WTF is wrong with me??? As if my life wasn't busy and complicated enough. I was just starting to get caught back up on money...but I just couldn't say no.
Ever since I got word that I was going to have a son 7.5 years ago I had dirt bike plans for him. We did his first bedroom with dirt bike wallpaper, the first clothes he ever wore was a Travis Pastrana sleeper, and he and I used to sit on the couch and watch motocross together. Ever since he turned 4 I asked if he wanted a dirt bike and he always said no. I was sooo bummed, heck he didn't even want to ride a bicycle.
Then, on Sept 13th I took the family to watch my friend's race in a Hare Scramble. After the race, it turns out that John's 5yo son was going to race in his first race on his KTM 50 so we stayed to cheer him on. After about 22.5 seconds Cody tells me and Heather, "I don't want to play soccer anymore, I want to race motorcycles". I NEVER saw that one coming!!
So I tell him, if you want to race next month you need to learn to ride your bike with no training wheels before you can ride a dirt bike. He was a bit disappointed but agreed to do it. We got home from the races and he immediately had us remove the training wheels and within about 30 minutes he was riding on his own.
So that Tuesday I found a 2003 KTM 50 SX Pro Junior. Most of the gear we had saved from when Tyler was riding. Including the Brian Deegan spiked roost protector.
:lol:
The following Saturday I took him out to John's house and after 2 hours, a clutch adjustment, and a couple crashes he was riding around the practice track on his own.
That Sunday we went back out to John's and worked on speed, throttle control, and braking.
When we had to leave he said "I don't want to go back to school, I just want to stay at John's and ride my motorcycle everyday". :lol:
So in 1 week he went from a bike with training wheels to riding a motorcycle over the whoops. :shock:
Last weekend we took him out to the VDR track to practice. He crashed pretty bad on a long downhill corner because he didn't really know what to do but he got right back on. I didn't realize the corner was on such a steep downhill. For the next few laps I would wait at that corner and then run along side of him telling him "use your brakes just a little bit" and he got much better.
I'm so proud I can't stand it. His first race will be Oct 18th so in order to help him be ready we are going to the track again this weekend. I'll have to miss the first RC Crawling comp of the season, but Cody has never been so focused as he is on the goal of racing and winning his first trophy so I've got to do all I can to help him achieve his goal.
I'll keep you all posted.
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Ever since I got word that I was going to have a son 7.5 years ago I had dirt bike plans for him. We did his first bedroom with dirt bike wallpaper, the first clothes he ever wore was a Travis Pastrana sleeper, and he and I used to sit on the couch and watch motocross together. Ever since he turned 4 I asked if he wanted a dirt bike and he always said no. I was sooo bummed, heck he didn't even want to ride a bicycle.
Then, on Sept 13th I took the family to watch my friend's race in a Hare Scramble. After the race, it turns out that John's 5yo son was going to race in his first race on his KTM 50 so we stayed to cheer him on. After about 22.5 seconds Cody tells me and Heather, "I don't want to play soccer anymore, I want to race motorcycles". I NEVER saw that one coming!!
So I tell him, if you want to race next month you need to learn to ride your bike with no training wheels before you can ride a dirt bike. He was a bit disappointed but agreed to do it. We got home from the races and he immediately had us remove the training wheels and within about 30 minutes he was riding on his own.
So that Tuesday I found a 2003 KTM 50 SX Pro Junior. Most of the gear we had saved from when Tyler was riding. Including the Brian Deegan spiked roost protector.
:lol:The following Saturday I took him out to John's house and after 2 hours, a clutch adjustment, and a couple crashes he was riding around the practice track on his own.
That Sunday we went back out to John's and worked on speed, throttle control, and braking.
When we had to leave he said "I don't want to go back to school, I just want to stay at John's and ride my motorcycle everyday". :lol:
So in 1 week he went from a bike with training wheels to riding a motorcycle over the whoops. :shock:
Last weekend we took him out to the VDR track to practice. He crashed pretty bad on a long downhill corner because he didn't really know what to do but he got right back on. I didn't realize the corner was on such a steep downhill. For the next few laps I would wait at that corner and then run along side of him telling him "use your brakes just a little bit" and he got much better.
I'm so proud I can't stand it. His first race will be Oct 18th so in order to help him be ready we are going to the track again this weekend. I'll have to miss the first RC Crawling comp of the season, but Cody has never been so focused as he is on the goal of racing and winning his first trophy so I've got to do all I can to help him achieve his goal.
I'll keep you all posted.
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