New Blood
In a few posts back, I showed a picture of a Suzuki GT 185 and talked about Michelle's Trail 90. I was browsing through my Google photos and found a picture of our nephew with that same Trail 90 in 2017. He was living with us at the time - he was an intern at my company during his summer break from college.
Since he was a little kid he has been my 'mini me': his Mom would bring him to watch us participate in triathlons and other races. We would stop at his house on our way to some motorcycle adventure and I would take him for a ride or, if he was at his grandfathers, we would get the Honda mini-trail out and go exploring. I could tell by his excitement even back then that we had him 'hooked'. So we got him started riding on Michelle's XT250 (our idea of an 'adventure' bike):
In 2018, he accepted a job with the company and he moved to our part of the state. He and his buddy did their first triathlon last year. I built the Cannondale CAAD3 for him when he was a tyke in 2011. It was (again) one of Michelle's old bikes. I changed out many of the old components to new. He is still riding it. Looks pretty good, I think. His buddy is also a co-worker and his bike is the Surly Pacer that I built in 2008.
And here he is with his R11R. Yup, it used to be Michelle's. There is a pattern, for sure. He really looks up to her. Well, literally, down on her. This is on the ferry across Lake Champlain to Ticonderoga. We were coming back from the Vermont MOV rally. He also rode to the RA rally with us that year. For good or bad, he has learned by being sandwiched between us for thousands of miles. He is a good rider and we're proud of him.
The cannonadale and the R11R are from about the same era. Don't the paint jobs look similar? Black/Silver/Mandarin stripes.
In a few posts back, I showed a picture of a Suzuki GT 185 and talked about Michelle's Trail 90. I was browsing through my Google photos and found a picture of our nephew with that same Trail 90 in 2017. He was living with us at the time - he was an intern at my company during his summer break from college.
Since he was a little kid he has been my 'mini me': his Mom would bring him to watch us participate in triathlons and other races. We would stop at his house on our way to some motorcycle adventure and I would take him for a ride or, if he was at his grandfathers, we would get the Honda mini-trail out and go exploring. I could tell by his excitement even back then that we had him 'hooked'. So we got him started riding on Michelle's XT250 (our idea of an 'adventure' bike):
In 2018, he accepted a job with the company and he moved to our part of the state. He and his buddy did their first triathlon last year. I built the Cannondale CAAD3 for him when he was a tyke in 2011. It was (again) one of Michelle's old bikes. I changed out many of the old components to new. He is still riding it. Looks pretty good, I think. His buddy is also a co-worker and his bike is the Surly Pacer that I built in 2008.
And here he is with his R11R. Yup, it used to be Michelle's. There is a pattern, for sure. He really looks up to her. Well, literally, down on her. This is on the ferry across Lake Champlain to Ticonderoga. We were coming back from the Vermont MOV rally. He also rode to the RA rally with us that year. For good or bad, he has learned by being sandwiched between us for thousands of miles. He is a good rider and we're proud of him.
The cannonadale and the R11R are from about the same era. Don't the paint jobs look similar? Black/Silver/Mandarin stripes.