Originally Posted by anants_220

nice to know that everyone faces these issues.im planning chennai-mumbai in dec.Im going to send an email to my father regarding all that im gonna be doing.By the time he reads it and the shock sets in,ill be 100kms away from blore atleast.

Originally Posted by cHoKoBoI

Seems i am late to the party,
Almost same situation as of everyone here,
I wont inform them where am going but after coming back i say i have gone here and they keep their faces like WTF

Originally Posted by acs1207

Way back in 1990 (ya , 21 years back) I planned and executed a trip - 4 of us on an RX100 and a KI-HO(kinetic honda) from Kannur in Kerala to Ooty.All of us guys were just past 21 then.Two of us were just employed and the other two were looking for employment ! I bluffed (well , O.K., lied) to my dad that we'd go half way on the bike and the rest by bus . Heck !....I didn't even have a valid license then even though it was my RX100 !!!One of my friends had to sell old news papers to get enough money for the trip ! It was a great trip-the only place where the Ki-Ho gave up was at the Dhoda Petta peak , two up. . .! Never knew anything about bikes then , have learned quite something since then . .Didn't have any mobiles (a.k.a. cell phones) then . We were lucky if we could get an STD connection at night . Well , once I was back home , I told my dad that we had gone on two wheelers and that we hadn't told our families earlier since we expected opposition . The next trip , same route , had my mum seeing me off at 3.30 AM from where I was working at that time-she'd landed the previous evening !
If possible , be fully honest ..if not possible , try to avoid a lie .

Originally Posted by thaker1985

Hi All,

Let me say a little something about myself, before you start thinking that I am another teenager hammering on the ever so controversial "parent-child" conflict

I am 24 years old, and work in Bangalore at an IT firm. My parents stay in Chennai. I have been riding since I was 14, and have never met with any major accidents till date (touchwood).

Lately, I have developed an interest in doing long distance trips on my motorcycle, and am really getting hooked on to such butt-breakers. But my parents are REALLY worried that i do such trips on own. I have tried every trick up my sleeve to convince them that this is not such a bad idea. I wear proper gear while doing these trips, have decent enough knowledge on amatuer motorcycle fixing, and constantly keep in touch with my folks while I am on the road. Yet, there is a strong opposition on their part. I have even tried the lame excuse of "festival time, so couldn't get tickets for the bus/train/plane, and hence rode down home, to be with you , mom/dad " My father went to the extent of suggesting that I should sell my bike, and get a new car. Now, I care a lot for them, and would not like them to feel that I do not respect their feelings, just because I stay away from them, and am independent.

Is it me, or are there any other poor folks out here, who have have been in a similar situation. There are a zillion questions on my mind, but I'll stick to asking the more important ones. What is it that makes parents think that we (Motorcycle tourers) are risking our lives. How does someone in my position go about convincing them otherwise

MODS, please merge this if there is an existing thread on this.

Thanks all!