Julia Rides a Bike

Sara started cleaning out the back shed and threatened to give away some of the bikes. That was all it took for Julia to decide it was time for her to ride without training wheels.

With a new patented technique, Julia taught herself to ride on the grass in our back yard while using 10 psi (flat) tires.

After a few days of riding in the driveway, Julia and I headed out to the park - we started with riding around the basketball court, rode around the parking lot, picked up Abby, and then headed off for a lap around Clemyjontri Park. At one point we started catching up to a train, so we decided it was probably best to return to the parking lot.

All was great until Julia decided to do a loop to pick up some speed in order to climb a hill. Unfortunately the loop was on gravel, so the back tire slipped out and we gently scraped our elbow ... our first biking accident.