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alphado
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Edited Date/Time 2/15/2015 9:46am
I miss Motocross and Joey is still mad at me for taking it away from him. I am getting a bike or two for us!
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G-man 2/13/2015 6:45am
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Good job Alph!
I still remember the day Joey was born--little fella was the FIRST MotoDrive baby... Smile

Nice to see you.
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FreshTopEnd 2/13/2015 7:23am
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alphado wrote:
I miss Motocross and Joey is still mad at me for taking it away from him. I am getting a bike or two for us!
"We're getting the band back together."

It's only allowed if you start posting pics again Alph; some people need the treatement
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DoctorJD 2/13/2015 8:05am
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Let me get this thread back on track.

I was looking back through some old pictures and found a few of the Christmas when my son got his JR-50. It was weird, I didn't remember him being that little and riding. I bought myself a bike that year and thus began a rekindling of a passion, and the beginning of another one. I went through the KTM Jr's, the King Cobras, the 65's, the 85's. We quit for a couple of years after a few high-profile incidents of kids being killed on dirt bikes. I couldn't bring myself to put him on the bike.

A couple of years ago, he had kind of lost his way. Nothing major, but his grades started slipping and he was getting into trouble at school, something VERY unusual for him. Plus, he looked miserable. He was 15 then, and one day he started pulling my old 250F out of the shop and riding it around the yard. I saw how happy it made him simply riding around the yard. That Fall, I bought myself an old YZ250 and gave him my 250F. This is a picture from the first day back riding:



It had been a long time since I'd seen that smile. Its been two years since then, and now he's kicking his old man's ass. We don't race, he says he has no desire to go that direction, he just loves riding. He broke his wrist back on November 9th in a crash, and he JUST got released this week. Guess what we're doing this weekend? Riding moto is one of the few things we do together. If you have teenagers, you know that as they get older, the less cool your parents get, and the less time they want to spend with you. He actually wants to go riding with me, its kind of our thing. I wouldn't trade it for the world.

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jeffro503 2/13/2015 11:46am
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You can never stay away Alp-bro. No matter how many times we get banged up......our brain just filters out all the bad.....and contains the good. I've always said.....the day I die.....5sec's before that I would of had the throttle tapped.

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FLmxer 2/13/2015 12:00pm
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DoctorJD wrote:
Let me get this thread back on track. I was looking back through some old pictures and found a few of the Christmas when my son...
Let me get this thread back on track.

I was looking back through some old pictures and found a few of the Christmas when my son got his JR-50. It was weird, I didn't remember him being that little and riding. I bought myself a bike that year and thus began a rekindling of a passion, and the beginning of another one. I went through the KTM Jr's, the King Cobras, the 65's, the 85's. We quit for a couple of years after a few high-profile incidents of kids being killed on dirt bikes. I couldn't bring myself to put him on the bike.

A couple of years ago, he had kind of lost his way. Nothing major, but his grades started slipping and he was getting into trouble at school, something VERY unusual for him. Plus, he looked miserable. He was 15 then, and one day he started pulling my old 250F out of the shop and riding it around the yard. I saw how happy it made him simply riding around the yard. That Fall, I bought myself an old YZ250 and gave him my 250F. This is a picture from the first day back riding:



It had been a long time since I'd seen that smile. Its been two years since then, and now he's kicking his old man's ass. We don't race, he says he has no desire to go that direction, he just loves riding. He broke his wrist back on November 9th in a crash, and he JUST got released this week. Guess what we're doing this weekend? Riding moto is one of the few things we do together. If you have teenagers, you know that as they get older, the less cool your parents get, and the less time they want to spend with you. He actually wants to go riding with me, its kind of our thing. I wouldn't trade it for the world.

That is one of the very best parts of this sport. Love it. Also welcome back alphado
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Awesome and happy you are both getting back at it. Stay on Gas
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ocscottie 2/13/2015 1:25pm
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Great news Alph! dang, how old is Joey now? What bikes are you looking at?
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alphado 2/13/2015 1:27pm
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He is 13, about 5'10", looking for a 125 I think.
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Camp332 2/13/2015 1:36pm
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alphado wrote:
He is 13, about 5'10", looking for a 125 I think.
He's 13 already!

He's also taller than I'll ever be.
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MOTOXSTATION 2/13/2015 1:58pm
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FreshTopEnd wrote:
"We're getting the band back together."

It's only allowed if you start posting pics again Alph; some people need the treatement
Please, no more trains! Or bear pics! Can't believe Joeys 13 ...
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newmann 2/13/2015 2:04pm
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13 and looking for a 125? You came to Vital to announce this? He needs a 450, nothing else will do.
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TeamGreen 2/13/2015 2:12pm
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newmann wrote:
13 and looking for a 125? You came to Vital to announce this? He needs a 450, nothing else will do.
Husky TC125 & a TE125 for "asst'd off-roading".

Anything less would be child-abuse.
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GrapeApe 2/13/2015 2:14pm
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newmann wrote:
13 and looking for a 125? You came to Vital to announce this? He needs a 450, nothing else will do.
Good to see you coming around, Newmann.
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Crash82 2/13/2015 2:47pm
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We could hang out man,I am pretty sure I would be popular if we hung out. Cool you came back, Vital is a pretty decent place these days.
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zehn 2/13/2015 2:52pm
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Holy shit, did I just stumble into a 2006-ish MotoDrive thread?

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