Learning to Ride When You are Young!

[Mindgrinder]

nice, good work on that bike too, i saw similar ones for kids in some big stores. However i still think minor should not be encouraged to ride even though adrenaline kicks in early or as parents there is a feeling to fufill our dreams disguising there's. I knew how to ride a scooter when i was 17 but i was not allowed to ride anything before i was 18 and had a license, and i think i thank my Dad for being responsible.

[Puneet1]

Nice looking bike there .
Aryan looks kinda scared sitting behind as pillion , maybe mael popped a few intentional wheelies

[Aryan]

Aryan looks kinda scared sitting behind as pillion , maybe mael popped a few intentional wheelies

I am never really comfortable sitting pillion!

[c_sbk]

I touched a powered two wheeler at 16!

me too at 15.but my dream bike/scooter is bajaj sunny at that time

Thanks. Just drop by if you wanna meet. You can see him in action. It is good fun.

Thanks All. Will be putting up updates pretty soon.

i m in for this.i want to feel my childhood again like last time i did on this jan09.

[inder.cool]

@ Ken Da : Nice write up there...nice feelings attached to it..

Now, i also want to ride a pocket bike..!

[gsferrari]

Grandpa Ken thinks he is an Old-fart...

Only Old-Fox has any claim to that title on Xbhp

[ken cool]

Ken bhaiya, you are one great "coach + father" I have seen. Really, the kid must be proud of you... I wish I had such a fatherly figure above me, then I would have been riding hard upto now.

Well, it seems under-geared after those small wheels, but I guess at this age (8), undergearing is better, than making it capable of high-speeding. So, Mileage must be like 8 kmpl or something??

Anyways now, that he can ride on his own, atleast you don't have to manage wheelies as a Pillion, do you?

When he is 16, don't forget to tell him to join Xbhp. We would love to talk to him.

Thanks Samarth.
Yes it is undergeared with those wheels, but as I said, it keeps wheelieing all the time. Which is why he starts on 2nd. And rides mostly on 3rd and 2nd which makes it fuel guzzler and giving a mileage of something like a Sbk.

Like father, like son! Mael will soon prove that he is a chip of the old block!
The way you were teaching him reminds me of my Uncle (a biker in his days) teaching me to ride the Hero Puch at the age of 8.
I will also teach my son in the same way. Luckily they will have better machines than what we had!

Do not count on having better machines here in this country for children.

...which will perhaps run on alternate source of fuel/ battery!

He might have a kid in the next few years... you never know. Which means that his kid will be riding a bike in less than a decade. I am pretty sure fossil fuels will be still around aplenty.

nice, good work on that bike too, i saw similar ones for kids in some big stores. However i still think minor should not be encouraged to ride even though adrenaline kicks in early or as parents there is a feeling to fufill our dreams disguising there's. I knew how to ride a scooter when i was 17 but i was not allowed to ride anything before i was 18 and had a license, and i think i thank my Dad for being responsible.

Totally agree. Minors should not be encouraged to ride. Parents should be responsible. But still I plan to visit countries (in SE Asia and some countries in the West as well) and see the sport where kids start racing at the age of 8 onwards on Dirt. These races are amazing and 10year old kids ride like the way I will NEVER be able to ride. I have no ambitions or dreams. It is pure fun. You can join in too if you feel like. Just drop by.

Nice looking bike there .
Aryan looks kinda scared sitting behind as pillion , maybe mael popped a few intentional wheelies

Thanks.
Yes, Aryan is scared sitting behind. Which is why he never wanted to sit behind me on the R1!!!

me too at 15.but my dream bike/scooter is bajaj sunny at that time


i m in for this.i want to feel my childhood again like last time i did on this jan09.

Hey drop by. You know I have two of these, one large, one mini. You can teach him how to take corners.

@ Ken Da : Nice write up there...nice feelings attached to it..

Now, i also want to ride a pocket bike..!

Thanks. Me too.

Grandpa Ken thinks he is an Old-fart...

Only Old-Fox has any claim to that title on Xbhp

You seem too chicken to step this side of Nagpur.

[spiderweb]

I will also teach my son in the same way. Luckily they will have better machines than what we had!

Was thinking of the same, as I'll be getting married in 2-3 years & wish my kids get an SBK Rider dad I mean ME only!

I am Young and Dashing, occasionally riding a Sbk. Fireblade? Nah. A smaller more discreet smarter and faster R1. And I am just 19... forever.
Thanks. And yes, I will keep updating on the progress. This weekend I may go around taking some interesting pix on difficult terrain where he might even fall...

R1... hehehe! coOlz da word. 19 forever!!! then we'll always be the same age, 19...
On difficult terrain? like?
might even fall? That'll just make him stronger. like father like son I guess...

You seem too chicken to step this side of Nagpur.

Nagpur happens to be my hometown+birthplace+the streets where I learnt riding...

[shelleve]

Mael two words that you should stick by - Ride Safe

[ken cool]

Updates:

On difficult terrain? like?
might even fall? That'll just make him stronger. like father like son I guess...

Mael two words that you should stick by - Ride Safe

I will surely convey that to him.


Giving the recent updates from about 10 days ago. He has been practicing on the older offroad section that is evident in the first post. And later he was keen on practicing on a piece of land that was plowed by a Bulldozer. I was hesitant. He was not. So I let him ride there. He enjoyed. He fell. More initially. Much less after a few days of practice. On relatively better land, he can maintain good speeds. But on this, it is tougher. Some photographs.








He is learning to stick out his leg





He is trying to lean


Getting decent lean angles for a 9 year old on off road





While practicing on the above patch, after a point of time, just going fast and bit of leaning and doing figures of 8 do not distract him enough. He gets bored saying that there is not much to do. Speed is not fun enough over there. Hence we moved to a land about a hundred metres away.

Below is the new terrain that he is trying out. It is not easy to ride on this. Earlier he fell quite often... every 3 minutes or so. Now he can ride on for 6 minutes before falling or taking a break.





This part he enjoys much more. And the more he does this, the easier it becomes for him to do everything else.

Hope you guys enjoyed too. I will be shortly uploading videos too.

[Shivanshu]

Good pics and good to see he is learning to fall and rise.... keep it up Ken Da

[shabbarak]

i am starting to wonder if i could last for 6 minitues on that terrain , sir hats of to you for having the guts to let ur child ride on such loose dirt track and seeing him fall and rise again .

[ken cool]

Good pics and good to see he is learning to fall and rise.... keep it up Ken Da

Thanks.

i am starting to wonder if i could last for 6 minitues on that terrain , sir hats of to you for having the guts to let ur child ride on such loose dirt track and seeing him fall and rise again .

[rachitkohli]

amazing there ken..!!
a perfect father for a perfect kid.. thats wht i can say..!!

how about a movie on this..
this reminds me of Biker Boyz..!

[pads]

Wow Ken..... cool man...... you are an all-rounder....... n Mael do look good in his bikes(with engine n without Engine)....... you seems n feels lot younger than your age ........ cooooooollllllllllllll...........