My Boy Having a Blast on Christmas Morning

[parallel]

I promised him Santa would bring him a "motorcycle" if he learned to ride his bike. He learned so...

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[LostInTexas]

Bet he was excited!

[Buelligan]

Oh thats COOL , I had a BIG WHELL when I was a kid.

[7.62guy]

Oh thats COOL , I had a BIG WHELL when I was a kid.

careful now you'll give away your age.:rolleyes:

[jfowl31]

I'm only 26 and we had multiple Big Wheels...

[holescreek]

When I was his age we were still trying to figure out how to make wheels out of rocks.

[Buelligan]

762guy, 48 is not bad ,but 28 was way better. LOL:rockon:

[Smokehouse69]

When I was his age we were still trying to figure out how to make wheels out of rocks.

You had rocks???? :eek: All we had was dirt and sticks! :lolgreen:

[bladeworks123]

You had rocks???? :eek: All we had was dirt and sticks! :lolgreen:

Our herd had a big wheel, it was carved out of ice, and had wooly mammoth tusk handlebars.... you always wanted to make sure your tyranasaurus skin was tucked under you good before you sat on it. That's where the term "flaps down" came from......:eek:

[bladeworks123]

That's really cool Parallel,,,, but just so you know, that leads to this in about 12 years....

[rep30cal]

Aaahhh, the good ol days. I bought the oldest one of the Jeeps way back when and he took his little brother a ride and about every 30-40 feet he would stop, get out and look under the hood, LOL. I told him "hey boy that ain't no Ford, it'll go all the way around the yard". I never did find out what was so interesting in there that he kept stopping.

[Allwater]

Great pics!

So.... has he started diggin' around behind the shed looking for plywood and cinder blocks yet? No??? Ahhh, give it a couple years... it's just a matter of time...

Also - do you have any idea what kind of sound will come out of your wife when she looks out the front window and sees her "baby" about 3' off the ground? I'd start preparing yourself now... hahaha

Funny - my dad still gets mad when I talk about the ramps and other obstacles I made in the driveway - not 'cause I'd hurt myself, but the years it took off dear 'ol Mom! - Lot's of scrapes and bruises, but no broken bones (some just say that means I wasn't trying hard enough)

[Player]

BUY HIM A FRIKIN HELMET
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[bladeworks123]

Henry is absolutley right, and a shining bloody example,,,(nice job Henry) get them started out young believing that wearing a helmet is cool. I've tried telling mine that if God would have intended the thing to fly it would have come with either wings or a rotor. It's 50 percent skill and 50 percent luck once it's airborn....and only 50 percent of that is under your control.

[holescreek]

My wife and I are avid riders. We have a Bombardier Max HT with a front and rear seat and ride together. Last May on the easiest section of the easiest trail we'd ever ridden on we crossed an above ground root which caused the steering to pull left and jammed her thumb into the throttle. Before I could knock her hand off of it we went full speed up a 6' embankment and hit a tree. She was thrown off about 12' and came out relatively unscathed. I was on the back and stayed on as that big monster rolled over eventually on my legs. I remember my head hitting the path 6' below where we'd hit the tree with a sickening thunk. When I got my wits about me I took inventory and realized that I couldn't move my legs, about the time horrible thoughts started creeping in I realized the quad was on top of them. I got pretty banged up and cracked a helmet. When I went back to the store to get another helmet they asked me what kind I wanted. I said I'd take the same thing I'd just had because I knew it worked. You don't have to be doing anything dangerous for bad things to happen.

[bladeworks123]

........You don't have to be doing anything dangerous for bad things to happen.

I have replaced several busted up helmets over the years, don't know how much it cost me but I know it was far cheaper than the amount of money I might have got to spend on hospital bills. I've already been uglied up a time or two, added to what the good lord gave me to start with.. (It wasn't as permanent as in Henry's case), I sure don't need it to get worse...:icon_biggrin:

[jfowl31]

I need to get a helmets big time... Right now, my 4wheeler is only being used to transport me back and forth to my deer blind, but my nieces and nephews love to ride on it with me. I never even thought about needing helmets because it was always me driving it... I don't want that crap on my conscience.... looks like I'll be investing in some good helmets for this summer.

First I gotta get it running right again. I have to pull start it now because the starter solenoid is clicking, and it fouls spark plugs like crazy... so I'll pay a friend to give it a tuneup and replace the solenoid I guess... then I need to park it in the garage.

[parallel]

Good looking out on the helmet suggestions y'all. I have no idea why it never crossed our minds (particularly Mrs Parallel, as she is normally safe to the point of ridiculousness). I'll be getting a helmet first thing in the morning. I have this thing set up right now to only do 2 1/2 MPH, but he has already asked to be allowed to go faster. I'll tell him that I'll hook up the "turbo" that will allow it to go 5 MPH so long as he wears the helmet.

[Smokehouse69]

Dayum Henry! Your facial wounds look very similar to ones I suffered when I was 14. My motorbike wasn't running so a friend took me to the Honda shop for some parts on the back of his bike. On the way back he started down a street with some huge humps... and the seat came off... I grabbed the tail light on my way off the back... I actually skied on the asphalt for a few feet right before I went face first into it.
Of course no helmet, back in those days nobody wore helmets.. I was very, very, lucky and only suffered a mild concussion along a couple cracked teeth, two black eyes, broken nose and of course raw skin from forehead to chin and that was just my face. My hands, elbows, chest and knees wore covered in road rash.
Of course my mother made me go to school the next day.

[7.62guy]

762guy, 48 is not bad ,but 28 was way better. LOL:rockon:

yeah, know what you mean. 58 is not so bad,but i did feel better at 48.