The bicycle gear thing I really do not understand....really!...I have observe parents buying young kids bicycle & then teaching them how to ride the thing....helmet, elbows pads, shoulder pads, knees pads, training wheels... all BRANDED...just to learn how to ride a bicycle?!!....in my days, we learnt how to ride a bicycle on a RALEIGH bicycle.....no training wheels....you fall left, you fall right, you hit stones, fall forward, you fall into drains, down slopes, encounter brake failures.....& thereafter, one become an expert in riding the bicycle in any condition, come rain or shine.
When you look at all these people with their expensive gears....you cant help feeling " hao lian"....