Happy Bike Month!
Check your reflectors and strap on a helmet, blog readers: it’s Bike Month! (Also, as we mentioned on the blog last year, next month is Bike Month, too. It depends on who you talk to!)
Anyway, in order to properly celebrate this momentous month, I’ve scoured the internet (ie. YouTube) for the most informative video ever made about tubular two-wheelers. And, not to brag or anything, but I was pretty successful. Click here to check it out.
Of all the early bikes featured in the video, I’m partial to the Boneshaker (mainly because of the name) from 1869. According to Wikipedia, the name refers to the “extremely uncomfortable ride.” And, I mean… no wonder! It had wooden wheels and tires made of iron. Ouch!
Post a comment below if you like bikes!
Talk to you soon.
Craig, owlblog@owlkids.com
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I love riding my bike! I ride it every day after school.
I got a really nice bike for Christmas, and I hope to ride it lots when the weather gets nicer. I read an old post, and someone sugjested we start a book club. I’m not sure if this is egsactly (sorry, I dont know how to spell it! I learn in french!) their idea, but we put book recomendations, decide on one, have a bunch of us read it, then discuss it. I think it’s a really good idea, cause we can read good books that other people our age loke, and get their opinions. And all over a computer! I love technology. But I still like real books better that Ereaders. This is kindof a difrent topic, but once in my class, my teacher showed us this comic panel, and it was theese tho people standing next toeach other, holding cellphones, and another person is sitting on a bench reading a book, and one person texts (to the person right next to them): OMG, dis chik is reeding a b%k made of ppr. And the other is just like: OMG, lol. Back to the book club, anyone have any book recomendations? Probably ones good for guys and girs, aged ten to fourteen, and maby less comon ones, that not many people have read. Here are some recomendations:
The Maze Runner
Leviathan
Incarcereon (I think that’s what it’s called)
The Red Necklace
The Mysterious Benedict Society
The Hunger Games
I know the last two are more popular books/series, but I’ve read The Hunger Games, loved it, and would like other’s opinions on it, and am reading The Mysterious Benedict Society. And after we read the books, we can give recomendations of similar books or styles of writing to people who like the book.
All right… sold! I’ll write a post next week asking for suggestions, and then I’ll choose one of them. I’ll follow up with a post about when we have to have it read by, and then we can talk about it in the comments. Thanks for the suggestion.
Love the idea!! It rocks!! Hey, I have a suggestion, Craig:
1) Beacon Street Girls: Freestyle with Avery. By: Annie Bryant.
I love that book!! I have read it and three others. I am reading a Beacon Street Girls book called Ghost Town and it is scary and funny. I loooove it.
i havee read the mysterious benedict Society and beacon street girls
WOOO HOOO! Another Beacon Street Girls Fan!! Who’s your fave, hannah? I don’t know because I love them all. I like Marty and Happy Lucky Thingy, too.
i like avery
Yeah, Avery’s cool. I think I can most relate to Maeve. How about you, hannah?
Do I get a prize for longest comment ever?
I don’t have a suitable prize for you, Madeleine, but you definitely get my heartfelt congratulations! Nice one!
Congrats, Madeleine!!
coonnnnggrraaatts!
*aplause 🙂
I love bikes, Craig!! I just had a garage sale on Saturday and then I moved on Tusday!!! I sold my bike at my garage sale and so my Mom said she was going to buy me a nice new bike!!! Yay!!!! I am so happy!! I love my new house…it is so nice and I really think of it as home. Cool, right?
Very cool! I moved only once when I was younger, but I had the same feeling as you do, Hannah, 10.
I moved once when I was 2, but I don’t remember it. So it’s like this is my only move! Ha-ha.