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How far away from home did you ride your bike when you were a kid ?
Posted on 7/18/25 at 3:55 pm
Posted on 7/18/25 at 3:55 pm
Stumbled on a bunch of videos on social media about being kids in the 80s and 90s and it got me thinking.
My parents had no idea just how far we would ride our bikes. There were some days where we would ride our bikes to friends who lived 15-20 minute CAR drives away
God watching these videos brings back some great memories and has me in my feels
My parents had no idea just how far we would ride our bikes. There were some days where we would ride our bikes to friends who lived 15-20 minute CAR drives away
God watching these videos brings back some great memories and has me in my feels
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Posted on 7/18/25 at 3:57 pm to LSUguy2023
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There were some days where we would ride our bikes to friends who lived 15-20 minute CAR drives away
That’s how you end up fighting monsters in the upside down.
Posted on 7/18/25 at 3:57 pm to LSUguy2023
As far as I wanted as long as I was home by supper.
Posted on 7/18/25 at 3:57 pm to LSUguy2023
I can't remember the miles to your mom's house
Posted on 7/18/25 at 3:58 pm to LSUguy2023
Not far at all because I lived in a rural area.
Which is specifically why I live in a neighborhood in a city. I want my kids to be able to ride their bikes to friend's houses in the neighborhood (or adjacent neighborhoods). I couldn't jump on my bike and ride 10+ miles on a highway with a 55mph speed limit.
Which is specifically why I live in a neighborhood in a city. I want my kids to be able to ride their bikes to friend's houses in the neighborhood (or adjacent neighborhoods). I couldn't jump on my bike and ride 10+ miles on a highway with a 55mph speed limit.
Posted on 7/18/25 at 3:58 pm to Grumpy McSmiles
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As far as I wanted as long as I was home by supper.
Streetlights for me, lol.
Posted on 7/18/25 at 3:59 pm to LSUguy2023
At 14 I was making routine 50 mile loops pretty much every afternoon.
Posted on 7/18/25 at 4:00 pm to SallysHuman
I rode all over after the streelights came on
Posted on 7/18/25 at 4:02 pm to LSUguy2023
13 yo me rode from Grand Cane to Mansfield to finger bang a chick in her mothers pool house.
Posted on 7/18/25 at 4:02 pm to LSUguy2023
Mostly in a 3ish mile vicinity which at times pretty far from your usual subdivision running around
Posted on 7/18/25 at 4:03 pm to LSUguy2023
One year I got a new bicycle for my birthday, think it was my 10th or 11th birthday. Walmart was about 15 or so miles from home. She let me ride it home. When I got there she and my bother weren’t even home. They’d gone somewhere. I had to sit there locked out of the house until they got home.
Posted on 7/18/25 at 4:03 pm to LSUguy2023
Far enough that if I had to call my parents to come get me, there would have been an arse whoopin when we got home. Places in BTR that I wouldn't go in an armed car in broad daylight today.
Posted on 7/18/25 at 4:03 pm to LSUguy2023
No idea actually mileage but it was far.
I lived very rural, in the middle of Kisatchie, and there are miles upon miles of 4 wheeler trails. We would ride the trails all over.
I eventually graduated to riding 4 wheelers everywhere around 12ish.
I lived very rural, in the middle of Kisatchie, and there are miles upon miles of 4 wheeler trails. We would ride the trails all over.
I eventually graduated to riding 4 wheelers everywhere around 12ish.
Posted on 7/18/25 at 4:03 pm to LSUguy2023
I would ride to neighboring towns, so 10-15 miles one way was pretty common.
Posted on 7/18/25 at 4:04 pm to LSUguy2023
It felt like the other side of the universe. It was actually about 2.5-3 miles. From my house to the boat ramp/ buddy with a pool/ store.
Posted on 7/18/25 at 4:04 pm to LSUguy2023
We went several miles. I lived near a railroad track and we would find an open door or flat car and ride for miles, then jump off and pedal home.
Posted on 7/18/25 at 4:05 pm to LSUguy2023
Bordelonville La to Hamburg La on Hwy 451.
+/- 30 miles.
+/- 30 miles.
Posted on 7/18/25 at 4:05 pm to LSUguy2023
Generally we didn’t ride more than 2 or 3 miles, but most of the route was a long a narrow road with no shoulder.
We would cut grass and get paid then have money to ride to a Pizza Hut or a game room place to play video games or shoot pool.
This was when my friends and I were 12-13.
We would cut grass and get paid then have money to ride to a Pizza Hut or a game room place to play video games or shoot pool.
This was when my friends and I were 12-13.
Posted on 7/18/25 at 4:07 pm to LSUguy2023
Very far, back then we wasn’t allowed in the house during the summer months except to eat lunch.
Oh and you didn’t come through the front door either as to not get dirt everywhere in the living room. You used the back door.
If you got thirsty there was the hose pipe.
Oh and you didn’t come through the front door either as to not get dirt everywhere in the living room. You used the back door.
If you got thirsty there was the hose pipe.
Posted on 7/18/25 at 4:10 pm to LSUguy2023
From Village St George to downtown Baton Rouge(we'd take Burbank to Nicholson/River Road) and neighborhoods way up Oneal Lane(Woodlands & Centurion Place).
I was a really skinny distance runner from 8-16 yrs old. So riding a bike 30 miles round trip was nothing if I got to frick off downtown or hang out with friends across town.
I was a really skinny distance runner from 8-16 yrs old. So riding a bike 30 miles round trip was nothing if I got to frick off downtown or hang out with friends across town.
This post was edited on 7/18/25 at 5:15 pm
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