So … the story begins where the young Jedi texted me and told me that he wanted to learn to ride a motorcycle. No experience with a bike with a hand clutch. Rode a mini dirt bike once with a centrifugal clutch. OK. I accepted the challenge.
Before we graduated to the X-Pro 125cc Four Stroke 4 speed motorcycle, I had him negotiate my neighborhood, the end of my street with the Avalon 26″ Mountain electric bike conversion.
Next was the MotoTec 2 stroke 49cc Mini Bike. That one is a hoot to ride. Lots of fun. This was followed by the electric MotoTec 36 volt 500 watt pocket bike.
Finally, we rolled out the X-Pro 125 and went through the basics before I fired it up and let him take the controls after a ride around the school where he rode alongside me on the e-Bike. That was going to do the lion’s share of training.
We had a technical problem with the drone. My DJI Spark decided to drop the RC connection on our first run down the street. Naturally, the drone was active tracking Roger until it lost signal with the RC. My display went dark and I figured that it would try to come back with Return to Home. There were trees in the way as it attempted to ascend to 98 ft and fly back. It met some branches on the way up and went into weed-whacker mode. Thank God it didn’t bring the drone down. Eventually, it cleared the trees and I got a visual and I landed. End of drone shots for the day. I had a close call with branches using Active Tracking with the Mavic Air 2S at the park recently as well.
It was handy to have my 24″ Schwinn mountain e-Bike conversion to first have Roger ride alongside as I rode the X-Pro through the neighborhood. I forgot to mount one of my GoPro Session cameras or the DJI Osmo Action camera on either bike so there is no video footage of Roger manning the X-Pro 125.
After popping a little wheelie due to letting that clutch go with a little throttle, that spooked him a bit and gave him some respect for the machine. Roger made quite a few passes down my street before we went around the school and then all the way down to my friends’ house on the other side of my big tract. A few stalls with the clutch and some effort to find Neutral and the green light but he got it. Roger got the hang of the Honda clone 125 and on the ride back to my place, I was full throttle on the e-Bike to keep up. As Master Yoda might say, “The young Jedi learning he is …. yes” ~ William Flying39
