Each year, the community holds a large ceremony in which children celebrate moving onto the next step of their adolescence toward becoming an independent adult. At the annual ceremonies, each age group receives a particular object that represents their maturity, growth, and independence.

At the December Ceremony, the Nines receive their own bicycle. During the ceremony, each nine-year-old receives a bicycle as a symbol of their independence, and the majority of the adolescents ride their bicycles home the very same day. Bicycles not only enable adolescents to travel freely throughout the community, but they also represent independence, freedom, and responsibility.

Jonas mentions that although the rules are very strict in his community, the laws prohibiting children under the age of nine from riding bicycles are not enforced, which allows older siblings to teach their younger siblings how to ride a bike before the Ceremony of Nine.