Pedaling Through Memories: Reflection on childhood bike adventures.

Hello everyone,
Season greetings to everyone
This my first time here, my love for cycling brought me here inorder to connect with like minds.

Growing up we all must have gotten promises from our parents at least once if we got good grades, well I was promised a bicycle 🥺.
Well before I tell you if the promise was met let me tell you how I got the passion of riding a bicycle, I had this neighbor who owned a bicycle and loved riding around the streets he was a good friend of mine and also the person who taught me how to ride a bicycle, he would give me his bicycle for hours to practice riding and always corrected me of one mistake many of us make when we learn to ride a bicycle for the first time which is looking at the pedals while riding instead of actually concentrating on the road😂😂 I know most of us were guilty of this very mistake. Well, it took me a while to handle riding a bike because of one major challenge which was the busy streets of Lagos that did not give me the space to learn well, yes I fell a couple of times and hid the injury because I wouldn't be able to tell my parents I took the risk to ride a bike on the busy streets of Lagos because after treating my wounds I would be punished for days, so I bore the pains and hid the wounds, sometimes I get caught though because of how observant my mother is and end up getting treated and punished 😂, but it did not stop me from sneaking out to ride my friends bicycle.

Seeing how passionate I was about riding a bicycle my dad once promised me if I should surpass my mates in school by getting better grades he would get me a bicycle, after putting in the effort I finally did it, and I couldn't wait to get home from school that day. Immediately my dad got back from work I did not even wait for him to shower or freshen up I brought out my result and showed him which he was happy about but then knew he had to meet up with his end of the bargain. Well, that was how I got my first cycle, I would race with my friend for hours and go on every errand with it.

God help me I neglect my chores then I'm in big trouble cause my bicycle would be seized for days, so if I wanted to have enough time with my bike I would do all the chores and school work before I went out to ride with my friend. Up till this very day I still love riding bikes.