While we were on vacation, we ended up as the unintentional owners of a pair of bicycles.

We were shopping for a camp chair for Oliver, and we found ourselves next to a Goodwill. We decided to go inside and look around, but before we even got inside we saw two bikes sitting outside with a sign that said, “I’m for sale!”

There was a brand new mountain bike for $15. The tires were a little flat, but it looked like it had just been sitting in someone’s garage and never used. There was also a well-used racing bike for $10. Although it had obviously seen a lot of use, it looked like it was pretty well taken care of and only needed a new seat. So $25 total for a pair of pretty good looking bikes. We didn’t have any bikes (though we already had helmets from our trip to Mackinac), so we figured, “What the heck?” The icing on the cake is when we put air in the mountain bike tires and they held! So we didn’t even need to replace the inter-tubes.

We were pretty jazzed about our purchase, but the question now is, what do we do with them?

Surprisingly, we just don’t have much of an opportunity to use them. I say surprisingly because Sara walks all over the neighborhood, so you’d think this would be a godsend. But the kids complicate this quite a bit. Evie might be able to keep up if it was a short trip, but what do we do with Oliver? It’s just not worth the purchase (or the storage!) of some kind of trailer or anything. Even to ride the bike recreationally, we’d be talking about one of us going for a ride while the other stayed with the kids. Not all that appealing for either of us!

I’m sure we’ll be able to get more use out of them when the kids are older. You don’t pass up a deal like 2 bikes for $25! In the meantime, any suggestions on what we do with the bikes?