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Adults can and should milk biking to get some exercise. Older people may need to ride the giant tricycle with a basket on the front. It was blue with a bell attached to the handlebars and when you worked the tiny tab backwards and forwards with your thumb, you would hear a tinny ring.

All of the youngsters in my neighborhood had bikes; naturally they were 2 speed bikes, stop and go, not like the many different bikes that are available now. I do not remember anybody being obese back then.

We rode bikes instead of watching some mad or violent program on television. In fact, there wasn’t any Television, no McDonald’s, no PCs, no Gameboys ; the sole video games we had were photographs in our heads. In the sunlight hours we did not have many inactive games. We ran around in the yards playing hypothetical games. At night all the family would sit round the dinner table eating and chatting. The meal usually consisted of a beef, 2 or 3 veggies, and pudding with tea or milk to drink.

Nobody chose bottled water, oh yep, there wasn’t any bottled water. The sole time we had burgers was on Sat. nights, no fries. In the summer we cooked out of doors on a homemade barbecue pit made out of stone. There were no charcoal, electrical, or gas griddles; we used wood in the pit. Some of the area youngsters were always invited to eat dinner with us on Sat. night. We’d eat on a wooden picnic table in the yard. After dinner we might play basketball or horseshoes, or some other game. Perhaps if we had kept on doing those types of things, we wouldn’t have so many lazy and overweight folks now. Get some “kids” of every age together and go for a bike ride at least once each week.

When you’re riding, perhaps on the way you can ride on a yard barbecue pit where you can fix some burgers the old fashion way and pitch some horseshoes after dinner.

written by Udo \\ tags: Bicycling, Bicycling Lane