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  • March 1, 2010 at 5:42 am #98135

    Roy
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    Was prepping my bike for a ride on the weekend and as normal my 5 year old son was trying to helpful with the tools. He’s always been keen but up until now hasn’t really known one end of a spanner from the other. Anyway this time he wheels over his pushy, flips it over wheels side up and next thing I know he’s undone the front brakes and taken the front wheel off (He even used the right size spanner).

    I didn’t know whether to be proud or scared shitless so I went with my first instinct and congratulated him on his great skills and told him I was proud.

    Of course he has no idea about putting anything back together. So now I am scared. I will have to double check everything on my bike after each of his helping sessions to make sure he hasn’t undone something like a front brake caliper.

    It was funny he was playing with something up the back of my bike and I say “what are you doing mate” to which he replied “nothing”. I then say “so which bit were you touching” thinking I could at least run my eye over it, he then replied “wasn’t touching anything”. All I could think of was my response to the same questions 35 years ago. Now I know why my answers seemed to frustrate my dad so much.

    Don’t get me wrong I am as happy as a pig in mud and I am going to encourage this interest in being practical. I just know what I did as a kid and how much respect I showed the old mans tools. I also know how many things I pulled apart only to have spare bits on completion of the “rebuild”.

    I suppose this is what you call karma. Time to lock away the tools (well at least the good/expensive ones anyway).

    Here’s to many hours of tinkering with the young bloke (and hopefully his younger sister) in the shed.

    March 1, 2010 at 6:06 am #172315

    Damo
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    I’d be puffin me chest out proud!!!!!!!

    March 1, 2010 at 6:23 am #172319

    John
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    Its a bloody good feeling i reakon. My blokes only 2 and a half but gets out in the shed with me with his plastic tools and mimics everything i do. He even pushes his plastic lawnmower around after me while doing the lawns. (with his earmuffs and goggles on)

    Should be proud cause i know i am. ;)

    March 1, 2010 at 6:35 am #172316

    mike
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    g’day there Bundyroy

    yeah mate it’s good fun when the kids get into it with in the shed. it reminded me when my youngest boy was about 3 or 4 and was out helpin me with my bike. when i went to put it all back together me axel nut was missin. a couple a days later i found it in the mowers catcher vent with a spanner to keep it company. he still loves it now and he is turnin 12 this year.

    March 1, 2010 at 6:41 am #172325

    Roy
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    Dusty wrote:

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    when i went to put it all back together me axel nut was missin.

    I know what you mean Dusty. I have to allow an extra 1/2 an hour for my bike prep so that I have time to find all the tools from my bum bag. They can be anywhere in the shed. Of course it goes without saying when the kids are asked “where’s such and such”, the response is along the lines of “can’t remember”.

    March 1, 2010 at 6:50 am #172327

    Fez
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    Don’t bother putting those tools away because he actually owns them now :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

    March 1, 2010 at 7:28 am #172328

    John
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    Bundyroy wrote:

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    Dusty wrote:

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    when i went to put it all back together me axel nut was missin.

    I know what you mean Dusty. I have to allow an extra 1/2 an hour for my bike prep so that I have time to find all the tools from my bum bag. They can be anywhere in the shed. Of course it goes without saying when the kids are asked “where’s such and such”, the response is along the lines of “can’t remember”.

    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: I look in me bikes exhaust for my tools. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

    March 1, 2010 at 7:32 am #172335

    glenn
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    best feeling in the world bundy,, my 5 year old is in the shed every time i`m in there, he even puts his plastic ride on quad on my bike stand and tinkers with tools like his working on it. Of course this now means I cant leave any tools laying around.

    Boony

    March 2, 2010 at 12:31 am #172339

    Bruce Curtis
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    It’s great feeling, we used to live opposite some great people had kids the same age as ours, one day My mate from across the road is in my shed while I’m prepping the oldest kids’ BMX race bikes and we’re yapping away in comes Mr B just turned 4, with his little 12″ pavement bike. he grabs a 14mm spanner undoes the rear axle nuts pulls off his training wheels and puts the nuts back on and tightens them and anounces he is ready to ride with just 2 wheels. My mate Colins’ jaw was almost on the floor, told me “no way would his 4 yr old do that” I replied calmly “oh yeah he does that sorta thing all the time”. When Colin walked back over to his place in amazement I picked my little bloke up and gave him the biggest hug.
    He’s still like it at 9 pumps up his own tyres, adjusts his own brakes, tightens the chain, helps me mix fuel etc, is currently assisting me do the topend rebuild on his bike and asks what everything is for and i usually show him then let him do it while i watch. His mates bring their bikes over for him to fix, he takes great pride in showing them how to put chains back on, adjust them, get wheels off so I can fix the punctures, change pedals, crank arms all that stuff.
    If you make it fun Bundy, no negativity, you’ll have a shed mate for the rest of your life, and as your eyes and fingers go, he’ll do it for you.
    Bonus, my young fella loves all things mechanical, so much so he does the mowing and whippersnippering at the drop of a hat.
    that my friends is a huge bonus.

    March 2, 2010 at 12:46 am #172398

    Jason Green
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    I can’t wait for my young bloke to help me with the garden chores at the moment he just follows me around with the plastic mower .Santa got him a 2nd hand crf50 with training wheels but he is to little as he is only 3 dad was a bit over keen when he spotted the near new crf50 for $1600 but Iam waiting for him to ask me when he can ride it

    March 2, 2010 at 4:45 am #172399

    Mick D
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    My daughter is the one that has taken a heap of interest in what goes on in the shed. One day a bloke was in the shed having a yarn with me and she grabbed an old carby and a cordless drill and in no time she had the float bowl off and then back on, much to old mates amazement.

    The young fella is a pain in the arse,he comes down the shed pulls something apart and leaves it in pieces and the tools laying here there and every where in the shed. :angry: Although he does fix his pushbikes and does the air filters on his and his sisters bikes.

    Even if they aren’t going to be mechanics when they leave school,quality shed time will put them in good stead for fixing things later in life.

    March 2, 2010 at 9:38 am #172427

    scott bocking
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    My little man, 14 months, is too young to be on the tools but he loves coming out to the shed with me. He knows the brooomm, brooomm is in there and gets very excited when I unlock the door.
    I put an MTB in a work stand and he will turn the crank and watch the wheel spin and never seems to get bored.
    He did start to cough badly the other day and when I went to check on him he had chewed a knob of my front tyre and had it stuck in his mouth so he has a fair bit to learn yet on how to change tyres. Chewing it off the rim is not the fastest way :laugh:

    STM

    March 2, 2010 at 10:03 am #172442

    Fez
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    singletrackmind wrote:

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    I put an MTB in a work stand and he will turn the crank and watch the wheel spin and never seems to get bored.
    STM

    Fingers Fingers. I’m not being an old fudy dudy but in my line of work you see little ones hurt in the most simple ways. So pls keep an eye on him as he would be old enough now to get you a beer and open it and I would hate to see you missing out on that.

    March 2, 2010 at 10:15 am #172317

    Damo
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    My boy always has to help dad in the shed, (even if he is a pain sometimes) I love it! B) Choppin firewood today he comes out with his plastic chainsaw and googles and helps me out! 😆 He’s strong for a little 4 year old, stackin up the logs. Had to draw the line at him wanting to help me weld!!!!! Not just yet! :dry:

    He loves riding the JR50 with dad in the paddock, races me on the Berg! He’s a hoon! :woohoo:

    March 2, 2010 at 10:35 am #172446

    scott bocking
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    Uncle Fester wrote:

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    singletrackmind wrote:

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    I put an MTB in a work stand and he will turn the crank and watch the wheel spin and never seems to get bored.
    STM

    Fingers Fingers. I’m not being an old fudy dudy but in my line of work you see little ones hurt in the most simple ways. So pls keep an eye on him as he would be old enough now to get you a beer and open it and I would hate to see you missing out on that.

    Cheers for the heads up Fez but I keep an eye on him. If he steps behind then bottom bracket I move him away.

    Besides, I have seen Ollie ride and fingers are over rated. He is F%^$in quick!

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