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4/10/2020 5:11am
Yesterday, for the first time, I couldn't make a pass on JB at the track. I probably could have if I'd have forced it, but I'd have had to take a chance, and maybe blast my own kid. His corner speed was better than mine, and he's jumping everything I jump. Several times I got close, but then I just ate roost.
So I guess the mantle of fastest Hamershock has been passed on to the younger generation. Both a good, and sad but inevitable, day. We've been riding together since he was 4, and I knew the day would come. I thought I had a little time left tho. He's going to be 14 in August, and I'll hit 57 in June.
Woodland MX
Edit - I showed him this picture and he said "Dad, my toes are pointed out. I need to fix that." So he is listening....
Hammer 663s
So I guess the mantle of fastest Hamershock has been passed on to the younger generation. Both a good, and sad but inevitable, day. We've been riding together since he was 4, and I knew the day would come. I thought I had a little time left tho. He's going to be 14 in August, and I'll hit 57 in June.
Woodland MX
Edit - I showed him this picture and he said "Dad, my toes are pointed out. I need to fix that." So he is listening....
Hammer 663s
Then, one weekend out of the blue, he passed me. And checked out. That was it, I never was able to run with him after that. The torch had been passed. This pic may have been one of the last times we were on the track together. The image belies the reality of the situation. He had tracked me down from (probably) a 30 second head start and smoked me.
He went to college and no longer rides dirt bikes, however, we mountain bike together pretty regularly. Until last spring, I had him covered in mtb, but no longer. he can beat me there too....except not as handily as on the dirt scooter.
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It happens to us all...hopefully.
I remember when Brent did the same.
It was a good day.
Hope you are well my friend
A couple years ago he submitted me for the first time in judo and I asked him what he did different? "I just waited for you to get tired." Sneaky little shit, he's just like my father's son.
Kinda ironic cause my boy took his first spin ever on a PW yesterday. Hes just a couple months shy of his 4th birthday.
I dream of the day i can sit in the passenger seat and sleep like they do on the long trips from the track.
It didn't work. Joshua smokes him now.
My kid is 10, and doesn't show any signs of wanting to race or get much faster. Unless something changes dramatically, it will be a long, long time before I can't keep up with him. Maybe never.
Pit Row
Being a smartass 16 year old, he reminds me all the time that he is faster than me. I remind him that my name is in the "vault" (Loretta Lynns) and his is not!! He then proceeds to tell me that we were not near as fast back then!
It's at least a decade ago, and my son and I still talk about this day...
Such mixed emotions at the time, I will never forget it.
Within a few weeks I couldn’t keep him in sight with my GoPro.
I’d pull over then jump out behind him to video him and a few turns later he’s gone again.
Good times! This is what we live for!
When we got to the pits he was I know to not do that but it was you so I had too.
Pretty sure he enjoyed the day more than I did.
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