Drew Good
05-29-2011, 07:28 PM
Hey Gang,
So this will be a long story but as a parent you will most likely know what I am thinking right now....lol
So to fully understand it you need to know a little of my background, I have never been a stick and ball type of sports fan. While I do love football and boxing my true passion has always been motocross/supercross racing. My first bike came at the age of 6 and I have been hooked since and raced from 1987 thru 2002. The only reason I stopped racing was I was involved in a crash at the Canadian National in 2002 that destroyed my knee and force me to quit. I had my fair share of injuries over the years and feel the effects of them today but do not regret it one bit. Racing was my dream and I lived it fully until I could not do it anymore, racing defined who I was as a child/young adult.
Ever since my wife told me she was pregnant I hoped for a boy so that he and I could go racing, I hoped that he would want to follow in dad's footsteps. Last year when he was 3.5 years old I bought him his first bike, a Honda CRF 50. While it is not a race bike it is a great bike for him to learn on and is indestructable. Kids are eligible to race once they turn 4 but I had no intentions of him racing until he was ready in a few years.
Last year he rode it around with training wheels from July till September and then asked to take them off. He rode it once and crashed, that was the end of the bike for 2010 and it got put away until yesterday when he asked to get it out. Well he rode it for 3 or 4 laps around the back yard and did ok so today we decided to take him out to the farm so he can "stretch his legs" out......
Well today I was amazed at what he showed me, he went from putting around our back yard yesterday to wide open throttle today and laughing the whole time!! At one point he was a little out of control and heading for a fence post so he purposly dumped the bike instead of risking the chance of hitting the pole. Scared the living shit out of me but still proud of this choice to dump it instead of hitting the pole.
I gotta say the kids got skill but now it has me wondering if I could live thru him racing, I never worried about me getting injured as I knew it was part of the deal but to sit back and watch my son now......... whole different story.
And he is already asking to race...
So this will be a long story but as a parent you will most likely know what I am thinking right now....lol
So to fully understand it you need to know a little of my background, I have never been a stick and ball type of sports fan. While I do love football and boxing my true passion has always been motocross/supercross racing. My first bike came at the age of 6 and I have been hooked since and raced from 1987 thru 2002. The only reason I stopped racing was I was involved in a crash at the Canadian National in 2002 that destroyed my knee and force me to quit. I had my fair share of injuries over the years and feel the effects of them today but do not regret it one bit. Racing was my dream and I lived it fully until I could not do it anymore, racing defined who I was as a child/young adult.
Ever since my wife told me she was pregnant I hoped for a boy so that he and I could go racing, I hoped that he would want to follow in dad's footsteps. Last year when he was 3.5 years old I bought him his first bike, a Honda CRF 50. While it is not a race bike it is a great bike for him to learn on and is indestructable. Kids are eligible to race once they turn 4 but I had no intentions of him racing until he was ready in a few years.
Last year he rode it around with training wheels from July till September and then asked to take them off. He rode it once and crashed, that was the end of the bike for 2010 and it got put away until yesterday when he asked to get it out. Well he rode it for 3 or 4 laps around the back yard and did ok so today we decided to take him out to the farm so he can "stretch his legs" out......
Well today I was amazed at what he showed me, he went from putting around our back yard yesterday to wide open throttle today and laughing the whole time!! At one point he was a little out of control and heading for a fence post so he purposly dumped the bike instead of risking the chance of hitting the pole. Scared the living shit out of me but still proud of this choice to dump it instead of hitting the pole.
I gotta say the kids got skill but now it has me wondering if I could live thru him racing, I never worried about me getting injured as I knew it was part of the deal but to sit back and watch my son now......... whole different story.
And he is already asking to race...