Another fine idea

[OldAirmail]

I'd get real board with this, real fast. (That's a joke. You can laugh)



Shoretrax puts the mountain bike trail where you want it

A 33 foot (10 meter) board track is $4,000 (£2,450).


BTW - This IS NOT the $4,000 section of board track!



I don't even want to think about how much this would cost.



I hope that the boards are at least made with treated wood.


It must be scary, though. That first kid looks very nervous.

[Hagar]

It must be scary, though. That first kid looks very nervous.

Doesn't look very scary to me compared with what I see the kids doing every day at the local skateboard parks. Here's an example. http://vimeo.com/49619981

Unfortunately I can't take any photos myself for fear of being arrested as a pervert.

[OldAirmail]

It must be scary, though. That first kid looks very nervous.

Doesn't look very scary to me compared with what I see the kids doing every day at the local skateboard parks. Here's an example. http://vimeo.com/49619981

Unfortunately I can't take any photos myself for fear of being arrested as a pervert.

Not scary at all. I was just being facetious.

Actually, the kid looks like he's afraid that he'll fall over.



I can't see any good reason to spend $4,000 on a 10 meter piece of track.

To be of any interest to a kid, 5 up to 9 years old, you'd need at least 3 or 4 sections.


And if you put it up in your yard, you'd have a lawsuit from the parents of the first kid to fall & scrape his knees.

[Bass]

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Unfortunately I can't take any photos myself for fear of being arrested as a pervert.

You've just hit the spot of this crazy world today

[JP]

In the netherlands you had(or if you wanted, not sure) to take a cycling test in primary when you were young, you had to ride over a couple of bars around 20cm wide,some sloping up, some at an angle sideways, some even both and you also had to complete a slalom, that would barely cost anything yet still be more chanllenging but safer than this. O.o

[OldAirmail]

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Unfortunately I can't take any photos myself for fear of being arrested as a pervert.

You've just hit the spot of this crazy world today

When I was young, I remember watching 3 or 4 men who built, and flew, tube radio controlled airplanes.

They were nice enough to answer the questions of a 9 year old boy as best the could, and otherwise put up with me.



Fast forward to the mid '70s.

There were several very high profile child molestations at a couple of child daycare centers.



Around 1976 or '77, I watched a CBS investigative news story where they filmed a boy of about 8 or 9..

The boy was brought into a doctors exam room by a nurse, who then left.

A minute or two later a doctor stood in the doorway by himself, and asked the boy several questions for a few minutes.


Some time later, the boy was brought to a child welfare case worker.

She spent an hour asking the boy questions like "Did he touch you anywhere"?, You can tell me.", "Where did he touch you", etcetera. After a while the boy started responding affirmatively to her repeated questions.

By the time she was done, any court would have convicted the doctor.



Perhaps it's an over reaction, but to this day I treat young children like rabid dogs.

It's not that I don't like children, but I'll have nothing to do with them unless at least one of the parents is present.

When I walk the two Shih Tzus I won't let any young children pet the dogs, again, unless the parents are within eye sight.

[CrashII]

In the netherlands you had(or if you wanted, not sure) to take a cycling test in primary when you were young, you had to ride over a couple of bars around 20cm wide,some sloping up, some at an angle sideways, some even both and you also had to complete a slalom, that would barely cost anything yet still be more chanllenging but safer than this. O.o

[Cough]Bullshit[/Cough]

We do however teach our kids how to behave in traffic at the age of 4 when they start going to school. This does not include a cycling test but some general information about traffic and traffic rules. There is no riding over bars (we're a very flat country, no uphill kind of stuff here. In the civilised part that is...), no slalom (we can ride in a straight line, contrary to all those tourists).

Greetings from the Netherlands.