Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 31, 2014

Ride ’Em cowboy!

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Have to have a docile bike too, Dad.

I treated my bike like my best friend. I went everywhere with it.

Money! And that’s what he’s worried/thinking about? Say it ain’t so!

He’s harnessed his Tiggercycle, offspring of Tricycle .

I’ve never understood why boys’/men’s bikes still have the horizontal bar across the top. I know that girls’/women’s bikes were originally designed for riders wearing long skirts, but it just seems more, uh, practical for everyone not to have a nether region-crunching pole in close proximity to the aforesaid nether regions.

Leo Kottke reference? Cool.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=331yy5r0uWc

“A good, expensive lock,” eh? Where’s the adventure in THAT?

I can sympathize. I didn’t learn to ride a bike until I was 12.

I don’t know why I feel this way; but, I’m thinking “ET” had a hand in this…

Some people suppose that “Frazz” is Calvin grown up. I had suspected so, until today when I remembered how much trouble Calvin had with bicycles.

Nice Sturggle.

It’s a freakin’ sin that any child should have to worry about locking their bike. I think I was about 17 before it ever occurred to me that someone might want to steal it. Having to take the time to lock and unlock a bike is a real nuisance, especially when you just want to get out of the heat.

Gee, Dad, you just don’t get it, do you? Boy, some kids’ parents!