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No Parking Zone! => Off Topic, Off Colour, and non-motorcycle related => Topic started by: spanner on February 13, 2015, 08:26:49 AM

Title: proud daddy moment - 7 year old changing break pads
Post by: spanner on February 13, 2015, 08:26:49 AM
My 7 year old changing the rear break pads.
Title: Re: proud daddy moment - 7 year old changing break pads
Post by: spanner on February 13, 2015, 08:27:49 AM
😀
Title: Re: proud daddy moment - 7 year old changing break pads
Post by: Biggles on February 13, 2015, 08:30:51 AM
What a great way to bring up a kid!  Getting his hands dirty on a motorbike.

Can he do front ones too?  I don't mind doing my own rears, but he can come over and do my fronts this weekend if he's not booked out already.      :thumbs
Title: Re: proud daddy moment - 7 year old changing break pads
Post by: Brock on February 13, 2015, 08:50:18 AM
When my Son was three, I caught him climbing up the front of the Falcon into the engine bay with a large screw driver in hand. All he had to say was "Fix Daddy fix".....


If a seven year old can change brake pads on the ST, then anyone can.....
Title: Re: proud daddy moment - 7 year old changing break pads
Post by: Biggles on February 13, 2015, 10:29:20 AM
My father had a Whippet (Brock would remember them).

My contribution (at around 2 or 3 yo) to its maintenance was to stick the tine of a file in its radiator fins.
I seem to recall my effort was excess to requirements at the time...
Title: Re: proud daddy moment - 7 year old changing break pads
Post by: Brock on February 13, 2015, 11:46:43 AM
I had to look it up. May have seen one as a Kid in Puckapunyal, but not sure.

The only whippet I recal has 4 legs, and it probably like being filed either
Title: Re: proud daddy moment - 7 year old changing break pads
Post by: Biggles on February 13, 2015, 12:05:47 PM
I had to look it up. May have seen one as a Kid in Puckapunyal, but not sure.

There's one in the Panorama Museum at Roadvale near Boonah.
Any riders in the area, I can recommend it for its huge collection of "everything" including quite a lot of old m/cs.