Mark R.
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I agree with Snakebitten. Even if you paid full price, the fact that you will be riding with your son is about 1000 times more important than a good deal. That good deal only makes it that much sweeter. Get it ASAP, IMHO
Am I crazy? Help me quiet the voices!
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Bringing it home Saturday guys. Thanks for all the sage advice. Have a great season all!
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Congrats.
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That white one is a great looking Tenere.
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That white one is a great looking Tenere.
Sounds like a great deal and the white has always been a GREAT looker! Congratulations
And riding with your kids is a life experience. I hope you don't mind my adding something about getting the kids to buy-in on OUR dreams. Sounds like you probably already know this, but I'll throw it out for the next person. I always am the "do-er" and helper, so I had to learn the hard way about backing off and letting others do for themselves.
I used to buy and sell airplanes, so the kids always had one available and thought airplanes were cool when they were in grade school. The oldest son was hard-headed and by 13 had other passions. My daughter liked to fly together but again, no interest. When my youngest son was in his mid-teens, he got into mountain biking, mountain biking, and mountain biking. Meanwhile and wanting him to join in my dream of flying together, I went through a couple of trainers, trying to coax him into flying lessons by having a plane available. He knew the local instructor well and I could not have made it easier. Again, no interest. We did a 9 hour trip to/from Florida and he took the controls for maybe 5 minutes. No interest. Like other stuff, if I gave it to him or the two older kids, he got bored and lost interest. But he would work at the bike store selling and wrenching and his mountain bike was always top-notch.
So when he asked about learning to ride on my old 1990 KLR, I wanted to throw it at him. Instead we made it clear that he could borrow the old beater any time but to get his buy-in, he FIRST had to pay for lessons from a motor officer I knew, and second was that he had to fix what he broke. The officer was also an MSF instructor and only charged the kid $100. Tim had a ball "learning from a cop."
He later wanted a 650 WeeStrom. It would have been easy financially to pick one up for him and I absolutely wanted him as my riding partner. Instead, I became his bank, he found a bike with a lot of road rash, we trailered it home and fixed it up together, and only once did I have to take his keys for not making payments. When he wanted to move to a 1000Strom a bit under 3 years ago, we did the same thing, but he did most of the work. That 2003 now has something like 45,000 miles, he finished college on it, has taken countless girls for rides, and we rode around the country for a month together.
He is now 24 & on his own, living 100 miles away near Philly, drooling over new KTM 1190s, and 2 nights ago we were on the phone. He said that with HIS fixing the Strom up from how HE found it, how much HE and the Strom have gone through TOGETHER, and with how little HE could get out of it, a new bike may come but HE can't see selling the Strom.
Anyway, thanks for letting me go off on this tangent and hopefully somebody else can get something out of it.
And riding with your kids is a life experience. I hope you don't mind my adding something about getting the kids to buy-in on OUR dreams. Sounds like you probably already know this, but I'll throw it out for the next person. I always am the "do-er" and helper, so I had to learn the hard way about backing off and letting others do for themselves.
I used to buy and sell airplanes, so the kids always had one available and thought airplanes were cool when they were in grade school. The oldest son was hard-headed and by 13 had other passions. My daughter liked to fly together but again, no interest. When my youngest son was in his mid-teens, he got into mountain biking, mountain biking, and mountain biking. Meanwhile and wanting him to join in my dream of flying together, I went through a couple of trainers, trying to coax him into flying lessons by having a plane available. He knew the local instructor well and I could not have made it easier. Again, no interest. We did a 9 hour trip to/from Florida and he took the controls for maybe 5 minutes. No interest. Like other stuff, if I gave it to him or the two older kids, he got bored and lost interest. But he would work at the bike store selling and wrenching and his mountain bike was always top-notch.
So when he asked about learning to ride on my old 1990 KLR, I wanted to throw it at him. Instead we made it clear that he could borrow the old beater any time but to get his buy-in, he FIRST had to pay for lessons from a motor officer I knew, and second was that he had to fix what he broke. The officer was also an MSF instructor and only charged the kid $100. Tim had a ball "learning from a cop."
He later wanted a 650 WeeStrom. It would have been easy financially to pick one up for him and I absolutely wanted him as my riding partner. Instead, I became his bank, he found a bike with a lot of road rash, we trailered it home and fixed it up together, and only once did I have to take his keys for not making payments. When he wanted to move to a 1000Strom a bit under 3 years ago, we did the same thing, but he did most of the work. That 2003 now has something like 45,000 miles, he finished college on it, has taken countless girls for rides, and we rode around the country for a month together.
He is now 24 & on his own, living 100 miles away near Philly, drooling over new KTM 1190s, and 2 nights ago we were on the phone. He said that with HIS fixing the Strom up from how HE found it, how much HE and the Strom have gone through TOGETHER, and with how little HE could get out of it, a new bike may come but HE can't see selling the Strom.
Anyway, thanks for letting me go off on this tangent and hopefully somebody else can get something out of it.
Checkswrecks,
I totally 100% agree with your premise!
I made every single mistake in the book on this subject. I meant well, nobody can argue otherwise. But the results proved I was wasting my efforts.
Excellent advice. Where was this post 8 years ago? Lol
I totally 100% agree with your premise!
I made every single mistake in the book on this subject. I meant well, nobody can argue otherwise. But the results proved I was wasting my efforts.
Excellent advice. Where was this post 8 years ago? Lol
TCAdventure
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Checswrecks,
Agreed,
1) Our kids have their own passions and interests.
2) No matter how badly we want them to share ours; it isn't going to happen unless they want it to.
3) Even if we can pay the way for them to share our interest that's not always the best thing to do.
Excellent insight. I appreciate the counter-point.
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Agreed,
1) Our kids have their own passions and interests.
2) No matter how badly we want them to share ours; it isn't going to happen unless they want it to.
3) Even if we can pay the way for them to share our interest that's not always the best thing to do.
Excellent insight. I appreciate the counter-point.
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Don't misunderstand me though TCadventure. Even if I agree with the recent posted comments, that does not mean I think it is a mistake to fund a second bike for someone to share my riding when they desire to. It would be parked right there with my other bike(s) and ready to be ridden. That's much different than buying a bike for someone else. Which may or may not be adequately appreciated.
I STILL long for the day one of my boys says "hey dad, whatta I gotta do to go with you sometime on one of your motorcycle trips?"
It'd be worth whatever it cost me!
I STILL long for the day one of my boys says "hey dad, whatta I gotta do to go with you sometime on one of your motorcycle trips?"
It'd be worth whatever it cost me!
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Took my daughter both flying and riding for years. She enjoyed the ATV stuff for a while, then lost interest. I've been okay with that.
For Christmas she gave me a coupon for a motorcycle ride and lunch with dad. That works for me. I plan to cash that in this summer. It's taped right here on my computer screen so I don't lose it.
For Christmas she gave me a coupon for a motorcycle ride and lunch with dad. That works for me. I plan to cash that in this summer. It's taped right here on my computer screen so I don't lose it.
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Checkswrecks said:
That's a good looking pari of "look-alikes". Jeeze …. you guys related or something ??/ ::025:: Have fun. R