Start 'em Young - Bikepacking as a Family With Our Two Year-Old
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Bikepacking is one of my favorite ways to explore nature. In this episode, we take my 2 year old out on the trail and plant the seeds of outdoor exploration. We've got a mac-ride mounted to my bike for this trip, and it proved to be the perfect solution to help our daughter enjoy the great outdoors with us on our bikes. Details of the bike build and gear used are here: • DREAM BUILD - Rigid EN...
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As a former Kindergarten teacher, we need more dads like you in the world. 🤙🏽👊🏽
Thank you Being a parent is the best. She is such a joy.
I will say this... This is the best video you have produced hands down. The glow on your and your wife's face is priceless. To say you are proud and invested parents would be the understatement of the century. #proudpapa #proudmama #proudparents Bless your family!
Thank you. Being a parent is my favorite part of life. Having a kid gets a bad rap online but I absolutely love being a parent.
Little Dusty’s excitement and commentary is so awesome! What fun and great memories
When my daughter was in pre school I would pick her up from school with a similar set up on my MTB a little seat on the top tube and I mounted some bar end things either side of the stem ,as she got a little older had to stop because we would bicker who was steering ,lol,good times, very cute,great job
I love thinking back on those days when my kids were little and so cute like little Dusty. Glad you are taking the time to enjoy her at this age! Its such a short time, so precious.
"Don't go on the bumps" [cuts to a shot of the road that looks like the surface of Mars]. Holy cow, I was cracking up. She's already looking for the hardtail lines 😂
That little one is soooooo adorable 😀
My daughter is now 17 and started on a scoot bike when she was 2. Recently we went to ride park with my brother and his family who are biking novices. It was my daughter's first time at a bike park and her aunt told her that she was really impressed with her bike skills. My daughter replied that she has had a lot of "mandatory fun" over the years on bikes and that's why she can ride. They get a lot sassier as they get older but are still pretty funny.
May God bless your little angel and your entire family! Keep on spreading cheer for all to hear.
This is just awesome! She is the cutest thing, especially her commentary. Huge smiles and so many literal LOLs. You two are so great with her and I love that you're getting her out adventuring early. Thanks for posting this...made my day.
Love that All City Electric Queen!
Best hardtail party ever.loved it thoroughly. Your kid is cute.She is awesome
Little dusty is too precious. Little shredder! Looks like her mom and she is so well mannered. good job guys.
Thanks, she's amazing. Her mom deserves all the credit for raising such an amazing human. That said, being her dad is one of the greatest joys in life.
Holy cow how smart is she….. I’m not even paying attention to the biking I’m just impressed how smart she is!!!!!!! Good job raising her!!
She definitely takes after her mom!
A bikepacking video that will melt your heart. Dusty is the envy of every kid on her block.
What a little cutie, she reminds me of my little 3 yo chatterbox. I take mine around everywhere in a front loader cargo bike.
SO GREAT!!! What a good time for your daughter and the rest of you all!
This is so cute♥♥! I LOVE LITTLE DUSTY! SHE IS SO CUTE! Awesome video, I love the scenery!
Ok this is adorable. Makes me can't wait to pack out with my 9 and 12y old boys this summer
This is so adorable. I have done the trailer with bike packing and never the shotgun front loader seat! You guys are awesome! So encouraging for little ones! God bless!
This is adorable and awesome on so many fronts! The baby is a natural, will be bikepacking on her own before her family knows it!
This is awesome! I take my 3 yr old out on his shotgun seat. We've been all over AZ riding together, Prescott, Sedona and all over the valley. We do the same thing, I ask him questions and he tells me what he sees. We talk about the animals we see like Deer, coyote, roadrunners and squirrels among other things. Just today I was telling him we need to go camping and he said "on the bike?" Kids are full great ideas.
Keep up the great work ! In a world of zombie kids stuck to electronics you guys are out making memories.
Aww, she is too adorable! And super smart, too! You guys are clearly doing a great job of exposing her to the natural world and I'm sure you're very proud of her.
Thanks. Being her dad is the best.
"There's bumps everywhere." "Ohh look a cute tarantula!" Love it. Been planning on getting a seat for my just turned 3 year old daughter soon. She's got her balance bike down but I think she'd enjoy actual rides.
These seats are the best. I'm a big fan of the Mac ride. They allow you to visit and chat together on your rides.
Probably the best bikepacking video on UA-cam.
Loved, Loved, Loved this video! Took me back when my daughter was that age. My favorite age. She's 30 now. Cherish it! It goes by so fast! My wife and I used to hitch her up in her Burley trailer to the back of our mountain tandem. Nice that you have the video documentation to look back on.🤙🏻
So cute. Making memories. Smile on both your faces precious. Have fun guys!
Adorable. So awesome.
Brings back good memories of the adventures my daughters and I had when they were that small! Now they are older..its bigger and longer adventures!
Great video. Little Dusty obviously watches her Dad’s videos, her commentary was on point. Thanks for the video Steve and you have a very special little girl.
Your baby girl is a superstar🤘💯😊. Love it. Thanks for sharing your adventure🤘🚵♂️
Nothing beats great family time. Thanks for sharing. Really enjoyed the vid!
Agreed!
im a fulltime children’s gym instructor and race xc parttime and this has got to be the dream for me! 👍
More dads like you please!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼
Absolutely loved this video❤ great to make memories with your kids
Love love love this video ❤
Can't wait to try this with my youngest of 4 daughters this year. She turned 2 last week. We will probably start out with the bike trailer. Wish I started the other 3 out at a young age. Only one of the other 3 have any interest in doing this stuff.
All your videos are awesome. We get bike builds, reviews, getting experimental and a bit into who you are. Great to see the excitement for the sport in the next generation.
This one was so fun!
Omg, your daughter is cuteness overload! So awesome 😊
Steve, she is so precious! That is such a fun age. It is so awesome that you are going on trips like this as a family. Something for me to work for.
8:31 Oh my gosh that was so adorable 🥹
I miss that age! My kids are a lot older at this point, but that was a special time and I'm glad Little Dusty gets to experience your passion early on in life!
Fantastic, thanks for sharing!
Awwwww!
Best place... family ♥️👍🏽
Best video on UA-cam.
This is so awesome!
These family videos are always some of my favorites! It's awesome to see you get out and have fun with the family and just be a dad.
Such an adorable video. Thank you!
I love it! Family, bikes, and backpacking gear. I’m about to explode. 😂 Super cute kid btw. Lol shhh!!! Shhh!!!
Merry Christmas and happy new year to you and yours!!
P.S. Oh hell no with that tarantula.
So cute thank you so much for sharing your family adventure!
More videos with Little Dusty narrating! She is so cute!
So cute!
Great to see you Blaine. Thanks for the kind words.
One of the best videos you’ve done yet. You’ve inspired me to do the same with my daughter that’s the same age.
The cutest!
Holy moly this is heartwarming :D
Can’t wait to do something like this with my boys. I applaud you Steve.
She grew up soooo quick! 😍👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
That was the most incredible family adventure! Thanks so much for sharing it.
Seems like your laugh brought her comfort on the bumpy road part haha
Hopefully it worked. :)
My 2 year old loves to stand and loves making noise on the bumps, too!
What a cute kid. I think she'll have her own channel one day.
This is the best! I am looking forward to doing some bikepacking with the family in the spring/summer. I have taken the little man (Olly going on 3 in feburary) out for a few rides last summer/fall on my sherpa with the macride, a mixture of road, gravel and singel track, he loves it, especially the "bumbity bump" bits (we have a lot of rooty sections). Im working on building an attchment to take the balance bike with us also.
Good parents raise good kids. :)
She's an amazing kid.
@@hardtailparty Nothing says that like "oh, look at the cute tarantula!" :)
So sweet. Great video!
Her voice... 😍
So great to see! My kiddos have been on the trails and roads with me a lot… but we’ve yet to bike pack… what a sweet baby girl! I’m putting some serious thought into planning some bike packing this spring!
That was so cute!!!
Dusty is a very smart kid!
She definitely takes after her mom. :)
“Hey daddy im talking to your camera” ❤😊😊
Super cute ❤
Love it!
Awesome video. Made my daughter wanna ride with me again, but since we have icy temperature here that is not so easy 🥶
I use cold days to plan my next adventure.
Best video ever!
Lol! Adorable 🥰
Oh fine I'll drop a like. Cute kid!
Too cute…enjoy these times because they grow up fast. #GirlsDad
Best video! I would ride with Little Dusty any day. I like to go slower, too. (Patty, Scott's wife)
Shotgun pro? We loving it, 👍🏻
This is actually the mac-ride, the original.
So cute! But the ultimate question is: Is little Dusty Betty going to be riding hartails or full squish bikes? Hmm 🤔
She's certainly not getting a rigid fork. That's for sure.
@@ZanielGa_ But who knows how far her daddy will go with experiments ;).
Have you reached out to On One bikes to review the hello Dave or big dog? Designed by the same guy who designs the ragley and nukeproof frames, also made in the same place as cotic and some chromag frames
Great video how many months is she ..my son just about 22 months hop take him bikepacking without the trailer
Thanks for sharing your family adventure. Could you please share the seat that Dusty was sitting on during your trip?
mac-ride.com/
Super cute! Is that the Kids Ride Shotgun setup?
She's riding on a Mac-Ride seat.
What camera do you use and what mount location do you prefer? I finally upgraded my son to a 20” mountain bike. I want to get back into recording just to give a fun factor for the kiddo. Thanks
😂 Great video.
I was really sad earlier this year when I realized my 5yr old daughter is too big for the Mac-Ride. But she had enough adventures with it that she was excited to try her 20in Polygon Relic on her own, just need some stronger legs haha
How hard can I jump my new Banshee Paradox V3, is the frame pretty strong?
Very nice. Different view point with little dusty giving her view of what she was seeing and experiencing was great! I love that it's a family affair. We try to do the same on our woodworking channel and our newest biking channel Lincoln. fam.mtb . It's a blessing to be able to have the responsibility of raising up these kiddos !