03-12-2021, 08:40 PM
When I was growing up all of us neighborhood kids aspired to have a ‘mini bike’ but most of our parents either didn’t have the money or didn’t approve of them. We were stuck riding bicycles instead.
One day I was at a friend’s 8th birthday party and his dad wheeled out a brand spanking new mini bike (can’t remember the brand) as a surprise.
I’ll never forget watching him get on the bike for the first time in front of an audience of ten of his buddies, he had never ridden one before. It was like a comical YouTube video when he hit the throttle, panicked and rode full speed into a row of thick shrubbery instead of turning and pretty much disappeared, while his mom freaked out ... after that his dad let us each have a turn riding it in the yard and I was hooked. I remember it like it was yesterday even though it was 1970
One day I was at a friend’s 8th birthday party and his dad wheeled out a brand spanking new mini bike (can’t remember the brand) as a surprise.
I’ll never forget watching him get on the bike for the first time in front of an audience of ten of his buddies, he had never ridden one before. It was like a comical YouTube video when he hit the throttle, panicked and rode full speed into a row of thick shrubbery instead of turning and pretty much disappeared, while his mom freaked out ... after that his dad let us each have a turn riding it in the yard and I was hooked. I remember it like it was yesterday even though it was 1970