Access Action: Linking Downtown to Dirt by Philip Keyes
Putting Kids on Bikes
The unstructured play experience that mountain biking provides inspires kids to explore the natural world and leads to positive associations with exercise. Providing more and safer opportunities for kids to ride can have a major impact on our nationwide physical inactivity crisis. Urban riding gets kids to stay on bikes, and makes riding “cool”—especially at the critical age, 16, when kids stop being active and disengage from the outdoors.
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