A Mama's Perspective of Motorcycling in the family.

And m- and my thing was, we were, we, we...

Going ahead, we had purchased our first motorcycle.

Um, it was a surprise from her.

Uh, we're gonna talk about that, but we, we decided we were gonna take the course together just in case there would ever be an emergency of one of us, the other one could get the motorcycle to safety.

Um, it was...

We were new in our marriage.

It was something for us to do a weekend.

We both worked a lot at the time.

Um, and it was just so we wouldn't miss each other on the whole weekend of doing things like that, but, um, it was definitely a positive experience, I believe.

So-

I think that-

Your, your first motorcycle purchase was...?

Um, so like he said, um, I was actually really close to Benji.

Um, he was, um, homeroom teacher for four years of high school, and then I babysat for him for years and just became a really great friend of mine.

And so, um, uh, knew Jason loved motorcycles, and so the Christmas, our first Christmas was coming up together.

We'd just gotten married in October, and, um, we had some savings.

We both worked really hard, and we didn’t have any kids.

And, um, I called Benji and I said, "C- is there anyway..." I know he, you don't s- you ...

He likes sport bikes, but he loves Harleys and can you get me a Buell? You don't sell them in your, um, shop, but could you get me one? And he was, like, all in 'cause he loves Santa Claus, and Benji's a...

Remember? He's all about Santa Claus.

Oh, it's all about-

And he was all about surprises and, um, and I, I truly loved his kids like my own.

I would, I would keep them often.

And so, um, so he found this Buell, and, um, he actually brought it over and we surprised you-

Christmas Day