Ryan from California.  My name is Ryan and I’m 13 years old. My favorite sports are running and biking. I enter a lot of local races and I do pretty well. I decided to buy a mountain bike so that I could enter in duathalons. That’s where you run and bike in the same race. We have a lot of cool trails here. My bike cost $350. I saved for 5 months 4 days using my paper route money ($45/month) and some other money I had from helping my mom teach summer math camps. I LOVE my bike!

Nathan from California.   Hey, my name is Nathan and I'm 15.  I'm an avid golfer and when I noticed that my clubs were getting too small I wanted to buy a set of irons ($875) that I would be able to use throughout my high school years.  I already had about $450 from my paper route so I needed to save $200 because I sold my old set for $225.  I worked for my neighbor doing back-breaking yard work.  I now have the irons and am always getting compliments about how nice they are.