Why Do Kids Love Riding Bikes?

How often do you see young people riding their bikes around your neighbourhood? All the time right? They chase each other up and down the street, they practice skidding round corners and jumping over kerbs and all the time with a big grin on their faces. But why is it that their typically short attention spans manage to hold for hours and hours and never seem to get bored? Here are a few suggestions why: Freedom One of the biggest reasons why kids enjoy cycling around may be the one they don't realise. Being in control of a bike and being able to go where they want quickly offers them possibly the first taste of freedom in their lives.
Children will spend most of their lives at home or at school and may be able to go and hang out with their friends outside.
A bike offers them much more freedom to move around at will.

While they may not be able to put a name on the feeling, they certainly feel more free on a bike.
Transport If you drive then you know what it was like when you first started driving on your own.
You could forget the bus, stop waiting for lifts from friends and family and stop walking completely as having your own mode of transport is a great feeling.
Not only does this give you freedom it is also a practicality that you can suddenly appreciate.

Going to the shops is less of a chore, going to your friend's house takes a fraction of the time and you can even take yourself to school.

Showing Off Being able to jump off a kerb, over a pot hole and then back up onto the opposite kerb may not look that impressive to you, but to a kid that shows that they are in control of their 'vehicle' and that they can do something skillful which their friends just might be envious of. Not only this but if they have a bike which is a certain colour or which has BMX grips or is some kind of hybrid bike, this all adds up to a great tool for showing off.

Exercise Even though they may not know it, kids enjoy the exercise they get from cycling.

If you offered them a cycling machine in their bedroom it would probably never get used.
But give them a blue BMX bike with a whole skate park to ride around in, they will be off like a shot and not come back until dark. Exercise releases pleasure chemicals in everyone's body so part of the smile they get from cycling is down to this inadvertent exercise.