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If you think having, raising and educating your kids and then teaching them to drive is stressful wait till you go with them on their first journey onto the streets on a motorbike, my grey hair got even greyer as baby daughter took her first tentative ride around the streets of Kurnell
Anyone who heard the REX yesterday must have thought I had installed a pit lane speed limiter on it as it popped it's way around Kurnell at 40kph
Thanks to Ben (Dmonkey) for loaning his bike

Nice going mate. I did it the easy way and sent Chris out on a track day for his first road ride. All I had to worry about was whether the bike finished in one piece.

nah your biggest worry Glenno is whether Chris was going to smoke your on his first day on a roadie. :

Blurr wrote:nah your biggest worry Glenno is whether Chris was going to smoke your on his first day on a roadie. :

hasn't that day already come and gone ???

Nice work Rooster - I also shat a bit when my young bloke took his first tentative ride around the backyard......but he did OK for a 7 year old !!

Not looking forward at all to 'proper' licence time though.......

Thanks for the heads up - Tyler is already eyeing off the 500 and he's not due till Feb next year. Might have to look at the track day option

Blurr wrote:nah your biggest worry Glenno is whether Chris was going to smoke your on his first day on a roadie. :

That wasn't so much a worry as an inevitable outcome....

waynemorgan wrote:Thanks for the heads up - Tyler is already eyeing off the 500 and he's not due till Feb next year. Might have to look at the track day option

Bloody hell, is Tyler coming up for 17? He looks so young!

I got my young bloke a chookie, he'll be 17 around christmas time and happily has shown no interest in riding on the road!

Matt

matchan wrote:

waynemorgan wrote:Thanks for the heads up - Tyler is already eyeing off the 500 and he's not due till Feb next year. Might have to look at the track day option

Bloody hell, is Tyler coming up for 17? He looks so young!

Thats cause your getting old Matt Just in case you'd forgotten

Dont they grow up fast..Our 19yo is coming off his p's to full in may..and he's got his eye on a zx6r..He's been off a few times but no real damage done. Good luck rooster.

Good luck Rooster... The late nights worrying start now..... but that's what us dad's do...

You could lock your kids up in chains or cotton wool until they are 18 then release them, but then they would have no idea.... So have faith in your values you have passed on, and if shit happens well, worry about it then, in the meantime keep them close and keep educating them.... You can't live their life for them, just be ready to pick up the pieces if or when they stuff up

fireyrob wrote: Thats cause your getting old Matt Just in case you'd forgotten

get a big woolly one up ya, ya young whippersnapper

This worries me already....sure i have another 15 years before he is on the road, but he is already asking me for to put on onboard videos on youtube while he sits on my lap and uses my thumbs as grips and pretends to go around corners...

It always pulls on the heartstrings when the little chicklets start spreading their wings, doesn't it...

My wordy, lordy yes, it does. Ah, the little scallywags will have their fun no matter how much it makes us squirm.
Don't worry - the lad and ladettes will be fine

No kids for us, at least not yet. The only one in our lives is our neice, and fortunately we can give her back if she gets stinky or unruly

My oldest (18) isn't overly interested in getting his bike licence or a bike, although he does have an old XL trailbike that he rides around at his mothers house. The youngest (4) is keen to get a bike like daddy's when he is bigger He even demonstrates how daddy crashed his bike on his little kick along bike