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Motocross Practice as a Honeymoon Warm-up

posted on 2010-03-22 - amd.im/6Ngc

I don’t know how many people have heard, but we’re planning on doing a motorcycle tour of some of the temples around Angkor Wat while in Cambodia during the honeymoon. That all sounds fine and good until one realizes that I have never ridden anything faster than a 150cc scooter and Naomi has never driven anything with a clutch, much less a motorcycle. With that in mind we set off to Livermore with David and his family and a dirt bike borrowed from a 13 year old girl.

After some prep and a few minutes of lessons from David, Naomi took off first. Well… “took off” might be a little strong, she did not exactly launch out of the gate, but after a few laps around an empty parking lot she was really moving and by the end of the day she was getting a micro-second or two of airtime off the jumps on the beginner track!

It was my turn next and I think I fared fairly well. Definitely somewhere between a toddler and Ricky Carmichael. Tanya also took a spin on the bike and did great save for one incident.

All in all we had a great time. Even the girls had fun, though were not all that interested in the motorcycles.

Thanks to David for the instructions and gear and sourcing the bike and thanks to Alex for taking a bunch of the photos while we were tooling around with the bike.