On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:50:47 -0700, Too_Many_Tools
wrote:

Are they or are the skills needed just changing?

Your thoughts?

I suspect it is a bit of both.

TMT

I certainly wonder about little kids now. I think they are fat because
they don't ride bikes anymore. Soccer Mom drives them.

When I was a kid, if I wanted to go somewhere I got on my bicycle and
pedaled it to the destination. And ten to twenty mile trips and longer
occured often.

I rode my bike EVRYWHERE......and you know what? I loved it. I still
look back on some of those rides as total life joys.

In fact, getting someplace hardly even mattered. It was the fun of
riding there that was so great.

Had a Schwinn 5 speed Collegent. Built like a tank. I could ride it
down flights of concrete stairs with nary a ding in the rims. Dirt
trails through the woods? No problem. Jumps? Cat walking it all the
way around my elementary school? Up curbs? Down curbs? No problems.

I only hurt myself once on it when I crashed, fell face first into the
concrete, and ended up busting off one of my front teeth. No
problem......got back on and kept going.
Dave