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From: PymerOne on 23 May 2010 16:34
Dear All,

i was blessed with an genuine "dad you promised...".
As i didnt feel like riding myself i only collected the kids toys from the
shed.
While testfiring the DT65 started leaking oil, that one goes for another run
through the rebuildprocess.
Kids were quite ok with just taking the babyblue fourstroke to the dirtpark.
First the kids took turns carefully warming up the engine, just puttputting
around between the 4x4s.
Then we moved to the far end of the park, nobody there but us chickens.
Tried to make the kids listen to the engine, get a feel for the powerband.
Totally unselfish i demonstrated some things i thought they need, like
blazing through a turn, powerbraking and crashrecovery.
When looking at them ride, i noticed Wouter really tries to race, my son
Vincent just loves to climb hills and crawl through trees.
To each his own...
I placed a lot of empty buckets in a 15 meter circle, told Wouter to ride
around them in 2nd gear, told Vincent to zigzag at a pace that pleases him.
Both kids really had to work hard to get the bike to do what they wanted,
and they did so happily.
Although Vincent is the carefull rider, it was him that overlooked a rock
and went flying over the handlebars...no dammage but a bent rearbrakepedal.
Next we moved to the "babycircuit" on the other end of the park, an oval
track with high berms.
Hardly surprising, Vincent went offtrack the first chance he got to wrestle
the bike through the trees, Wouter asked for information about "navigating
that non-level turn" and really tried to apply the things i told him.
Silly me, i told him to enter the turn at highspeed before i checked if he
understood leaning and steering into the turn.
Wouter went fast into the turn, halfway he met up with the highend of the
berm, went over and upside down.
Brave kid...more brave than smart anyway.
I took it down a notch or two, demonstrated each step before i told him what
i did and why.
Wouter mastered that turn in the end.
When i told the kids that a controlled wheelie is a valid way to pick up
speed in the softsand both of them wanted to learn that too.
I told them how i wheelie my YZ 125 and send them out riding.
Both kids didnt get the frontwheel off the ground (noclutch system).
So i took a turn, tried a bit and instantly knew what i neglected to tell
them.
Told them stepbystep:
ride at 50% revs
sit way back on the saddle
throttledown and compress the front
throttle wfo and pull the handlebars.
This worked for the kids ;)
After a few hilarious semicrashes we called it a day and went home.
Sore, bruised, exhausted and happy allover.

Grtz, PymerOne.





From: I am Tosk on 23 May 2010 19:14
In article <4bf9915b$0$14117$703f8584(a)textnews.kpn.nl>,
PymerOne(a)ppllaanneett.nl says...
>
> Dear All,
>
> i was blessed with an genuine "dad you promised...".
> As i didnt feel like riding myself i only collected the kids toys from the
> shed.
> While testfiring the DT65 started leaking oil, that one goes for another run
> through the rebuildprocess.
> Kids were quite ok with just taking the babyblue fourstroke to the dirtpark.
> First the kids took turns carefully warming up the engine, just puttputting
> around between the 4x4s.
> Then we moved to the far end of the park, nobody there but us chickens.
> Tried to make the kids listen to the engine, get a feel for the powerband.
> Totally unselfish i demonstrated some things i thought they need, like
> blazing through a turn, powerbraking and crashrecovery.
> When looking at them ride, i noticed Wouter really tries to race, my son
> Vincent just loves to climb hills and crawl through trees.
> To each his own...
> I placed a lot of empty buckets in a 15 meter circle, told Wouter to ride
> around them in 2nd gear, told Vincent to zigzag at a pace that pleases him.
> Both kids really had to work hard to get the bike to do what they wanted,
> and they did so happily.
> Although Vincent is the carefull rider, it was him that overlooked a rock
> and went flying over the handlebars...no dammage but a bent rearbrakepedal.
> Next we moved to the "babycircuit" on the other end of the park, an oval
> track with high berms.
> Hardly surprising, Vincent went offtrack the first chance he got to wrestle
> the bike through the trees, Wouter asked for information about "navigating
> that non-level turn" and really tried to apply the things i told him.
> Silly me, i told him to enter the turn at highspeed before i checked if he
> understood leaning and steering into the turn.
> Wouter went fast into the turn, halfway he met up with the highend of the
> berm, went over and upside down.
> Brave kid...more brave than smart anyway.
> I took it down a notch or two, demonstrated each step before i told him what
> i did and why.
> Wouter mastered that turn in the end.
> When i told the kids that a controlled wheelie is a valid way to pick up
> speed in the softsand both of them wanted to learn that too.
> I told them how i wheelie my YZ 125 and send them out riding.
> Both kids didnt get the frontwheel off the ground (noclutch system).
> So i took a turn, tried a bit and instantly knew what i neglected to tell
> them.
> Told them stepbystep:
> ride at 50% revs
> sit way back on the saddle
> throttledown and compress the front
> throttle wfo and pull the handlebars.
> This worked for the kids ;)
> After a few hilarious semicrashes we called it a day and went home.
> Sore, bruised, exhausted and happy allover.
>
> Grtz, PymerOne.

Ha' Old fool indeed... I fell four times, three in one lap today.. I can
tell you about old fools... Glad to see the little ones getting into it,
now you just got to get the jones back on to ride. I have been riding
three to four times a week, I love it

RMR

--
Rowdy Mouse Racing - We race for cheese!
From: Wudsracer on 24 May 2010 16:31
Thanks for the ride report, P1!
I thoroughly enjoyed it. Keep up the good work, and telling us about
it.

Jim

____________________________________

>On Sun, 23 May 2010 22:34:31 +0200, "PymerOne" <PymerOne(a)ppllaanneett.nl> wrote:

>Dear All,
>
>i was blessed with an genuine "dad you promised...".
>As i didnt feel like riding myself i only collected the kids toys from the
>shed.
>While testfiring the DT65 started leaking oil, that one goes for another run
>through the rebuildprocess.
>Kids were quite ok with just taking the babyblue fourstroke to the dirtpark.
>First the kids took turns carefully warming up the engine, just puttputting
>around between the 4x4s.
>Then we moved to the far end of the park, nobody there but us chickens.
>Tried to make the kids listen to the engine, get a feel for the powerband.
>Totally unselfish i demonstrated some things i thought they need, like
>blazing through a turn, powerbraking and crashrecovery.
>When looking at them ride, i noticed Wouter really tries to race, my son
>Vincent just loves to climb hills and crawl through trees.
>To each his own...
>I placed a lot of empty buckets in a 15 meter circle, told Wouter to ride
>around them in 2nd gear, told Vincent to zigzag at a pace that pleases him.
>Both kids really had to work hard to get the bike to do what they wanted,
>and they did so happily.
>Although Vincent is the carefull rider, it was him that overlooked a rock
>and went flying over the handlebars...no dammage but a bent rearbrakepedal.
>Next we moved to the "babycircuit" on the other end of the park, an oval
>track with high berms.
>Hardly surprising, Vincent went offtrack the first chance he got to wrestle
>the bike through the trees, Wouter asked for information about "navigating
>that non-level turn" and really tried to apply the things i told him.
>Silly me, i told him to enter the turn at highspeed before i checked if he
>understood leaning and steering into the turn.
>Wouter went fast into the turn, halfway he met up with the highend of the
>berm, went over and upside down.
>Brave kid...more brave than smart anyway.
>I took it down a notch or two, demonstrated each step before i told him what
>i did and why.
>Wouter mastered that turn in the end.
>When i told the kids that a controlled wheelie is a valid way to pick up
>speed in the softsand both of them wanted to learn that too.
>I told them how i wheelie my YZ 125 and send them out riding.
>Both kids didnt get the frontwheel off the ground (noclutch system).
>So i took a turn, tried a bit and instantly knew what i neglected to tell
>them.
>Told them stepbystep:
>ride at 50% revs
>sit way back on the saddle
>throttledown and compress the front
>throttle wfo and pull the handlebars.
>This worked for the kids ;)
>After a few hilarious semicrashes we called it a day and went home.
>Sore, bruised, exhausted and happy allover.
>
>Grtz, PymerOne.
>
>
>
>

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