Did you know that May is National Bike Month? I just found that out myself.
I miss riding a bike. When I was a child, and even well into my teens, I used to love to ride my bike. I would ride it everywhere. My friends and I would ride our bikes into town on a daily basis during summer vacation and on the weekends.
I haven’t rode a bike in about 30 years. My husband and I talk about getting bikes often. Our kids have bikes (although my daughter is in need of a new one). We often talk about ride bikes around a park called Rockland Lake. The trip around the lake is 3 miles. We usually walk it. We think it would be fun to ride bikes around the lake instead. There used to be a bike rental available there but it closed down due to the economy.
I wanted to buy my husband a bike this past Christmas but I think it’s something he’d need to pick out. There are so many different shapes and styles of bikes that it would be hard to pick the perfect one for him. I rather he do it himself.
Riding a bike is not only Earth friendly (compared to other modes of transportation) but it’s also a fabulous way to exercise. Not only that, it’s a fun thing to do as a family.
On May 9, 2012 there will be the first ever National Bike to School Day. That is an awesome idea! If it was possible I’d have my kids bike to school. My son gets bussed across town and my daughter’s bike is too small for her. If it was feasible I’d certainly encourage my children to do that.
If you would like more information about the event you can find more it here, www.WalkBiketoSchool.org. There you can learn the basics as well as check out the learning and resource tools.
Whether your family loves riding bikes for fitness, for fun, or to save money on gas, Walmart is making biking easier than ever with a wide assortment of bikes and accessories at low prices.
Walmart offers bikes and accessories for every member of the family at low prices including:
- An assortment of girls and boys bikes starting at $58.
- Several bikes available only at Walmart including the Kent Super 32-inch Cruiser for $199 and Girls 20-inch Schwinn-Quality Spirit Bike for $99.
- An assortment of Schwinn helmets starting at $16.96.
- An assortment of air pumps starting at $9.96.
- $20 eGift Card with every Cruiser purchase at Walmart.com (available online only in celebration of National Bike Month)
- More than 20 bike trailers available on Walmart.com that can be shipped for free to a Walmart store through Walmart’s Site to Store service.
Check out this interesting bike facts infographic.
Here is another interesting fact - 66.4% of bikes sold at Walmart last year were kids bikes and that top-selling bikes at Walmart were pink, black, red and blue.
To find a Walmart near you visit www.Walmart.com.
Walmart would like to give a lucky winner a $25.00 Walmart Gift Card, which you can use towards a new bike or bike accessories (or whatever you would like to spend it on). Thank you Walmart.
This giveaway is open to US residents only and will end on May 19, 2012 at 12:01 AM (EST). The winner will be chosen at random using a random number generator from all eligible entries.
Kimberly
*I will be receiving compensation for this campaign in the form of a gift card. There is no other compensation. The opinions expressed are my own. Walmart will be providing the prize.
About Kimberly
My fave biking memories are just remembering the freedom riding a bike gave me as a kid.
I got a brand new bike for my 9th birthday and it was stolen from my front yard a few months later.
My favorite biking memory is when I went biking on the Blue Ridge Mountains with my family when I was little.
i used to ride my bike alot when i was a kid!
I like biking because it’s a good exercise. It helps me stay fit.
I always loved biking. It reminds me of when every kid out out on their bike in the neighborhood after school
I like to ride bikes that you can rent when you go to the beach espeacially in Virginia just perfect on the boardwalk, a great way to stay cool with the breeze blowing against you and to see everything, lots of fun. The younger years of our Naval living I loved riding my bike with my daughter behind me in her kids seat, we roade every evening to a near by duck pond to feed the ducks, once she fell asleep behind me & I remember having one of my hands behind me holding her up against my back she didn’t bobble like a floater on the water lol
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I remember as a kid going so fast down a hill i couldnt stop and rode of the embakement and busted up my knees. But it was fun.
I love that my kids enjoy it and we can do it together.
It’s great exercise that can be done with the whole family
i used to love riding my bike to school everyday
I need a new bike – I am terrible on them but would love to start using one for a different kind of exercise – to ride local trails.
My favorite biking memory was riding my bike down the street with my friends when I was 6 or 7.
I remember riding on bikes with my family when I was little at the park.
I like that it is good exercising & is rejuvenating.
I remember hitting a gate that normally opened when you bumped it with the bike, but it was locked and I flipped up and over and bit all the way through my lip. I wanted to keep riding but my friend made me go home and my parents drug me to the hospital.
I remember I would ride my bike up the road hoping this guy would be riding his too an we would meet and talk.I had a big crush on him.Nothing ever became of that tho
I love how easy it is and I find it relaxing too.
Thanks so much.
I love biking because I get to know my community well because of it.
While I can’t call it a favorite memory the one that has stayed with me the longest is the wreck I had that turned me against bike riding for many years. I was young and carefree. I loved the fell of wind blowing over my sunburned skin and through my hair. I rode without fear … then my bike got away from me and about 75% of that sunburned skin got left on the roadway. It took about 10 years before I would even get back on a bike and to this day I’m still a bit leery of trying.