I'm a motorbike.

[Skyryder]

Some kids can be charmers. You usually spot the future bikers when they look at you when travelling behind the car they are in. But there is also the other parent too.

Some time ago I was behind a SUV with mum driving the kids somewhere. I was just tagging behind and the kids were kneeling on their seats looking at me and waving. They should have been belted up. This was on Anzc Drive. Anway come to the red light and I pull up on the outside land and Mum lets rip and belts one of the kids for something. She had the drivers window down so I could hear that all was not well with her. Anyways I flip up my lid and call out "that's the way I was treated when I was there age.............now look at me." 'Bout the only time I wanted the Harley and tatts image. If looks could kill I'd be dead meat. Now if she had had her kids belted up in the first place they would not have been able to turn round and see me.

Skyryder

[jazbug5]

Every time I go round my sister's, my 2 year old nephew HAS to be sat on the bike. About three times per visit: getting him off is like trying to prise a limpet off a rock*. Puts on this 'I'm a mean, serious biker' face and hunkers down... my niece (12) is going to pillion soon and she is ridiculously excited about the whole thing. I'm forbidden to allow any other kids in the neighbourhood to sit on 'her' seat, or let them try on my helmet.

*he freaks out when I start her up, though- he hates the noise and bursts into tears..!

[Edbear]

Am I alone, or do others also want to regress into their childhood every now and then?

Yep! Just as soon as I've grown up!

[bobsmith]

stopped to let a boy and his mum [i think?] cross while in feilding. boy actually tried to stop in the middle of the road cos he couldnt take his eyes off me, lmfao.

Had the same thing here in Palmy, the mother had to virtually drag her two kids across the crossing... This was the first week I had my bike (before my fall backwards off a wheelie) and I was still clumsy with the clutch, anyhow, I pulled a big wheelie (unintentional) off the crossing and I'm sure I heard the kids scream in joy... The mother must have thought I was cool or must have really hated me for being a bad influence.

Oh for the record, I hate kids...

[The Pastor]

As we were leaving on the bike I waved goodbye to the boy and he looked so excited, as if it was the best thing in his day that a person on a bike was waving at him.

I'd get excited too, If a hot chick in leather waved at me

I've only ever had good reactions from parents and their kids when I've been wearing my gears.* Just interested in whether anyone else has had similar experiences. Or perhaps completely different ones?

Yeah me too... I kinda want people to aviod me and say "look at that bad ass biker - get into the car quick", Once i was standing in line at maccas dressed in full leather, when an old lady and 2 5-7 year old boys pushed in front of me...

[limbimtimwim]

I love it, as others have commented, when kids turn around and just STARE at your out the back of the family wagon. It's funny. I usally give them a girlie finger wave.

Or the slightly older type staring out the back of the school bus giving you the glad eye. If only you could see how ugly I am.

[Wasp]

we had a young kid (5 mabye less?) come up and pat our bikes while we were parked in cuba mall tonight, kinda scared he might touch further down the exhaust though...

i also get alot of people turning and looking and i always remember to wave to the little kids because they are tommorows cage drivers and im hoping they'll have some respect.

[Mr. Peanut]

When I had my SJ125 (read - behemoth scooter) these two kids were argueing over whether or not it was a motorbike or a scooter - I just looked at em and said "Both."



And rode off.

Love kids tho, when I was a kid I always used to wave to bikes, esp on the motorway when you could do it like 60 bazillion times as the traffic sped up and slowed down.

[NhuanH]

* Apart from when I was at Mission Bay one Sunday afternoon with Aff, and I could practically hear all the mothers thinking, "Well! I hope MY daughter doesn't turn out like THAT!"

They were all hoping their daughters would learn the lesson and avoid skinny ass, woolly-haired type fellas.

[Big Dave]

* Apart from when I was at Mission Bay one Sunday afternoon with Aff, and I could practically hear all the mothers thinking, "Well! I hope MY daughter doesn't turn out like THAT!"

Both our (now) adult kids are clean cut, well groomed and not a tattoo or piercing between them - I wonder where I failed sometimes

[Motu]

Both our (now) adult kids are clean cut, well groomed and not a tattoo or piercing between them - I wonder where I failed sometimes

Me too - both my daughters have ended up with guys who are sooooo straight,I feel it's almost a reaction against their parents.Although one daughter asked if I could get some of my old friends together to sort something out for her,she must think a bunch of 50 somethings look imtimidating....

[kickingzebra]

You 50 somethings are the economic powerhouses of NZ... I'd be intimidated!!

[dawnrazor]

always fun to freak out kids in the backs of cars, by doing stoppies right up to the back windscreen!!!!!!

[Colapop]

There's a guy that rides past work at about the same time each day as I get dropped off - he looks at me strangely when I jump up and down and point excitedly....

[Biff]

I was sat at a set of traffic lights a month or so ago, lights turn green so I pull off at a relatively sedate pace. A couple of kids of about 10 years old at the side the road yelled, "pull a wheelie". I didn't . So one of them called me a "gay wanker".

Must be because I ride a Honda.