When I was a kid my buddy and I were never off our bikes. We rode everywhere, played hockey on them on the ice rink, fishing down at the lake for smelts. Who had a flap from a cigarette pack in their front or rear wheel that hit the spokes? Riding down the road with your girlfriend siting on the crossbar. I did that many a time. No helmets, no gloves and if you crashed you ripped the skin off your arm but back out again once you were cleaned up. What a great time in my life. We had fun and no electronics thank goodness or would have missed all that