Let’s get the obvious things out of the way first. Now let’s delve a little deeper and look at the pros and cons. So ever since that day, I’ve been a real fence-sitter on the subject of wheelies. It was probably some of the worst riding I had ever seen on a public road and it clearly put my family and kids in danger… but who was I to pass judgment? I’d done some pretty heinous things on bikes in my youth and there was a certain punkish, Mad Max vibe about the whole thing that was undeniably impressive. Image via Īs a passionate rider and moto advocate, I was properly torn. Instantly, about a dozen other bikes appeared on the scene, righted the damaged bike and its rider, and roared off across the bridge with the same lightning timing that they’d turned up. Next thing I knew, I had the bike cartwheel past the car and come to a grinding halt on the road ahead. With the words “WHAT THE…” in my throat but not yet made into sounds, I stared in horror as the bike’s trajectory crossed up and things started to go very, very wrong. Imagine my slo-mo surprise as I watched the bike’s front wheel rise up to reveal a set of exhaust pipes and a sump. Hearing a roar from behind us, I checked my mirrors where I spied a motorcycle lane splitting through the traffic behind me. Driving on the wrong side of the road with three kids in the backseat and my better half in the front, we sat in traffic waiting to cross the Golden Gate bridge. Much more my type of city, we immersed ourselves by hiring a car and seeing some sights. After we’d spent way too much money on great rides and sugary American junk food, we drove north to San Francisco. In 2016 I took my young Aussie family to Disneyland in California.
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