I think you need to be a bike Nazi with your kids. Unless they are the only ones using the trail, being on the wrong side can lead to accidents. It's amazing how much damage a kid's bike can do at low speeds to a steel frame.
Veronica
I think you need to be a bike Nazi with your kids. Unless they are the only ones using the trail, being on the wrong side can lead to accidents. It's amazing how much damage a kid's bike can do at low speeds to a steel frame.
Veronica
I don't have a good solution either. Along with Muirenn's thread about the wet shorts in public ... DH got a road bike a couple of years ago and I really wanted to encourage him, but I wound up being really discouraging to him because it was in equal parts terrifying and infuriating. He rides like a 9-year-old boy, up and down on sidewalks, in and out of traffic, hugging the curb. It's bad enough when you're in a group of experienced cyclists with testosterone flowing (and that is pretty dang bad). When someone doesn't have the skills, and when the massive trove of traffic awareness they have from hundreds of thousands of miles on motos goes right out the window when they don't have a motor underneath them ... I just won't ride road with him. Tootling around on our commuters is as good as it gets with us, sadly.
Speed comes from what you put behind you. - Judi Ketteler
I would get off the trail and ride on the road. Trails here are not for road bikers. I might cut through a trail to avoid roadworks or something but I pretty much tootle and expect stupidity and children and horses and skateboarders. He is riding like that because he isn't taking it seriously which is fair enough on a trail. Does he have a road bike?
Trek Madone 4.7 WSD
Cannondale Quick4
1969 Schwinn Collegiate, original owner
Terry Classic
Richard Feynman: “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”
Thanks Goldfinch. You are right about where I live and the trails.
Note: My SO is 82 and rides an e-assist bike. They are not motorized and you have to pedal to make them go. He doesn't like to ride on roads because of his age. I am working on trail etiquette with him. It IS getting better.
kajero
2013 Trek FX 7.6 WSD
2012 Specialized Ruby WSD
2004 Schwinn (I think that is the year)
Train until you're faster than him and then drop him on a ride.![]()