Minibikes and Hammers
Backstory: This winter, on one of our bike rides to the grocery store, Hannah and I came upon a guy loading minibikes on the back of a trailer behind the K-mart. I struck up a converstation (much to Hannah’s dismay.. ha) and it turns out he travels the east coast, and has a contract to buy all retured minibikes from Kmart for a set price (I’m guess it’s, oh, ~75$ each?) Anyway, the returns run the gamut from completly worn out (why did they take it back?? the tires are WORN OUT.. you know what it takes to wear a tire off of a minibike??) to brand new, still in the box. Kmart sells them for 500$, 400$ on sale occationally. This guy said he would sell me one right there for 200$. Well, since is was one that was right out of the box with 0 miles, I figured that was a pretty good deal!
That said, it sat in the garage until recently when Melinda asked to ride it. I dont think they have been off of it since. Rockwell, Melinda and a couple friends have been riding it.
Rockwell in action.
Melinda is having way more fun on this than I expected her too.. I dont know why I didn’t think she would, She is inclined toward mechanical things…
When Melinda and her friend Hannah were not riding this thing, they were putting doors on the grounded tree house, and painting some things on the inside. Gotta like when kids weild hammers!
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