My boy's 16months old and always gets extra excited when I come rolling in the the driveway on the bike....so today I gave him a little ride on the gas tank just up the driveway and he loved it. Can't wait for a few more years to build him a bad *** mini-bike!

 

ahhh, the joys of fatherhood... I hope he had a helmet !

 

Well he had his bob the builder hard hat on, is that good enough???

Now I started thinking......maybe I should get him to hate the bike so I don't find the bike missing when he get's to his teenage years.

 

teenage years hell!! better keep an eye on that thing tonight! he got the fever!

 

Nope, not gonna happen...your screwed! lol. When I got my first bike last summer my boy (8 years old at the time) started going for slow rides with me around town. At the time he wore a bicycle helmet. Had to buy him the real thing though earlier this year because we now roll the open road together. It's a great thing. You startin' at 16 months? Yeah...he'll be breakin' the engine down, cleaning it, and putting it back together by the time he's 8 years old!

 

Yeah, i'm scared he'll end up like me...........my dad did the same thing with me when i was kid, and I always watched him use his tools. I built my first minibike by myself with a snowblower engine that I welded onto a bmx frame when I was 10.......it was almost a success except I didn't realize steel didn't weld to aluminum very well, the motor fell off after about 15 minutes, and boy was my dad pissed when he saw what I did to the snowblower!!! And my dad has vowed to teach him about all the bad things i did as kid to get back at me.