The Strider Bike

DJ received an orange Strider Running Bike for Christmas.  For those of you who don't know what a running bike is, it's a bike without pedals.  Basically, a kid will Fred Flinstone it, if you will... pedaling with his feet.

We had been considering a running bike since Steve (with DJ in toe) had ventured to REI for something, and another customer (a father, who's boy was looking at a pedal bike) suggested a running bike to Steve for DJ.  The running bike at REI was made of wood, and reviews weren't favorable in terms of its durability.  So Steve looked into finding a more durable (read: metal) version and thus, the Strider Bike.

We hadn't decided to buy it, though, because we weren't sure if DJ would be interested in it.  We saw a great opportunity to gauge his interest when we went to the Kennedy Kriegar Festival of Trees on Thanksgiving Weekend.  There was a local Strider vendor there, and had bikes onsite for kids to try.  DJ, however, showed zero interest.  In fact, he pushed away from me and said "No!"  Apparently, he wanted to go on the carousel more...  Even though DJ wasn't interested in trying it at the time, I was glad to be able to see it in person.

About a week later, DJ asked Daddy where the bicycle was.  He mentioned it 2 or 3 times, and that's what convinced us to get the Strider Running Bike for Christmas.

DJ effectively ignored the Strider bike (and his dinosaur-covered blue Bell helmet) from the day he saw it.  So we let him ignore it.

About 2 days after Christmas, he picked it up long enough to move it. 

About 4 days after Christmas, he turned it over to play with the wheels.

About 7 days after Christmas, he walked along side with it for about 2 minutes.

Then yesterday, he picked it up and really started riding it (via walking, of course).  And Daddy caught it all on film.  As always, this can be watched in HD!




For the record, this is my first attempt at using iMovie in iLife '09 (Steve gave me it for Christmas).  Admittingly, this isn't a quality production but for something homemade, this was absurdly easy to do.  I used GarageBand '09 to edit the song so that it would fade out at the end of the movie but if I'd had 4 minutes of video, I wouldn't have had to use GarageBand at all.  Then, from inside iMovie, I uploaded the finished product to YouTube and voila!  Enjoy!