3 Freakin pages, and no tips for managing a pesky girl friend
My folks are kinda ok to the idea now....

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Okay with GF or touring??


I tell my mom and sis about my trip. they are pretty much Ok with it. Mom always warns me... keep away from truckers on the highways, ride safe wear helmets etc. And then I show Dad some nice pics of green vistas and after a few pics, me with those vistaas in the background. Dad goes whoa !!!! But all's fine.He expresses astonishment to the fact that i can ride my bike for that long.

Tell them that you tour in a group, signaling each other well. Also get good riding gear&tell them how valuable it can be!'
In short, explain the difference between responsible&irresponsible bikers

This is what I did.. She wasnt at all convinced for my trip to Leh in June..
I told her this is something i want to do for myself.. & I want to do it before we get married, so I shall be able to give complete time to you after marriage.. So please let me go happily & promise to call up everyday..
I promise later you will be proud for what I did..

Today she is for what I did after her colleagues appreciate about the not-so-easy journey

I tried that except for committing on the No ride after manage bit! I would not want to give up riding after marriage! Heck if I had my way, I would ride to moon when God tells me that I have a year to live !

I guess will try again on something similar...! Any other tips...!

LOL. That would be too much of touring.

my first try -got bout 12 bikes of my friends to come at my doorstep and told my parents all o us were goin, after seein the numbers they just let me go.

well if parents have a problem saying ok..lying to them and going behind their backs is not the right thing.. we think they are blinded to our needs but we are blinded to their concern too.
I try to go on gtgs but if it is a strict no at home then i refrain because if i do go against their wishes they will spend the rest of the time in tension and jumping up everytime the phone rings thinking its bad news.
I have a very close friend who lost his brother in a bike accident and seeing teh plight of his parents and the sadness and misery the y have gone through i realized that i wud rather stifle a bit of my happiness to give them peace and more over they can only say no for a few more years once you become independent then you can go on all teh rides that you want to.
My post is particularly aimed at those people who are still in colleges..remember you can replace a long gtg with with many short ones and you can always tour later on but you cant replace your parents trust or your life.
next time they say no try to convince them to say yes or take a rain check rather than do something which you will regret later.
this post was not to criticize anyone but comes a result of my experience working in a government hospital emergency , where the rider is blissfully unconscious or dead and i have to see the family shattered and broken up.

I second what harsha has said. Each and every word is true. Do not lie to your parents when you are going on a long journey. You will constantly worry about your parents finding out your whereabouts and you will never completely enjoy the trip.

This permission thing is very common to college goers! As for me, I'll just wait till I start earning and be independent.

hey guyz let me share my experience too....
few days back myself n my frens planned for a long trip for abt 5days...thru western ghats....
i had to inform my parents....so the prevoius day i told them n got a strict noif vr goin in bike.....i was in tears...
but i couldn cancel it either..so we wen by other means o transport..
i think the mistake is directly v cant expect parents to agree for a 5 days trip wen i havent told them abt my one day trips i hav done secretly til now
just lik few o them told here.. fil the tank N ride hard.....enjoy the pleasure o biking....
so its better to go for a few short one day trips wit permission n later increase t 2 days 3 days.............. And when ur independent enjoy bikin t d core..................no one ll stop u..except for a few parents..
happy biking.....

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Isnt that how you graduate to long rides, and realise your own potential capacity of riding.. It helps you psychologically before going on a 5-day ride that you have done 2-3 days rides earlier. But if those 2-3 days rides were not in the knowledge of your folks.. how would they agree to let you venture out to the unknown on a *deathtrap* (As they see your bike)

They have to know about 90% of all your long rides, but there is a time and a place for everything. I liked the way Aryan does it... Showing off the greenery in the pics... then showing off himself in the greenery..

Even when i was in college.. I never asked permission for any kinds of trips. I just let them know i was leaving.. say next morning..

You kind-of have to earn the trust.. by not crashing too often, following traffic rules, and showing plain common sense on the road, especially when the folks are around while in a car or on a bike.

Either you earn the trust (directly or via siblings), or if they choose to neither be enlightened and stay obstinate, then just lie with a straight face.

If their fears dominate your life, then there is no end. Its your life not theirs.

And time/age will not sort that out. I know crorepati businessmen with 2 kids who did Leh trip lying to their parents that they are flying to Leh, not riding.

For people who have restrictions back home,smaller rides will do I guess....If their parents are cool about it,i dont see any problems arising...C'mon guys,plenty of years are staring at you.Make full use of those(aimed at coll goers)...and like the others over here replied,just try to gain your parents confidence.I've been into long rides for a long time now and though I face issues some times,i just try to sort it out...It really works guys.dont ever lie to your parents and end up losing their trust "if" something goes wrong...

yup ...this is the best way i guess..

same here,but will be free to ride only when i earn on my own
now will do with small trips,without parents knowledge
but gonna stop that now after some time

and from now on if my parents are not allowing,then i won't go,
simple,some one adviced me sothanking him

how can we tell ways to get permission,everyones parents are different,we cant do anything untill they want so,untill you are not on your own

i'am too confused on this