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re: How far away from home did you ride your bike when you were a kid ?
Posted on 7/18/25 at 4:10 pm to LSUguy2023
Posted on 7/18/25 at 4:10 pm to LSUguy2023
Miles and miles. If we were bored, we'd often ride from Kenner to the NOLA lakefront.
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Posted on 7/18/25 at 4:16 pm to boxcarbarney
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we'd often ride from Kenner to the NOLA lakefront.
What route did you take?
Posted on 7/18/25 at 4:20 pm to JEC119
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wasn’t allowed in the house during the summer months except to eat lunch.
Mom hire neighborhood baby sitters to watch me, but those girls weren’t worth much other than I guess making sure I didn’t burn the house down.
One day my parents came home from work and they couldn’t find me for a few hours. My friends and I were way back in the woods floating in a pond with ice chest. LOL
Posted on 7/18/25 at 4:20 pm to LSUguy2023
As a kid in Lafayette, I can't think of anything I'd have wanted to ride 20 miles to get to. The Mall was always a long haul. I'm not sure how many miles that is, but that's basically the edge of town, the other edge being way less desirable. 
Posted on 7/18/25 at 4:20 pm to LSUguy2023
As far as I wanted. There were no restrictions by my parents.
Posted on 7/18/25 at 4:23 pm to notiger1997
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What route did you take?
Quick way would be the bike path behind the levee.
Sometimes we would just wander around different neighborhoods while heading east.
Posted on 7/18/25 at 4:23 pm to LSUguy2023
I rode the bike path in New Orleans from Causeway to UNO and then all the way out to Williams where Treasure Chest casino.is now.
Ran across a perv in a car a few blocks from home.
Ran across a perv in a car a few blocks from home.
Posted on 7/18/25 at 4:23 pm to LSUguy2023
On weekends or especially during the summer easily 10+ miles a day and many times in the 20's.
Posted on 7/18/25 at 4:25 pm to LSUguy2023
I pretty much stayed within a 1 1/2 mile radius.
Posted on 7/18/25 at 4:27 pm to jake wade
I grew up in Sherwood Forest near Goodwood. Would ride my bike every day to the aquatic club and swim all day during the summers. Sometimes we’d ride to the Braodmore theater for a theater for a movie or to hit KB drug store up for some Aqua Net hairspray to power our potato gun.
Posted on 7/18/25 at 4:28 pm to LSUguy2023
The farthest was about 8 miles to West End in New Orleans to check out skateboards at Windsurf New Orleans.
Posted on 7/18/25 at 4:28 pm to LSUguy2023
From Trailwood Rd to Raymond drive lol
Posted on 7/18/25 at 4:29 pm to LSUguy2023
I grew up on Air Force bases. I could go anywhere as long as I didn’t leave the base.
Posted on 7/18/25 at 4:30 pm to boxcarbarney
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Sometimes we would just wander around different neighborhoods
That had to be cool as kids.
During Covid I rode all around the city and loved getting a feel for the different neighborhoods
Posted on 7/18/25 at 4:31 pm to LSUguy2023
No speed heavy metal bike (back pedal brake) and rode it far as my legs would take me.
Posted on 7/18/25 at 4:32 pm to LSUguy2023
Out in the country, usually just a mile or so but there wasn’t anywhere to really go. One time, (jr high age) about 8 miles round trip to a friends house and I was freaking dying trying to make it back home.
Present day, that route is used by cyclists for conditioning due to the damn hills and valleys - which I did not know then.
Present day, that route is used by cyclists for conditioning due to the damn hills and valleys - which I did not know then.
Posted on 7/18/25 at 4:32 pm to notiger1997
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That had to be cool as kids.
It was a blast
Posted on 7/18/25 at 4:32 pm to HeadCall
quote:Nice. We were buying Aqua Net because we discovered there were a bunch of cute girls living 5 or 6 blocks away.
Aqua Net hairspray to power our potato gun
Posted on 7/18/25 at 4:33 pm to LSUguy2023
15-20 miles on the regular. Longer trips mostly at night and involved some strange.
Was great living in a small town.
Was great living in a small town.
Posted on 7/18/25 at 4:34 pm to LSUguy2023
In the 80s I lived with m grandparents in Mississippi and I would ride at night under stars listening to White Lion but had to be home by 10.
In the 70s we lived abroad and I would be gone for days and nobody would notice.
In the 70s we lived abroad and I would be gone for days and nobody would notice.
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