Money well spent, and don't tell him.
I used to follow my daughter when she rode a motorcycle. Finally got busted
when the damned thing broke down and I had to stop and help her. As a guy
who started driving Motorcycles when he was fifteen and never quit I have a
few things to say to people who buy road motorcycles for their kids: Driver
safety class; very good helmet, good jacket and pants (preferably leather
but Kevlar-reinforced ballistic cloth is okay), very good gloves, back
armor, advanced driving class. If you're not willing to do all that, then
don't get them a bike.
First time you catch them not using all the gear, take the bike away.
If I had my way they'd be wearing a helmet in the car too, but I'm just
chicken when it comes to my daughters. They scare the crap out of me, and
they've never done a fraction of the lunatic things I did. But then again,
many of my old motorcycle buddies are dead.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-fot@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net] On Behalf
Of rob
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 4:27 PM
To: FOT
Subject: no lbc young drivers
Hi Folks just thought i would throw this out . My kid will be driving to
school next fall,and i anixous as heck about it We all know there brains
arn't developed yet I am hopping he will understand just how hard it can be
to get a car back under control after you have lost it
Any way for a 100 bucks Davis instruments sells a chip to plug into the
cars
OBD11 port and records up to 300 hours of data >>throitle postison hard
breaking hard excelleration, speed every 5 seconds Its all layed out on
graphs We live just south of Boston and many of the roads are twisty narrow
hilly
and lined with stone walls I am just hopping he is lucky as i was but now
I
will be able see just how hes doing He can't unplug it but with me finding
out now i have to decide if i tellem about it or not ethics terrific
subject rob
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