Timeline of My Father’s Bicycle
One of the things that made me so enthusiastic to be on a BMX ride is the tricks. I started to learn pedaling on my first bike which was trash from a son of my father’s friend. He was a Chinese guy and was residing in our country because of his business here. He decided to give it to my father since his son doesn’t do biking anymore because he has grown up. Basically the structure of the bike wasn’t looks like a BMX bike but it was the platform of all my learning. I got several scars because of several crashes that I had experienced during those years. I’ve been riding that bike for several years; from six years old until…maybe I was twelve year old that time when I noticed that I can’t fit anymore on the bike.
So I began to learn riding on the much bigger wheel of my father’s bicycle. It is quite harder for me since it is higher and it weighs much than of the first bike that I have. But in a matter of time I became used to it and also I learned how to fix some basic defects. When I got to college, I found it very hard to spend time on riding the bike because of the hectic schedules. So the wheels were sent out of my sight and I got focused on my students and other things. Until then, my father’s bike wasn’t given the necessary care that why it turned out into a rusty machine.
But now that I am done with my studies, I am trying to restore the bike and make it better than what it is during the past decade. It was assembled by my father in the year of 1989 which was the year of my birth but I came first by the month of September before my father put up the bike in December. So, I should say that it’s about two decades since the bike came to serve us and I just want to restore it. Well just stay tuned for more and I hope I could share a lot more to all of you.