firecracker22
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- Oct 23, 2000
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So for the first time I am dating someone who isn't (wasn't) a rider. We met last spring, and really, things are going very well. He is sweet and wonderful and I'll stop right there before you gag. He mountain bikes and skis but didn't ride motorcycles. So I took him and let him ride my KTM. Then he was interested enough so I adopted my brother's wreck of a DT400. So he rode that a few times out at our ORV park. We went trail riding once just before I had knee surgery, and he did excellent on a trail I'd call advanced beginner or easy intermediate. Actually, he did better on said trail (his first ever trail ride) than I did after a year of riding. While it's fairly wide in most places, there are some sections with nice little rock piles to get through. There was one in particular that got me every time for a LONG time.
Then he starts talking smack about kicking my ass down in Reno. Telling myself "Well, he is only a guy," I shrugged it off. Scary thing is he got kinda close. I'll chalk it up to a.) typical male lack of fear and b.) more upper body strength. He definitely figured out how to hold the throttle on in the wide stuff. Thankfully, for now, I can still get him in the more technical parts; but I don't think that will take long.
Fearing for his fragile male ego, I resolved to hold my laughter and caustic comments back while he struggled on the trails, but truthfully there weren't many opportunities for them!
Now what?
:flame:
Then he starts talking smack about kicking my ass down in Reno. Telling myself "Well, he is only a guy," I shrugged it off. Scary thing is he got kinda close. I'll chalk it up to a.) typical male lack of fear and b.) more upper body strength. He definitely figured out how to hold the throttle on in the wide stuff. Thankfully, for now, I can still get him in the more technical parts; but I don't think that will take long.
Fearing for his fragile male ego, I resolved to hold my laughter and caustic comments back while he struggled on the trails, but truthfully there weren't many opportunities for them!
Now what?
:flame: