Cycling to school

My 7 year old lad has caught the bug.

Yesterday and today constituted his first 'commute to school by bike' days and he's hooked. Its not much more than half a mile but it includes a nice run through the park and relatively little on-road riding. Its quite a hill though. I was rather impressed on the way home that he managed to ride most of the way up through Meersbrook Park on his rusty little singlespeed bike. He only got off and walked on the steeper bits.

Sadly he is in a tiny minority at his school. Only 1 or 2 other bikes ever get locked to the railings there and although a lot DO walk; far, far more are driven the short distance from their home to the gates which is very disappointing.