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Message: [QUOTE="oldguy, post: 1207802, member: 16965"] Actually Spider was the motivation all by himself for a dirtbike. When he was about 5 we went to a sports show/ expo (hunting and fishing) but the local AMA district had a display about MX there. As soon as we walked near their booth he ran over and jumped on the 60 they were displaying and started making the sounds of riding. The nice lady in the booth (now a very close friend 14 years later) started her sales pitch about it being a family sport and on and on with the same propaganda I now use on people. Remembering my broken back from racing when I was 14 and the fact we just could not afford it right then I some how broke his little fingers away from that bike and dragged him away. The next 5 or so weeks were brutal around our house as he talked non stop about a dirtbike and how he needed one. Eventually it went away (we thought) as he realized he was not getting a dirtbike and some other new necessity entered his world. 4 years later out of the blue ( he had never once mentioned a dirtbike or that he was saving his money for one) he declared he had $450 saved up and he now wanted to buy a dirtbike. At this point I said ask your mom and her answer is the final answer - much to my amazement she said yes and now 10 years later he is still addicted to racing. I even at one point 2 seasons ago after he was stretchered off an MX track for the 4th time that season with serious injuries offered that I would figure out what we spend on racing and give him that cash for whatever he wanted if he would quit (he had turned 16 and wanted a car bad). His answer was no way he wanted to race. So I guess kids can pull us adults into this without any prodding from the parents [/QUOTE]

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