Here's a great story from Sean Blankert.

Safe riding is no Accident
The first time I rode a motorcycle was when I was 12 years old. A younger friend of mine, Glen, who was the closest neighbor to us in the Sandia mountains of New Mexico where I grew up, had parents who rode motorcycles. They bought him and his sister Dina Honda 150 dirt bikes, and Dina never rode hers. Somehow Glen conned me into hopping on his sister's bike, telling me that first gear was one down,...