Bea was keen to go for a “big girl’s ride” again, so decided to find another bridleway that was a little quieter, and hopefully simpler to navigate, and maybe with some gentle slopes in. Found a good route that was far enough away to mean the bike rack was needed on the car.
I put on my proper bike gear, and found some old cycling shorts from one of the boys for Bea – with proper padding in!
Bea is getting better at the braking – I’ve been teaching her to “weeeee” down hills with her feet off the pedals so she can get the feeling of adjusting the brake pressure rather than just jamming them on to stop quickly. Gradually getting there on a couple of the hills here.
She found some of the ride hard, made harder mostly by her desire to ride through the centre of EVERY puddle. Whilst it was funny getting sprayed (I was behind) with mud off her rear wheel, there were a couple of tumble moments when the bike just stopped as she hit the mud. One time she went over the bars, and both brakes got buried in the slime.
Not quite as far as last weekend’s ride of 4miles, but there were slopes, tunnels and ditches to navigate and avoid; she pulled an amazing emergency stop when she wobbled towards a ditch – I was super impressed her reaction was to jam on both brakes and she stopped herself from going over. We managed a little over 2 miles, and I think she was more exhausted than last week!
Managed to get the Garmin GPS watch working and was able to track our route here:
Here’s a little YouTube video taken as we were “weeeeee-ing” down the road to the car:
And a photo for good measure:
