Sorry
about the blurry shots, but they're just too cool
not to use. Last summer, my six-year-old friend Alex Dean-Banks
of State
College,
Pa., thought riding a trail-a-bike on the bikeway
around the West State
Ball Fields here in Athens was "too scary." She and her mom,
Jenn Dean, were trying a borrowed one during a visit to Athens.
Jenn
suspected
Alex would warm up to it, so she went ahead and purchased
one. By last October, Alex was ready to do a short mountain
bike
race on the trail-a-bike behind her dad, Bryan Banks. Now
Alex likes trail-a-biking so much that she and her dad
are accomplishing trails like Tussey Mountain Trail and Three
Bridges Trail (above) in Rothrock
State Forest over in State College. Those are two of the
toughest trails on the East Coast! And, she does sizeable
road and gravel road rides with her mom, in addition to commuting
to school on the trail-a-bike. Three cheers for the Dean-Banks
Family!
— Meredith,
July 15, 2007
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