It’s Faster!

Yesterday turned out to be a pretty big day, but a little background first.

Some friends of ours over the course of the last 9 months got divorced. Their daughters (Willa & Norah) are good friends with our girls, and now that their dad lives closer to us, we’ve had more opportunities to play together. Yesterday was such a day.

They knew we got some dirt bikes, and really wanted to come over and try them.

Willa (she’s 9) took to it pretty quickly. Here she is on the Honda riding around with Lauren on the Suzuki.

By the way, our yard is obviously going to be a complete mess this year.

Norah took more guidance and support, but appeared to really like it. She kept asking to try again and again.

Then Abigail got on and took to racing with Willa. You could see each one trying to hold the throttle open longer and taking the corners faster each time. They went all over the yard in all kinds of different configurations. Meanwhile the other kids (our neighbor Robby included) were zipping around on the electric vehicles and bikes and what-not. We thought for sure a catastrophe was imminent, but made it through the day with only a single crash between Willa and Abigail. Both were fine, but the fender on the Suzuki didn’t fare so well.

The Suzuki is definitely faster with the 1/32″ change I made to the restrictor plate. Abigail had no problem getting up any of the hills in the yard. Whether it’s faster than the Honda and it’s current performance tune I couldn’t tell, but it’s certainly zippy enough now. At this point niether bike will get faster until the girls reliably use the brakes to slow down and stop.

After a bunch of morning riding/playing the girls decided to head to the park to play and have a picnic lunch.

Lunch was awesome with sandwiches and Victory root beer.

Then some swing time.

And back to the house to play with the Wubble Ball.

But Willa couldn’t get enough of the dirt bike and jumped back on for some more hot laps. Abigail too took the opportunity to rip around again.

It even started to rain, but they kept going. It wasn’t until the lightening and thunder got too close, that we pulled them in for the day.

As I said, a big day. All had fun and probably slept very well that night.

Needless to say I see a few dirt bikes in Chris’s garage soon.

– b