MOTO X | My dad is a dream crusher.. What should I do to be successful and KEEP pursuing?

Darion Joh

I have ALWAYS wanted to be a professional Motocross / Supercross racer ever since I was 3 years old. I would start riding my bike as if I was a racer. For Christmas I got a Dirtbike when I was 8 years old, Best feeling EVER. I never touched my Bmx bike or my Skateboard. I was defiantly going to go far in the sport. I was getting around to jumps and speeds. Then after only a good 3-4 weeks of me riding, My dad got on my dirtbike and rode it to the air-pump on a flat tire and completely shredded the inner-tube on the back tire. Now its been seven years and I can't take this. Its PISSING ME THE HECK OFF. I have 2 A's a B and failing algebra, that I am bringing up. He completely ignores any good grades I bring home, and finds something to flip on me about. For years he has blamed the dirtbike on me, and said "You have no one to be disappointed in but yourself." Which to me sounds Idiotic considering he broke it, and just left my most prized possession sitting there for 7 years. We watch Supercross EVERY week, EVERY time it comes on, then when I mention my dirtbike, he gets all defensive, trying to make it seem like its my fault that its broken. Even though I watched him SHRED the back inner-tube apart. He keeps telling me to get straight A's and I got really close but I have to bring up my math grade, Even when I was home schooled last year and did outstanding, he never even mentioned fixing or replacing my dirtbike. School is not the same as it was for him in the late 70s.. I wish he would understand. Iv'e been offered weed, dip, shrooms, and a blunt, which makes me really uncomfortable at my school. Many are use to firing guns at my school since the majority hunts bucks and other animals. It's cool when you home but not to bring bullets and shells to school. He just doesn't understand. I'm starting to feel depressed, over this bull crap. I CAN NOT see my self doing anything else than racing Supercross and Motocross. That's what I'm made for. I started to get into Bmx and Skateboarding, and got really good at both, to try and take my mind of of my dirtbike. Just as I started to get in contact with sponsors, my dad shuts it down, and said I can't talk to any sponsors at all. I get ABSOLUTELY NO support from him other than him getting me a Bmx bike only after I got made fun of for bringing my old one to a Skatepark. If it really takes his only son to be made fun of, for him to get me a new bmx bike, he could care less about my future career. I just can't see me as a professional racer with him apart of the picture. He is like a road block that follows me. Just waiting to shut me down at a moments notice. I'm 15 years old going on 16, I NEED to start riding before I'm 18, just to start earlier within that age range, or else it will be almost impossible to get my body used to the workouts, the training and straight up going fast. It's like I'm slowly going into a meltdown, that's hard for my parents to see. Any advise? Please help, I feel stuck.. What I say, What I know is, There's no point in me living if I can't race....

Answer
You are mentally screwing yourself. You have a lot of negatives going on and it is bringing you down mentally. Don't think in the negative. Change your mind to improvise, adapt and overcome. Instead of looking at what isn't going right, look at what you can do to make it go right.

Talk to the kids in class that get the math that you are not getting. Have them sit down with you and explain it. Sometimes it takes someone else to explain something to you, so you will understand it. Example: Someone can explain to you how to throw a free throw. Cup the ball with your support hand, bend at the knees, keep the ball straight and push the ball with your shooting hand. You don't make it. Then another coach comes up and tells you basically the same thing, but that you need to keep the ball lined up with your chin (straight). Now you make the shot. Same lesson, different teacher.

When you talk about school, you need to read the book: The deliberate dumbing down of America. Here is a free PDF of the book: http://deliberatedumbingdown.com/
This is the reason you are doing bad in Algebra. Public school is now meant to confuse. It is teaching theory instead of the basics. Rout learning has been removed. They don't teach kids to be euntrapanuers, they teach them to be assembly workers. It is indoctrination. You spew back what the teacher wants - whether it is right or wrong - just spew back what they want to hear. Math is now a joke. Imaginary numbers, no more long division, etc. it is all concepts, theories, exploration and explanation....ok, back to racing.
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If you lived near me, I would get your bike up and running for free and teach you how to maintain it - I live near Chicago, IL.

First things first. The bike is not running. Get some money together to fix it yourself. You cannot afford shop time (over $100 an hour), you need to learn to maintain and fix your bike yourself.

You need to save up some money, from odd jobs, birthdays, Christmas, etc. Use that money to buy parts and a shop manual for your bike. Watch YouTube videos on how to fix what needs to be fixed. After you fix the rear tire (you can find used ones on Ebay, Craigslist, flea markets and yard sales). You will need to drain the gas tank, clean the carb, clean the fuel petcock and put in a new spark plug.

Maybe your dad doesn't have mechanical skills and doesn't want you to find out. Maybe he is embarrassed. Stop asking him for help and do it yourself. It is obvious you are not going to get the support you think you need from home. You are going to have to take your own initiative and get what you want for yourself. This is actually a valuable lesson. No one and I mean no one, on this earth is ever going to hand you what you want. You have to go and get what you want yourself.

After you get the manual, get the parts and get stuff up and running again, you should tell your dad "thank you" for teaching me how to be independent and self sufficient. Then show him what you did, what you learned and how you did what you did. Dad's love their children and to even suggest that he taught you something, by not teaching you, will make him happy.

Generic Trigger SM Owners (or people familiar): A few questions please?

geoffrey.m

So I've just got my Generic Trigger SM50 yesterday and, like a little kid at Christmas, am very exited. My CBT is on monday so hopefully I can get that over and done with and jump on my bike.

However, I have a few questions.
1. Where did you put your front L plate? I've got my back one on okay attached to the rear number plate, but just don't know where to put the front one. I'M NOT TOO KEEN ON TRIMMING IT but I guess I might just have to if need be.
2. Did you manage to get a proper owners manual with your bike? As we never got a manual with ours (since the only one available was poorly translated. We did download it just now however and we agree)

I have a few more but my Dad insists he knows them so I'll leave them to another day :)
thanks for any questions in advance.

Answer
if all else fails you should call or ask your state DMV about your states' laws regarding license plate placement

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