Bicycle! BIKE!!! BIIIIIIIIKE!

Wal and I have been on the look­out for a bike for Squidge, one that didn’t have slutty dolls, princesses or car­toons.  Do you have any idea how dif­fi­cult it is to find a bike like that??  I didn’t want it to be pink either, I like pri­mary colours so thought that a nice red bike would be fan­tas­tic. We finally struck gold when Wal checked out Ridge­back (Wal has a ridge­back moun­tain bike) and found they have a fan­tas­tic line of kids bikes.  The bike is pink (sigh) and it is devoid of any decals depict­ing slutty dolls, silly pri­nesses or big breasted Bar­bie dolls.  There are no explor­ers or tanks and trains or any­thing like that.  It’s just a plain bike.  <insert con­tented sigh here>.  Now I’m sure most of you are won­der­ing why it’s such a big deal and I sup­pose in the grand scheme of things it’s not a big deal.  I just feel like she is exposed enough already.  I don’t need her tooth­brush to have a Thomas the Tank engine on it or her bike to be spon­sored by Bratz.  They should just be tooth­brushes and bikes.  So while I still have a lit­tle bit of con­trol I’m made a con­scious deci­sion not to buy items that are embla­zoned w/ the lat­est and great­est cartoon. 

OK so I lied a lit­tle bit– the bike DOES have a decal on it. Do you see it on the top pic­ture? That lit­tle blog on the bar right under the seat?  It’s a car­toon face of a girl.  I’m think­ing it’s sup­pose to be Honey as that’s the ‘name’ of the bike.

Squidge is get­ting to be an expert on the bike.  When we were at the bike shop she didn’t even know how to get on so any­thing would be an improve­ment.  I’ve added a cute bell and a bas­ket (not shown) so she’s styling.  Now we have to get my bike and we’ll be able to head out for a bit of fam­ily fun– I can’t wait!!

Edited to add: This is not to say that she doesn’t own loads of ‘dis­ney’ just that I try to find alter­na­tives if they’re available.