Ekagra goes biking

Today we bought a bicycle for Ekagra. We bought a tricyle for him when he was 1 year and 4 months old. He didn't enjoy the tricycle much. Nowadays in our apartment complex, all kids of his age ride bicycles. When we go out for a walk in the evening, Ekagra wants to ride on his friends bicycles. Sometime he tends to snatch a bicycle from some other kid of his age. Gitika has been telling me for last couple of weeks that it's time we buy a bicycle for Ekagra.

Today we went to a cycle shop at Marathahalli. It's on the first floor while going towards old airport from Marathahalli bridge. We saw some bicycles there. There were bikes of many brands there. Some of the brands were unknown and possibly made in China. We didn't like the manner of the guys at that shop. So we soon left the shop. We went to a BSA showroom named BSA Go at Koramangala. It's on the left hand side after crossing the Ejipura traffic signal while going from Indira Nagar side.

We found BSA Go store to be good. They had many varieties of cycles of BSA brand. They have an extensive catalog too apart from the models on display. They told us that they can assemble any of the bikes from the catalog in about three hours time. We decided to buy from one of the models on display. We then had a confusion; whether to buy a 14 inch or a 16 inch one. We called a friend whose kid is of the same age as Ekagra and their son has a bicycle. They told us that they bought a 14" one;  but later found that their son can now ride on a 16" one also. So we decided to buy the 16".

We selected two different models: one was priced Rs 2500 and the other one Rs 3150. The one at Rs 2500 was ok; but it was a bit girlish. So we decided to buy the other one. It's named BSA Go Biking. It's has two colours in it: black and yellow. It has two years warranty on the frames and fork for any manufacturing defect.

In the evening, we took Krishu out for biking inside our apartment complex. He is not yet able to do full paddle. But he enjoyed the evening.