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Post by JerryScript on Mar 12, 2015 16:44:06 GMT -5
This kid has the same look on his face I get when riding, guess I'm going thru my second childhood!  |
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Post by gift on Mar 12, 2015 16:51:29 GMT -5
How old is him? He is so cute.
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Post by wheelbender6 on Mar 12, 2015 19:06:55 GMT -5
He already has great taste in scooters.
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Post by JerryScript on Mar 13, 2015 2:50:21 GMT -5
How old is him? He is so cute. I think the article said 18 months, and already poppin wheelies! Note- of course this was photoshopped, in case anyone gets all grumpy about safety! |
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Post by mopojo on Mar 13, 2015 7:03:51 GMT -5
Even got a little burn-out goin' on there. lol
Cute and fun. Thanks
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Post by gift on Mar 13, 2015 10:20:13 GMT -5
I thought I beated him riding a motorcycle with my dad since 2 but he is younger and riding alone...hahaha:p
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Post by oldchopperguy on Mar 13, 2015 18:43:48 GMT -5
THAT cool graphic brings back some GREAT memories of a full half-century ago... I was in school, and had just finished my full-house Harley chopper. I was totally "in lust" with a teensy fellow student (yes, a GIRL) who was also a Christian missionary. At 4' 6" and 76 pounds, she looked like a mini-Vana White. Absolutely knocked the needle off the "cute meter".
As strange a pair as we were, she went nuts over my chopper. We went for a midnight ride in downtown Chicago, and ended up on a nearly deserted Lakeshore Drive. She asked if the bike was fast... OOOOHHH YYEEEAAAHHH...
She hung on and I opened up "Old Blue" I guess we went from 55 to about 120 in roughly three seconds... Gleefully, she yelled "will it go even faster?" Hang on... I opened her wide open, with a belch of flame from the shotgun pipes and smoking the rear tire...
Suddenly, I felt tiny fists beating me on the forehead, and a teensy arm nearly choking me... I turned to look, and my 76-pound object of affection was streaming out like a flag behind me, just like the little nipper in the scooter pic... LOL! She was screaming "Brother Leo... GOD SAYS THAT'S FAST ENOUGH!!!"
I closed the throttle and she nearly sailed over my head! When you have several G's acceleration on tap, you need a few pounds to plant you in the saddle... HeHeHe...
Anyway, it was just amazing that passenger could actually stream out behind me like that. Wish I had a picture of THAT!
Thanks for the memories!
Ride safe...
Leo in Texas
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Post by oldchopperguy on Mar 13, 2015 18:44:26 GMT -5
Sorry, I had a double-post here...
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Post by wheelbender6 on Mar 13, 2015 18:53:17 GMT -5
18 months old? Better wait another year before riding to Sturgis.
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Post by JerryScript on Mar 14, 2015 2:21:39 GMT -5
THAT cool graphic brings back some GREAT memories of a full half-century ago... I was in school, and had just finished my full-house Harley chopper. I was totally "in lust" with a teensy fellow student (yes, a GIRL) who was also a Christian missionary. At 4' 6" and 76 pounds, she looked like a mini-Vana White. Absolutely knocked the needle off the "cute meter". As strange a pair as we were, she went nuts over my chopper. We went for a midnight ride in downtown Chicago, and ended up on a nearly deserted Lakeshore Drive. She asked if the bike was fast... OOOOHHH YYEEEAAAHHH... She hung on and I opened up "Old Blue" I guess we went from 55 to about 120 in roughly three seconds... Gleefully, she yelled "will it go even faster?" Hang on... I opened her wide open, with a belch of flame from the shotgun pipes and smoking the rear tire... Suddenly, I felt tiny fists beating me on the forehead, and a teensy arm nearly choking me... I turned to look, and my 76-pound object of affection was streaming out like a flag behind me, just like the little nipper in the scooter pic... LOL! She was screaming "Brother Leo... GOD SAYS THAT'S FAST ENOUGH!!!" I closed the throttle and she nearly sailed over my head! When you have several G's acceleration on tap, you need a few pounds to plant you in the saddle... HeHeHe... Anyway, it was just amazing that passenger could actually stream out behind me like that. Wish I had a picture of THAT! Thanks for the memories! Ride safe... Leo in Texas I swear Leo, sometimes I wish I could just live vicariously through your life! |
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Post by SylvreKat on Mar 14, 2015 7:21:17 GMT -5
Doesn't Unca Leo tell just the bestestest stories of all!
Is she the one that ended up driving her own big-dog bike?
>'Kat
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Post by oldchopperguy on Mar 14, 2015 17:42:53 GMT -5
Doesn't Unca Leo tell just the bestestest stories of all! Is she the one that ended up driving her own big-dog bike? >'Kat Kat,
No, she (Sherri) was a missionary, and "Janice the Flying Squirrel" was ah, well, sort of the opposite type... Both were fellow students, but had very ah, shall we say "different" outlooks on life...LOL! Same size and shape, though. Within an inch and a few pounds of each other. Both were under 4' 8" and under 80 pounds. One blonde, one brunette... Doggone, how I did go for the teensy "waif" look... I don't know if it was that "Twiggy" was the current "sex-symbol" or, that I was just making up for being 375 pounds myself...
I guess tastes don't change much over the decades. My sweet Wife, Betty is a scant 4' 9". She'll be 83 next month, and she's still cute as a wide-eyed meerkat.
My little missionary, "Sherri" tried her best to get me to listen to her about the Lord. Wish I'd have listened to her closer! Would have saved me (literally) from a LOT of mistakes in later life.
Being sort of the "Jumbo" size myself, I sometimes wondered just how it must have felt for that teensy gal to be jerked forward to stream out behind me, hanging onto my neck for dear life. Definitely the cutest scarf I ever wore fluttering in the wind... Cuter than "Hello Kitty!
Ride safe, stay in the saddle!
Leo (much, MUCH tamer today) in Texas
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Post by oldchopperguy on Mar 14, 2015 18:08:17 GMT -5
I swear Leo, sometimes I wish I could just live vicariously through your life!
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A lot of it was fun and adventure, but some was pretty unpleasant. Being "adventurous" hooks you up with all sorts of folks. Not all are healthy to be around. I've been broke, well-off, broke again and life's been somewhat of a roller-coaster. I've been an outlaw biker, an award-winning advertising creative director and a corporate Vice President... Now I live in a run-down trailer-house at the dirty end of a runway at D/FW Airport, and it looks like I'll probably finish the race back to broke, on an aging Taiwanese scooter, but it's been one helluva ride!
But through it all, I guess my adventures on two-wheels have been more enjoyable and made more good memories than other aspects of my nearly seventy years on this old rock. The BIKE part, you would have enjoyed. I lived through the build-it-yourself, no insurance, no helmets, no mufflers and no rules era. I arrived in Texas when drinking while driving was perfectly legal, blowing less than 4.0 would have a cop calling you an "amateur" and having him follow home to see you got there in one piece, until you learned to drink like a "real man"... and you carried your own law on your hip. I've seen and been in shootouts and all sorts of things "unpleasant". But the bike part was always good.
Still is!
Friends will let you down. Family will let you down. Business partners will let you down. But a bike? They never let you down... OOOPS! Forgot I started riding scooters on a Chinese 150... LOLOLOLOL! And then, there WAS that BSA 650 back in the sixties... I guess there ARE exceptions to the rule... Yup.
Today, I'm a dinosaur. Like a mountain man in the city... A lot of the things I enjoyed, and have treasured memories of simply couldn't be done today. The era is long gone. But today there are new things to do, new adventures to enjoy. So... Go for the gusto... Just be a little bit careful in the process.
Ride safe!
Leo (winding down the adventures some) in Texas
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Post by SylvreKat on Mar 14, 2015 21:33:32 GMT -5
You reminded me, Leo, of the county fair parade in Maryville. Pretty much every single driver had a beer in hand going down the road. About the only one who didn't was the little tyke who was maybe 5, on his pedal John Deere, "towing" his daddy in his full-size BIG John Deere.
Even the high school boys had a float with beer. It had been a dry summer, so for their float they had a tiki-hut and a rain god totem. First boy came out and offered a can of beer. Totem intoned "That's not good enough." Next came with a six-pack. "Still not enough." Third offered a big case. "STILL not enough." Fourth offered a key. "Now THAT'S good enough!" and water shot from it and all over the float while all four danced around then returned to the hut with their offerings.
It was the best dang parade I've seen. Beats to pieces our Old Settlers' with its overly-dictated rules of what's acceptable. Lots of super creativity. And a Pool Bus (formerly a School Bus). Plus about 80-some members of the Olathe Civic Band on a construction flatbed playing marches.
I dare anyone to beat that for a parade!
>'Kat
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