April Showers Bring May Flowers

That's right! But what do May showers bring? Other than no riding? Sheesh, too deep for me. Saturday is "Ride the Rock", Will County (Illinois) BIG 16 mile ride. That's right! 16 miles, with 4 rest stops (5 if you count the finish), with food at each rest stop. Well, it is a family ride, after all, not aimed at 'experienced' riders. But we recumbent riders always manage to draw a group of kids over to look at our bikes and trikes. Kids seem to 'get' recumbents a lot more than adults. A kid will never ask "Is that comfortable?", they seem to know that if it was painful, we wouldn't be riding it in the first place. Instead, they say, "Cool bike!", and when asked if they would like to sit on it (a trike) they look to Mom or Dad for permission, and then get right on. Were their legs long enough to reach the pedals, I'd probably have to chase down a gew 'escapees". I've even had a few kids climb on the Scorp and make engine noises! Little do they know that the real engine noise sounds more like "Wheeze, wheeze, gasp, wheeze, snort, cough, wheeze, gasp" instead of the "Vroom Vroom" they like to make. If we could only capture the imagination and interest of more kids, the economy of scale of the recumbent business might allow more manufacturers (other than KMX, Catrike and WhizWheelz) to offer children's trikes. One thing is for sure, once kids become old enough, they don't want anything to do with df bikes, so, maybe if a bike was so cool and so much fun to ride (like a trike is) kids wouldn't give up riding and not pick it back up until 'exercise' becomes a necessity. Maybe if we do a better job of watering and fertilizing our flowers, they will grow longer.