J's first ever trail ride!
Which quickly became his first ever trailside crash...
followed by his first ever trailside recovery.
He really tore it up. Especially in light of keeping up on dinky 12" wheels.
There were moments of panic, in which he forgot the coaster brake and Flintstoned to a stop. There were moments when he used his feet as outriggers and pogoed back and forth down some inclines.
We took the mildest singletracks available. Some fireroads. A very small amount of pave. Not one complaint.
Ostensibly, the plan was to head over to the old Boy Scout Camp and cut the hands off the used-to-be clown-headed swing sets. The heads are long gone. There's one frame/body still standing, but people beat us to it. Those hands are gone now, too. There is one body in the weeds, which location I thought I remembered but could not find. I had stashed the body in the dark of night maybe 4 years ago, after I'd hack sawed the head off. I kept telling myself I'd get around to hauling the body out one of these days. Dang. Who doesn't want a white gloved tube of galvanized steel with chains attached?
Anyhow, we cooked Brown Lunch and fooled around.
J got tired on the way back. We strapped the pink bike (which had been N's 1st bike and then D's, and J's in turn) onto the tail of the Big Dummy and J climbed on board.
We stopped briefly at the stairs, where J decided he wanted to ride the rest of the way himself.
Then we collected some trailside logs for firewood and called it a day.
We should all be so stoked. ~6 miles.
