This thread is jokes. How old are you people? 15? I love my mom to, but I couldn't really give a flying F or not if she liked me riding. I'm a grown adult. I guess I'm just really lucky that my mother isn't a helicopter mom. And the fact that she started riding when I moved out and my dad got a bike again. But seriously. I really can't believe the responses in this thread.
Sounds debatable. The OP is considerate and respects the feelings and opinion of a person who loves him. There is nothing immature in that. F the world mentality is what the 15 year old does. To the OP if you want your Mom to relax a bit it will take time for you to prove you are a responsible Rider who values your safety with education and experience. She will never be 100% comfortable.
+1! As a traditional minority myself, my parents will forever play a huge influence in my life. Eventually they will understand as I get older I will not need their approval, but knowing with their blessing, will make my decisions feel more secured. It may take some time and eventually they will understand.
actually my family opposed it too, but i surprised them by buying bike first and then asking for their permission. But it was too late since i had already bought it.
It's your life, go ahead and live it!
Go and do it responsibly in the ways already posted, and make sure she sees you taking your safety as serious as possible. She's your mom, so for her to see you passionate and excited about something, she will eventually deal with it.
My mom is an ER nurse. So you name it, she's seen it, and was on shift when a 16 year old friend of mine killed himself on a dirt bike. My first word was bike and I've been obsessed since I was a kid, so it was no surprise when I first started to brin bikes home. She hated it, didn't want to see me hurt. But, it's been about a decade since I started to ride and now it's just a part of me being me.
I never informed her I was brinig home a bike, it just showed up.
i assume she worries here and there, but she knows I'm a competent rider and doesn't let it get to her... And that jus takes time.
So, just go out and do it responsibly. She will still love ya!
Live the dream people... "The golden years" are today!
I tell my kids to follow their dreams and to fill the chapters of their lives with as much adventure as possible - even if I disagree. (it is their life after all).
Live the dream people... "The golden years" are today!
I tell my kids to follow their dreams and to fill the chapters of their lives with as much adventure as possible - even if I disagree. (it is their life after all).
Sounds debatable. The OP is considerate and respects the feelings and opinion of a person who loves him. There is nothing immature in that. F the world mentality is what the 15 year old does. To the OP if you want your Mom to relax a bit it will take time for you to prove you are a responsible Rider who values your safety with education and experience. She will never be 100% comfortable.
F the world is not the right attitude. Who the hell said that? Learn to read.
So if he buys a shirt but his mommy doesn't like it, should he bring it back? If he brings home a girl that his mommy doesn't like, should he dump her? If his dream car is a 1960's muscle car with no airbags, and his mommy doesn't want him to buy it, should he not get it? Should he look like an idiot and believe in imaginary friends just because his old school mommy does?
If we all did what our mommy's wanted us to, would you call that living? The dude is living on his own and pays his own bills, it's up to him whether or not he gets a bike. I'm sure his mommy hasn't liked every decision he has made, so why does she have to like this one.
...If we all did what our mommy's wanted us to, would you call that living? The dude is living on his own and pays his own bills, it's up to him whether or not he gets a bike. I'm sure his mommy hasn't liked every decision he has made, so why does she have to like this one.
I confess, I've never always done what my Mommy says to do, or not do. But good God, I still have to respect her! I honestly don't understand the disrespect some people have demonstrated. I find it sad, really.
I confess, I've never always done what my Mommy says to do, or not do. But good God, I still have to respect her! I honestly don't understand the disrespect some people have demonstrated. I find it sad, really.
Yes, it is really sad how many jerk offs disrespect their mothers. I will always have the utmost respect for the things my mother had accomplished in her life through hard work and dedication, and...... Not always doing what HER mother liked.
He wants his mother to accept his choices, he's not asking her permission. Why does she have to accept his choice to put his life in danger?
I was trying to say that he can still respect and love her, and ride a motorcycle. He doesn't have to treat her any differently even if she may treat him differently.
Ugh, let me state the obvious answer. Why? Because she had to put up with him while he was growing up. Because she is his mother. And another fairly obvious. If he crashes, guess what, it will be HIS MOTHER sitting beside his hospital bed worrying the heck out of her for his health and well-being. Do you want any more answers? Hope you never crash yourself, but if you do, you'll see who will be one of the first people around your hospital bed.
My mother was also on the don't like bikes fence. I was one of those 5 year olds who went ape whenever he saw a bike so she got used to that. And then when I was 10 my brothers showed up with an Xmas gift in the form of a dirt bike, so she was forced to accept that grudgingly. Then when I was nuts for a street bike at 16 my father helped me purchase it, so she bit her lip then too. When I had my FZR1000 my then 61 year old mother asked me to take her on a VERY high speed run and LOVED it.
I respect and love her too (turned 79 two days ago) but there was never a doubt that I would do what I chose to do. My father never rode but expressed pride in what he saw as an adept at it (never resisted high speed or stunting, even around them) but of course that's illegal so I would never do anything like that now.
Do the right thing, only you, Highflyer, can determine what that is.
Ugh, let me state the obvious answer. Why? Because she had to put up with him while he was growing up. Because she is his mother. And another fairly obvious. If he crashes, guess what, it will be HIS MOTHER sitting beside his hospital bed worrying the heck out of her for his health and well-being. Do you want any more answers? Hope you never crash yourself, but if you do, you'll see who will be one of the first people around your hospital bed.
No crap Sherlock. Did you read what you quoted? None of those are reasons why she HAS to accept him riding a bike. If I choose to ride a bike, there's nothing that says she HAS to accept it. If the OP wants to get a bike, then get one, but not everyone has to like it.
Don't bother debating the merits of safety, or of this or that or whatever nonsensical trivialities exist. The problem is simple: If you let others dictate your life you become prisoner to their will. Do you want to remain a prisoner or do you want to live a life worth living by your definitions and standards?
If they cannot understand your desires because of their cultural need to approve your actions, whose problem is that, yours or theirs?
Choose wisely, for you have but one life to live, and it belongs to you.
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