Also from the childs perspective
My father never encouraged me to ride despite me being around bikes since before I was born. All the men on both sides of my family are keen on motorcycling and some of the women too, but none of them bought me a bike or encouraged me in any way which effectively meant that I spent about from birth to the age of 26 I spent roughly 20 minutes in control of a motorcycle. This wasn't because I didn't want to, it was just that I hadn't been given the opportunity and I was too polite to ask.
Now I'm 27 going on 28 and I've been riding for 18 months in which I've notched up probably over 10,000 miles mostly around London and including one overland to Italy. The wallpaper on my PC is my bike at the top of the Passo Del Stelvio. I wish that someone had put me on a bike when I was younger as now my life revolves around bikes. These are experiences I wish I had earlier instead of wasting my life worrying about unimportant crap. Give the lad a bike goddammit!
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"On that? You're nuts!" - My cousin's boyfriend
Current Bikes - Kawasaki KLE500 '05 (May 06)
Previous Bikes - Hyosung GF125 (Oct 05 to May 06)
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