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Casey's Bike
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 7:44 pm
by aardvark
The lad recently turned 4. I spent the last month or two completely rebuilding a PW50 I had bought for him. In the lead up to his birthday I asked him what colour he wanted, to which he replied "Red, like Casey Stoner". I wanted to buy blue plastics, but no amount of negotiating could get him to agree to blue.
Last week I took him out to a mates farm. After some quick instruction on how to go and stop, I got him to practice riding around in circles whilst I ran around after him. The circles lasted about a minute. Not being the sprite young thing I used to be, I gave up when he decided that weaving in and out of trees was more his thing.
I may be biased, but the little bugger has more natural talent than his Dad ever had. He spent so long riding the bike around that he complained he was "sore everywhere" the next day.
Bought a PW80 for him yesterday.... the price was too good to refuse. That'll sit in the shed until he's old enough.
Re: Casey's Bike
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 7:48 pm
by Blurr
You can see his smile through the helmet
Nice
Re: Casey's Bike
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 7:50 pm
by seiko1
Keep it in my shed Jase....plenty of room still
Re: Casey's Bike
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 7:57 pm
by aardvark
seiko1 wrote:Keep it in my shed Jase....plenty of room still
Hahaha... I might need to. Mine is getting a bit full!
I have to buy some new forks for the PW50. I decided the week before I gave it to him to pull them apart and make sure the springs were ok. As it turns out, someone has removed them at some stage in the past. Makes for a bumpy ride.
Re: Casey's Bike
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 8:28 pm
by hoffy
suspension is overated !
Re: Casey's Bike
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 8:40 pm
by tim
top work Aardy, it turned out great, best colour scheme too!
Re: Casey's Bike
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 9:33 pm
by funky
Hey Ardy that's come up a treat
I'm sure he loves it
Re: Casey's Bike
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 10:18 pm
by waynemorgan
Well done Ardy - can see his smile beaming through!
Re: Casey's Bike
Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 6:37 am
by swearbear9r
only way is to start them young lol............... lucky fella
Re: Casey's Bike
Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 6:48 am
by Stace
Awesome mate. The little girl came up a treat.
Re: Casey's Bike
Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 8:09 am
by MickLC
Nice work Jase.....now get to work on the LC and don't use that bluetack in the background of the first picture!
Re: Casey's Bike
Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 8:32 am
by dutchy
Looks the goods, and your obviously proud as punch (so you should be). When is he getting entered into his first race??
Re: Casey's Bike
Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 2:00 pm
by Gosling1
that's excellent Jase - he will be kickin' yo ass in no time at all................
Re: Casey's Bike
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 4:55 pm
by aardvark
MickLC wrote:Nice work Jase.....now get to work on the LC and don't use that bluetack in the background of the first picture!
I was going to paint the bluetack black!
dutchy wrote:When is he getting entered into his first race??
Mate, I can't afford a 50cc KTM that all the other kids race, so he'll be waiting if he thinks he's going down that path.
Re: Casey's Bike
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 5:41 pm
by GPZ_Jim
excellent job with the rebuild.. looks great