As everything in our life, I feel like riding bikes (of just about every kind) has always been part of our lives. Early on Travis had always had a street bike of some sort, from a Dyna wide glide, to a stretched Texas Chopper with a suction cup fender seat for me, which soon branched into dirt bikes. He did a lot of trail riding with his best friend up in the mountains near our home. Rode a real monster of a bike at first, a Kawasaki KLX650R. But then came to me begging me for a new bike, his reasoning? He claimed the KLX was better suited for military excursions in his opinion... Personally, I think he really just wanted a push button starter, LOL! Knowing I could not convince him otherwise, he ended up buying a new KTM 450MXC which he eventually turned into a 525.

 

A few years down the line, our son Cole was born. Just a little side note and thanks to an old little league Coach, he no longer really goes by Cole, everyone calls him by his nickname, "Roscoe".

 

Roscoe was pretty much born into a life of toys. From boats to bikes to all the in between, he seemed to love toys just as much as his dad and I did. When he would cry as a baby Travis found out that if he took him out to the garage, started up his KTM, all Roscoe wanted to do was sit on the tank, grab the throttle and rev the engine. Poof! no more tears! We really got a kick out of that, and ultimately we knew where this was all headed... 

 

It wasn't more than a little over a year before we purchased him an electric mini chopper that sat in the living room until he was old enough to ride on our laps around the neighborhood. But that wasn't gonna cut it and Dad was not stopping there. He was convinced we needed to pull the trigger and buy Roscoe his first real dirt bike. Keep in mind, this kid was barely walking at this time. Well, I lost that argument and soon we were introducing our kid to a brand new Honda 50 on his 2nd birthday. He was riding it with training wheels at 3 and begged us to get rid of them by age 4. 

 

I did have a bike for a brief moment, (Honda 150) but really I left the riding to the boys and their buddies while I stayed back at the weekend warrior travel trailer and made up camp and margaritas most weekends. We spent many a weekends camping and trail riding with friends. 

 

Roscoe went through a few bikes growing up, including a 2 stroke KTM 65, before landing on the Yamaha YZ250F that he has today. Between the 65 and the Yamaha 250 he took a number of years off of riding to play travel baseball, but in the end he has come full circle back to fill his love of riding. Not too long ago he added a Kawasaki 110 to the mix and enjoys racing it out at Sac Race way with his track buddies.

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