Your father and you -- have you gone riding together?

[Howie]

I am the only one on my side of the family who rides.  On my wife's side two cousins used to ride.  One wanted to buy a bike again.  Her husband won't let her

[acalles]

last time we went together was about 3 weeks ago, we'll probably go again next weekend..

heres a pic of his bike, my bike and my cousins hypermotard.



he's been riding over 30 years, he just got that BMW, and has a 37 harley flat head, 78 shovel, and 91 harley full dresser.
he's been to sturgis every year since 80, and mom goes with him when work permits.

for being such a big bike, that bmw can run 

[wbeck257]

Ridden with my dad plenty of times... been awhile since are last one though.
But soon it will be dad, brother, sister, girlfriend, and me all on a ride. (All w/ own bikes too... not just passengers).

How many of you have RACED with your Dad?
I have... he won.. (He even block-passed and wrecked me for the win)

[Benjamin5150]

Not yet but soon.   After three years of me telling him he needs to get one, he's looking to buy a Multistrada.
He's already signed up for the MSF class (he hasn't ridden a motorcycle since the early '80's).

[Vindingo]

My father refuses to get on the bike.  My mother on the other hand, loves it!  I wonder why everyone here whose father will not, has a mother who will?  Opposites attract maybe...

I was going to get her a MSF gift cert. for her 50th bday this year, but decided against it.  I know she would have loved it, but my father flipped out when I told him.  Maybe next year

[ADG]

My father, at 66, is faster than all you Brian Ws combined. 

[Nitewaif]

I was probably around 4.  Dad rode a Sportster and my mother rode a Honda Scrambler.   I'd hang on behind him wearing a little plastic football helmet. 

Dad would love to get his hands on one of my Ducs but I don't want him killing himself.  He is "coaching" my sister who is just learning to ride on things like how she shouldn't use the front brake.  I have to drag him out of the 1960's before I'll break down and let him take a Duc out.  He thinks my sister's old, tired baby Ninja is powerful, so I want him to get in more current seat time before he breaks his neck and my bike.

[Statler]

My father, at 66, is faster than all you Brian Ws combined. 

but they'll all still be able to post here.   Take it down a notch, ADG.

[Betty Rage]

My dad bought a brand new Honda Shadow this year, his first bike since I was a wee one.

We rode on it together when I went to visit him a few weeks ago, then he let me ride it. I've never ridden anything bigger than a 250 while not on the back, so it was pretty fun!

In this pic I tried hard to look like a badass toothless harley guy. Didn't work.

[Tommy T.]

My grandfather rode, Dad rode, I ride, my son rides a little (doesn't own a bike), and both grandsons have riden as passengers on my wife's tail while I tagged along on my bike.

One of my earliest memories was climbing through the tube over the bomb-bay in his B-25 in 1944.  Another was waking up in a tent on a sand bar during a canoe camping trip with my Dad when I was 4 years old.  When I took my six year old grand-daughter on the same trip two years ago, my 89 year old father dropped us off and picked us up three days down stream.  I camped with Dad hundreds of times.  We never rode together but whether it's riding or doing someother life-long shared activity, I think that a close relationship with a father is one of the best parts of life.  When Dad died, at home with most of us there, at 89, we had no unfinished business and nothing but wonderful memories.

Tommy T.