June 2010

I have been fascinated w/ motorcycles since i was a young kid.I wanted 1 so badly i told my parents i’ll get 1 when i became old enough & they just smiled. Now i’m 18, have a job & saved enough money to buy myself one…but they wouldn’t allow me to have one. I took The MSF coarse,Passed it w/ flying colors, bought all my safety gear(helmet boots Gloves & Jacket) in advance. They told me that this day will come & they’re afraid that i might get hurt or even killed. Dad won’t talk to me; Mom was crying. They even offered to co-sign a brand new car, but i told them that i’m set on the bike.And i told them that i’m a safe& responsible rider(even showed them my gear+ my MSF test Results) but they still wouldn’t budge.Even my best buddies dropped by to educate them about riding safety; but to no avail.Why are my parents so not fair about this? Please help…I don’t know what to do, i never wanted a car or any 4 wheeled vehicle for that matter…just a motorcycle. Thank You & God Bless…

Hmmm quite the "Canundrum" that many of us faced growing up ! I bought a bike when I was 26 yrs old, my parents REALLY did NOT want me to have the bike, my father was a Dr in the E.R. and was really against it. I bought the bike, I had an apt. my parents said "Leave the Bike at the house" I did for a week or two, one day I went there and it was gone, my father GAVE it away ! He told me he loved me too much to watch me get "KILLED". You have to understand that safe riding is no gaurantee, most bike riders are killed by someone else not paying attention in a car. I bought a Mustang GT, a few years ago, I worked it up "SICK", super charger, stroker motor, 150 lbs shot of "NOX" etc. "10 second machine". I would take it out at 3 am for some "FUN", one night I was tooling along "Speeding", and two unmarked cop cars came out of no-where on my azz, (rollers lit up) I pulled over, and they raced past me in a real big hurry, about a mile down the road I saw bike hardware splattered all over the road, and that "CREEPY" feeling of "Oh my God It’s a BIKE Accident", to see the body bag, and the bike in a jumbled knot, a young female driver crying and saying "I did’nt even see him", was a very "SOBERING" moment, i’m a father now, and although I was angry at what my parents did, I realized they saved my life. I still remember my father saying "I don’t care if you’re 26 yrs old, have a job, and and apt., it’s MY JOB to make sure that you don’t get "KILLED", you can be as mad at me as you like, someday you’ll be a "FATHER" and understand"….Go for the car kid, you’ll never get that offer again ! TAKE IT !

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