So you're a family (wo)man now... [Archive]

baptist

21st May 2012, 22:08

Yep, definitely, I done some growing up right across the board when I stepped up to the new role.

+1

I think I ride in granny pop socks now :facepalm::facepalm:... Should not have made a difference (if you are riding sensibly and properly you shouldn't need to change) but it did.

Conquiztador

21st May 2012, 22:10

A few years ago I crashed on the beach w/o helmet. Ended up in hospital with 7 broken ribs and punctured lunge. (Tried to sleep it off, but would not work...). Already had my 4 boys then. The adjustment I have done is not to crash on the beach anymore, apart from that not much change.

jim.cox

22nd May 2012, 06:56

so where's the "I'm a family man, I dont have time to ride anymore" option?

DMNTD

22nd May 2012, 07:00

so where's the "I'm a family man, I dont have time to ride anymore" option?

....in your wife's hand bag :yes:

slofox

22nd May 2012, 08:21

My kids are both parents themselves and are way past needing me so I can ride as stupidly as I like. Actually, I'd be doing them a favour if I had the terminal crash since they'd get what little money I have left - come to think of it, that'd be eff all anyway so what the hell...

SimJen

22nd May 2012, 08:22

so where's the "I'm a family man, I dont have time to ride anymore" option?

or the "I'm a family man, my wife doesn't like me riding anymore" option!
With wife and three klingons I ride just the same as I've always done. Fast when the situation allows.

rickstv

22nd May 2012, 08:35

I thought that I was a very careful rider and rode quite defensively. Then my 10yr old daughter pillioned with me. I started riding like a complete nana with her on the back.:sweatdrop

Taz

22nd May 2012, 09:06

I always ride within my limits, ask anyone who knows me :innocent:

Conquiztador

22nd May 2012, 09:21

I thought that I was a very careful rider and rode quite defensively. Then my 10yr old daughter pillioned with me. I started riding like a complete nana with her on the back.:sweatdrop

My, now 10yo, has had rides on my bikes since he was very little. Initially sitting in front of me guarded by my arms as we slowly would go around the block. These days he rides MX and when we go for a ride on a road bike he sits as pillion. When 6yo and I first time put him on the back seat I took it easy as it was all new to me to have him beind me. We would have done 50 - 60k/h. I stopped at the local shop and he asked: "Can't this bike go faster?"... Today I ride like I always do when he is on and he loves it. He can't wait until he can ride on the road him self.

Conquiztador

22nd May 2012, 09:35

or the "I'm a family man, my wife doesn't like me riding anymore" option!
With wife and three klingons I ride just the same as I've always done. Fast when the situation allows.
Would be waste to have that question on here. They have all now moved to the "my wife says" website where they compare people movers, and where the highlight of their day is when they are allowed to park the wifies red sports car in the garage.

SMOKEU

22nd May 2012, 09:51

Tigadee

22nd May 2012, 10:03

Actually, I'd be doing them a favour if I had the terminal crash since they'd get what little money I have left - come to think of it, that'd be eff all anyway so what the hell...

Don't say that! Intact organs fetch a good price, and think of your posthumous contribution to science and medicine...

Conquiztador

22nd May 2012, 10:16

How did you manage to get pwned that bad on a beach?

Had started raining and I was in a hurry to get back home. There was heaps of rocks on the beach fist size and bigger. They had got wet from the rain and I was doing around 80 - 100k over them where beach turned right. Can't remember the crash but remember trying to pick up bike and not understanding why I did not have the power to do so. Got help to get home, got in to bed and told my boys I just needed to sleep it off. Next morning I could not get out of bed so oldest boy (then 16) rang ambulance.

SMOKEU

22nd May 2012, 10:20

Had started raining and I was in a hurry to get back home. There was heaps of rocks on the beach fist size and bigger. They had got wet from the rain and I was doing around 80 - 100k over them where beach turned right. Can't remember the crash but remember trying to pick up bike and not understanding why I did not have the power to do so. Got help to get home, got in to bed and told my boys I just needed to sleep it off. Next morning I could not get out of bed so oldest boy (then 16) rang ambulance.

Do your ribs stick out now? I broke a rib or 2 and it/they didn't heal properly so now it sort of sticks out a bit.

Fast Eddie

22nd May 2012, 10:38

Do your ribs stick out now? I broke a rib or 2 and it/they didn't heal properly so now it sort of sticks out a bit.

yea bro i thrashed out my left side rib cage.. damn near broke em all haha.. but they stick out mad now. cant be fucked having surgery or anything to correct it - think I asked the dr once and he said they would just open you up and cut the ribs in half and turn them around or something so the stick inward not outward - seemed like a kinda moari job haha, they dont bother me too much.

Crasherfromwayback

22nd May 2012, 10:38

But Casey Stoner is definitely buckling to early fatherhood syndrome.

You're kidding yourself!

slofox

22nd May 2012, 11:29

Intact organs fetch a good price

Do they indeed..? Hmmm..y'know, that might just... Now if I could...:devil2:

On second thoughts, I doubt many of my internal organs are worth harvesting after living as I have done all me life...

Tigadee

22nd May 2012, 11:41

On second thoughts, I doubt many of my internal organs are worth harvesting after living as I have done all me life...

Hmmmm, if you're anything like your avatar, I guess you're right...

slofox

22nd May 2012, 11:46

Hmmmm, if you're anything like your avatar, I guess you're right...

:rofl: :killingme: :rofl:

Guess I asked for that, huh?

Cracked me up that did!

eelracing

22nd May 2012, 11:52

You're kidding yourself!

I reckon Bob's onto something...perhaps Adriana's shut up shop until he's retired.

(two weeks ago Stoner categorically denied rumours,suddenly wifey and kid turn up in pits and he's got the fear of impending doom written all over his mug)

Coincidence...????

Crasherfromwayback

22nd May 2012, 12:15

I reckon Bob's onto something...perhaps Adriana's shut up shop until he's retired.

(two weeks ago Stoner categorically denied rumours,suddenly wifey and kid turn up in pits and he's got the fear of impending doom written all over his mug)

Coincidence...????

Two weeks ago Stoner hadn't 100% made up his mind. He certainly has no reason to lie, expecially as he's announced it now, well before the end of the season.

I think he'd like to retire still in possesion of the number 1 plate, so I think he was smart enough to know he was beaten last weekend, and simply got some safe points instead of throwing it down the road.

He'll be back. Gonna be a great season of racing between him and Lorenzo I reckon. Be great if it came down to the wire.

avgas

22nd May 2012, 14:40

Good on Stoner for not being a moron.

There are no dead heroes. Only graves.

It takes a bigger man to give up stuff for their kids.

Road kill

22nd May 2012, 16:45

My Daughter was 8 years old when I had my big off,and a nurse let her into the room as the Doc was busy sewing up a rather large hole in my elbow.
The look on her face made me feel really shite for putting her through that.
After that I did stay off bikes for around two years but in the end I couldn't help myself an got back into it,just swore to be more carefull about it.
Much to the disgust of my grandkids, today I won't carry pillions,I figure they can find their own way of killing themselves,,,,an their mum agrees.

Quasi

22nd May 2012, 17:10

I always leave home on my bike with the thought in my head, that I also want to return on it.

Crasherfromwayback

22nd May 2012, 17:15

I always leave home on my bike with the thought in my head, that I also want to return on it.

Sure beats walking home!

avgas

22nd May 2012, 17:17

I always leave home on my bike with the thought in my head, that I also want to return on it.
Funny you mention that.
Friend of mine could not slow down on his bike, wife taped a picture of her and the daughter on there and now he barely speeds.

Sometimes we need to cash up one of those reality cheques.

tbs

22nd May 2012, 17:57

Crasherfromwayback

22nd May 2012, 18:05

if I was just being selfish buying a bike, and certain people have laid it on thick that I am, but boy I do love riding!

Tell them to get fucked. Far more selfish of them to try to get you to give something you love away.

Berries

22nd May 2012, 23:23

Since having kid(s), do you find you are more cautious whilst riding your bike?
Two kids in the last five years. The fact I have slowed down and don't take as many risks as I used to is partly licence preservation, as in I need a decent job now to keep them in Barbie dolls and catapults, but mainly an age thing. Mine not theirs. I try not to think about them when riding, I'd miss something important like a red light.

Tell them to get fucked. Far more selfish of them to try to get you to give something you love away.
Been told I can use my own money to buy a new one in spring.:laugh::laugh:

Just got to get it in writing.

GrayWolf

23rd May 2012, 11:43

I started riding about 2 months before my second child was born. I've been as cautious as I can short of not actually riding. Been to Pro-rider, been to SASS, been to track days to learn how to handle it. I can't say my wife was really happy about the bike, but it definitely shortens my commute, so she sees more of me. I've spent a lot of time wondering if I was just being selfish buying a bike, and certain people have laid it on thick that I am, but boy I do love riding!

Its a difficult 'thing' to balance.. when I married my wife (age 21) I simply said I ride a bike and I will not stop. We discussed it and she knew I would be an even more grumpy bastard without a bike. I can be in the shittiest mood imaginable but after 15 mins riding it melts away. Still does after almost 40yrs of it. She always had a car we made sure of that. Sometimes all I could afford was a S/hand 250, but I was still riding.
I dont know if it can be called selfish, but if the bike is a 'mental panacea' then why would you give it up. The throttle grip works in 2 directions, faster/slower.. as long as we remember this we 'should' survive till old age when as like Slofox, the kids would benifit if I shuttled off the mortal coil.

And lets be honest if you married it, or sired it... it's gonna cost you shitloads over the years :laugh::laugh:

Tigadee

23rd May 2012, 11:52

I think he'd like to retire still in possesion of the number 1 plate, so I think he was smart enough to know he was beaten last weekend, and simply got some safe points instead of throwing it down the road.

He'll be back. Gonna be a great season of racing between him and Lorenzo I reckon. Be great if it came down to the wire.

:yes: Why not retire while at the peak of one's career? Schumacher did it, and so did Michael Jordan.

Even if they did come back to the game eventually, at least they gave plenty of time to their family. And besides, if anything happened to them, at least their family will be well looked after. Most of us don't have that luxury of plenty of cash to leave the spouse and kids...

SimJen

23rd May 2012, 11:55

:yes: Why not retire while at the peak of one's career? Schumacher did it, and so did Michael Jordan.

Even if they did come back to the game eventually, at least they gave plenty of time to their family. And besides, if anything happened to them, at least their family will be well looked after. Most of us don't have that luxury of plenty of cash to leave the spouse and kids...

my wife will have plenty due to life insurance. She can pay of the mortgage and live for 5 years on it! Doesn't cost a huge amount but at least I know they'll be comfortable if something did happen.......more comfortable than now!!! hope she doesn't get any ideas!

Tigadee

23rd May 2012, 13:20

my wife will have plenty due to life insurance. She can pay of the mortgage and live for 5 years on it! Doesn't cost a huge amount but at least I know they'll be comfortable if something did happen.......more comfortable than now!!!

I'm thinking about that now... Does being a motorcyclist influence the policy terms/premium? And which life insurer are you with?

SimJen

23rd May 2012, 13:32

I'm thinking about that now... Does being a motorcyclist influence the policy terms/premium? And which life insurer are you with?
no didn't influence it at all. If I was a smoker it would.
I think the policy is with Asteron.
General rule of thumb is to get enough cover to pay off your mortgage and allow the wife/kids to live for 5 years without working (especially useful if you have little ones). Mine would allow her to live mortgage free for 5 years getting $50k a year! Cruisy!
I've also got income protection cover with the same crowd and am able to claim the tax portion back on my tax return.

Tigadee

23rd May 2012, 13:55

Cheers for that info...

Of course, having that insurance doesn't mean I'll ride like a hoon all the time...

tbs

23rd May 2012, 15:13

Tell them to get fucked. Far more selfish of them to try to get you to give something you love away.

Can't really say that to my Mum.

Let's not forget that I had never ridden until that point. I wasn't coming back to it or being told to give up something I loved. My wanting to get the bike and open myself up to the risks (real and assumed) was the big game changer.

b.

Tigadee

23rd May 2012, 15:54

Let's not forget that I had never ridden until that point. I wasn't coming back to it or being told to give up something I loved. My wanting to get the bike and open myself up to the risks (real and assumed) was the big game changer.

Can totally identify with that...

Swoop

23rd May 2012, 16:21

I always leave home on my bike with the thought in my head, that I also want to return on it.
I guess a GSXR isn't for you then. (you can find one in most corners of the coro loop):rofl:

Maha

23rd May 2012, 16:44

I guess a GSXR isn't for you then. (you can find one in most corners of the coro loop):rofl:

...and the odd tree.

Number One

23rd May 2012, 18:08

My riding changed. The unnecessary urgency in traffic has gone completely. I only ever had 'moments' when other traffic was around. Now I just chill and hang back a bit more...not surprisingly my in traffic woes disappeared.

I also find I'm a little nervous when hubby and I are two up (reality of only having one bike) and I've been pillioning with him for much longer than we've been all sprogged up with no issues before sprog!

Tell them to get fucked. Far more selfish of them to try to get you to give something you love away.

Same story for mums? I'm a little in agreement with the selfish angle. Working full time means not much time with the family. Then if it's a sunny day riding the bike properly is an all day affair! As they can't come along it FEELS very selfish. My son told me he hates my bike :( anyways all good. It's just time to take it to the dirt! A whole days riding together is NOT selfish :sunny:

DMNTD

23rd May 2012, 21:16

I guess a GSXR isn't for you then. (you can find one in most corners of the coro loop):rofl:

There's a certain area up Norf that has even got its own "G Spot" due to the amount of Gixxers that been bent.
Last count was either 3 or 4 within about 400m :confused: