The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
Thanks Jeff!Awesome Mykel! Nice photos too!
Jeff
Thank you, thank you very muuch.Congrats on the climb.
And continued thanks for great pictures.
He's an expert faller - maybe that is part of what is holding him up. Back in the trike days, he got bored with just riding around, and took to taking sharp turns and falling, ha ha. I think you're on to something with speed, though.Go to a field and practice falling. Sit him on the non-moving bike and let him fall on his side. He will put his hands and feet out to catch himself, and thus should be limited. Even if you have to climb on the bike and fall on your own side, show him it won't hurt.
Honestly, fear may be playing a Huge part, and once he realizes that most falls will be slight, it will make progress much faster.
After this, speed helps keep him stabilized, so slow, wobbly travel is making it harder for him to balance.
Once he realizes that you know what you are talking about, he will find it easier to trust you and get out of his own head.
What Bill said plus try holding on to the seat to stabilize him as he pedals and once he is going good step back and let him go.
Also show him how to stick his leg out to stop the fall once he starts to fall.
Good luck Pops.
I forgot to say...take the trainers off!
Thought I replied a few days ago, I don't know where my post went. Oh well.
We never had training wheels. He started (from his 3rd b-day to his 5th) on a "balance bike" (a small bike with no pedals) and got the concepts of balance and that speed was his friend.
At 5 (actually Nana gave it to him a month early) he got a real bike. I took the trainers off before he ever sat on it and he rode solo on his 1st try. He had to learn to pedal and how to brake, but got it quickly.
This year (at 6) he wanted a bike with hand brakes to start riding trails and was upgraded (thanks Pap & Nana) to a 6-speed trail bike.
My best advice is to have the bike suffer a traumatic accident in the garage in which the trainers are damaged beyond repair. Once they are gone, necessity will speed the learning process. Also, ride yourself. The thrill of riding with Dad may provide the needed motivation.
Hoping for the best!Hanna started tests today and will be doing more in two weeks. They took 9 tubes of blood so far for testing. Won't know all the results for quite a while. She will have to have the tests done every year.
Thanks Glenn, the little victories sure are uplifting.Good job, Mykel! Little victories, I always say!
Will do Pete, but no longer than 4 hours at a time.nicely done, Myke, keep it up, bud
![]()
Sorry to read this.A little over two weeks until Becky and Jonny's wedding, and Jonny's grandmother passed away last night. She was 94.