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Well, it was a beautiful evening when I got home from work today. Beth and the girls had plans for the evening, leaving me and Daniel to find something to do. Not long ago he had me check to see if his feet reached the foot pegs on my 1200 GS. That was my rule, no riding until the feet reach the pegs. Sarah has been riding with me for about a year and a half and it has been driving Daniel nuts that he hasn't been able to ride. Well... they reached...
Of course he wanted to go riding that instant. But, between work, rain, other time commitments, etc,... we just haven't been able to make it happen, until tonight. I got him to finish up some school work then popped it on him. He was so excited that he was geared up and ready to go before I even started getting the bike out of the garage and getting my own gear situated
We went over the rules of the ride to make sure he knew what I expected of him and what he could expect from me. With that, we were off! Just across FM 980 from our subdivision is another subdivision that has real smooth roads, some nice curves, and a lot of big culdesacs. That is where I took Sarah for her first ride so she could get used to the feel and motion of the bike at low speeds before hitting the faster roads. After doing tight turn arounds in all the culdesacs and some relatively fast (40mph) sweepers, we stopped. Daniel was having a blast and was ready for more! He had been doing a great job of keeping his body properly positioned and bracing himself for stops as I showed him.
So I decided to take him for a short ride on the FMs in the area. We ran up FM 980 to FM 3478, over to FM 230 and then into Trinity. When I was first learning to ride on the street back in 1999, those were the roads that I rode over and over until I felt really comfortable on the bike. They are usually low traffic, fun and sweeping, and have nice scenery. Today was just the same. We ran them around 70mph Daniel absolutely loved it. He had no fear whatsoever. We ran back down US 190 from Trinity to FM 980 at Riverside and then cruised back home, at total of about 43 miles.
He was barely off the bike before he was asking when we could go riding again He asked me quite a few times the remainder of the evening... I may have created a monster!
Of course he wanted to go riding that instant. But, between work, rain, other time commitments, etc,... we just haven't been able to make it happen, until tonight. I got him to finish up some school work then popped it on him. He was so excited that he was geared up and ready to go before I even started getting the bike out of the garage and getting my own gear situated
We went over the rules of the ride to make sure he knew what I expected of him and what he could expect from me. With that, we were off! Just across FM 980 from our subdivision is another subdivision that has real smooth roads, some nice curves, and a lot of big culdesacs. That is where I took Sarah for her first ride so she could get used to the feel and motion of the bike at low speeds before hitting the faster roads. After doing tight turn arounds in all the culdesacs and some relatively fast (40mph) sweepers, we stopped. Daniel was having a blast and was ready for more! He had been doing a great job of keeping his body properly positioned and bracing himself for stops as I showed him.
So I decided to take him for a short ride on the FMs in the area. We ran up FM 980 to FM 3478, over to FM 230 and then into Trinity. When I was first learning to ride on the street back in 1999, those were the roads that I rode over and over until I felt really comfortable on the bike. They are usually low traffic, fun and sweeping, and have nice scenery. Today was just the same. We ran them around 70mph Daniel absolutely loved it. He had no fear whatsoever. We ran back down US 190 from Trinity to FM 980 at Riverside and then cruised back home, at total of about 43 miles.
He was barely off the bike before he was asking when we could go riding again He asked me quite a few times the remainder of the evening... I may have created a monster!