Then it struck me: “Hang on a minute!” I thought, “This isn’t right. Isn’t this what I was doing for him, when was it, five minutes ago?”
Actually it was 31 years ago when Ed was learning to balance on his first two-wheeler. And now the roles are reversed (颠倒).
It was my sons’ idea that a bike would be good for me. I hadn’t cycled for 20 years, but they clearly remembered riding on the back of my old bike when they were little — a basket on the front, a child seat behind — off we’d pop to the shops, free and easy.
It was me who taught them to ride on — trikes (三轮车) first, then two wheelers with stabilizers (稳定轮), then that heart-stopping, proud moment when the stabilizers were off, I let go of the back of the seat and watched as my child shot off at speed and in complete confidence.
My husband David and I taught both Ed and his younger brother Charlie the Highway Rule and the same lessons about the rules of biking that we’d learned as children. Off the four of us would go, parents on the outside, children on the inside, carefully enjoying our family rides together, keeping strong and fit.
I was good at it, even cycling up hills. I had learned to ride a bike when I was tiny and used to ride around the streets around our house in Yorkshire with other children.
There were no helmets or knee and shoulder pads (垫) in those days, but then there was hardly any traffic. I did have a few trips to the hospital, however, once with a broken wrist. I also suffered some badly hurt hands and knees over the years before I learned the basic biking rule: never stop at speed using only the front brake (闸,刹车); it tends to throw you over the handlebars. My experience proved it.
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