That's it... I give up!

[Millietant]

Don't give up, unless you are certain you'll have no regrets.

Liz and I both kept our bikes when the kids came along and were growing up.

As soon as they were able, we took them with us on rides (even two-week continental tours) and we got then off-road bikes.

When our youngest was 10 he did his first Nurburgring laps as my pillion - a lot of people said I was crazy (usually after we'd flown past them), but you can't wrap either yourself, or your kids in cotton wool and stop living.

Do I have regrets - not many - we managed to keep doing what we enjoyed and then found our kids enjoyed doing the same things.

My only advice would be to always and continuously, assess the risks and act accordingly. The benefit of what we did is that we now have kids (20yrs & 25yrs old) who love spending time with us and who ride/drive with us ( and not like lunatics). On bikes they know that the track is the only place to speed, and that the road is a place to be alert and wary.

Hopefully nothing bad ever happens to them (or us) - but they're the risks we take to "live", rather than just "survive".

Cool kids eh -  (Oh bugger, first two pics are massive scale,  don't know why !!)