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Learning To Ride A Motorcycle

Filed in archive Learning , Motorcycle , Off-Road , Videos by Matt on March 15, 2007




This is a short video, but shows a lot about the progress of my oldest son's riding ability. First a quick bit of history. My oldest son Cz is 4. He's been riding his bicycle without training wheels ever since he was 3-1/2. He's crashed it a couple of times, but nothing too serious. His cousins were a big help in motivating him to ride. He broke the training wheels, and I never fixed them, so if he was to ride, it was to be without them.

His cousins also gave him an electric motorcyclelinks over a year ago. After a couple failed attempts to ride it, it sat for a while. He was still aware of it, and knew some day he'd ride it. He even practiced towing it around in a trailer on his quad.

Once Cz got comfortable riding his bicycle without training wheels, and after spending more and more time with the cousins riding their motorcycles in the back yard, he got more ambitious about riding it. He talked about it often but never did.

Then one day, he told me, very matter-of-factly, that he was "going to ride my motorcycle today". I've heard similar things before, but this was different, and sure enough, he rode it. I forget exactly when he started, but only a few months later, we were at his friends house breaking in the motor of my new Raptor, and we took Cz's motorcycle with us.

It didn't take long for him to start taking it over this jump. Well, ok, it's a bump. Not much bigger than a speed bump. But when you're 4, it's like a huge jump, and just as exciting as anything he'll ever do. (He still talks about it) He was so proud of himself. But not as proud as I am.


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