Looking at this bike, barring it having flat tires, I cannot imagine a 13 year old boy walking to see friends rather than taking this bike (I see 18 year olds riding this size bike) unless he never rode bikes at all. The bike would get him there faster. I should think Dylan would have called his friend from the land line to tell him he was coming over.http://www.koat.com/news/Rallies-ma...hday/-/9154100/18427994/-/4kccmj/-/index.html
Bike at about 1:15 into the video.
As an aside, I asked my 13 year old flaky as all get out son what he would do if he was planning on visiting his friends at 6:30 am and I tried to wake him up to take him and he was too tired to get up. His response was "That would never happen. If I hadn't seen my friends in a while, I would get up, no matter how tired I was."
So I asked him, what if you didn't really understand me when I was talking to you, and fell back asleep. You wake up and I am gone, what would you do? "Call my friends!"
Would you be concerned that I was gone? "Not really, you guys leave me home all the time."
Would you go walk over to see them (I didn't say how far) "Not until I had called them to see if they were still there and called YOU to see where you were! Maybe I could get a ride."
Might you have gone and forgotten to leave me a note? "If my friends came and got me, THAT could happen. But I'd call and at least leave a message later."
What if you didn't want to be at the place you were at, what if someone MADE you go there, would your answers change? "That depends on how much I didn't want to be there. Yeah, if I really didn't want to be there, I'd just do whatever I wanted and wouldn't care what anyone else thought."
So take that as an input from a 13 year old that can't remember his jacket, leaves a sock under the edge of the couch almost every night, and walks 6 miles at a shot without batting an eye. I think his last statement is very telling.