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[QUOTE="minifig-phil, post: 337984, member: 29733"] Hi I feel for you. This is something that I have been fearing for a long time. I just got married and we’re planning to have kids in a couple of years. I want my kids (boys or girls) to be into bikes. I already bought a mini bike how’s that for optimism? I’ve been getting myself prepared for this just incase. So this is just what I’ve been thinking. My parents never bought me a bike when I was young. I had to save up for my bike from a paper route. At 14 I bought a xr80 and a year later traded it in for a yz80. At 2 years of riding I was able to beat all my friends that have been riding for 5-7 years. I started racing schoolboy mx at 15 and had to stop a year later because I was way too short to ride a 125. I kind of got out of bikes and raced karts for a year then at 18 started straight into roadracing 3 years later won a national championship in Canada and had a racing career that spanned almost 10 years winning 4 other Canadian championships and almost (finished 2nd) in an American championship. I got very burned out from all the work, time and money that I quite and never even looked at a bike until this year (5 years later). I’ll tell you the fire is back burning hotter than ever. I bought my wife a bike that seems to really enjoy coming out riding with me. Having friends that are interested is a very big key to staying interested that’s what I had and not feeling like I have to ride. You may not feel like you are pushing your kid but he might think that he has to do it so you’ll feel proud of him. Maybe if you just keep the bike in your garage and not mention it anymore he’ll begin to show interest especially if his big brother is starting to ride again and he doesn’t feel he has to. You don’t have to be riding when your 5 years old to be really good when your older. If you have talent like your youngest sounds like he has it take no time at all to be a champion if he wants to. [/QUOTE]
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