that is proper riding a bike, but only for six paces. Monday I had the day off to look after number one son and Number two son while Clare was at work, and number one son asked to go out on his bike. We had to wait until Clare got home, I don't know how it would have gone trying to watch Number two son at the same time, a disaster in the making... Anyway he was still keen later, so we went out. "Don't do more than two offs today" he said, but we did three, five, even up to nine a few times without him noticing. Then suddenly it was ten, twenty, fifty, he's cycling along with me counting up to a hundred and he's away! He can do it now, goodbye stabilisers.
The video above is after we'd gone one way down Alexandra Corniche and then I phoned Clare to say "look out of the window and get the camera". He was heading back uphill this time, so slightly less steady, but still great. I'm so proud of you number one son.
Number two son was also a super good boy all day both days when I was looking after them on my own. As well as taking every Monday off over the summer Clare is doing quite a lot of weekends so as to have the days home in the week. It's a busy summer for both of us.