Some Of The Gear, All Of The Time

It's a funny thing --- you can spend as much on safety gear for a motorcycle as you can for the bike itself. Of course, having paid $400 for a Honda Rebel once, I already knew that.

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And we still don't have pants! That will be next, I suspect. Of course, now that he has all this stuff he didn't even come close to crashing. We had a very amusing conversation on the way to the store to buy his helmet and whatnot:

"Daddy, one of the boys in another grade has a four-wheeler."

"Oh, really? How did you find out?"

"He told me."

"Just out of nowhere? He told you he had a four-wheeler?"

"Well..."

"Did you tell him you had a motorcycle?"

"I told some of my friends three times!"