I have had old BMW motorcycles since the birth of both my children, now 5 and 2.
Will this influence them in their choices of transportation in the future?What lessons would a child learn growing up around vintage vehicles? Will it influence their sense of style? Their mechanical aptitude?
When I am out in the garage, they will pick up a wrench and want to help, but I don't want them to damage the bike, so they have a plastic wrench that they can use. I have not yet sat them down as I worked on the bike, pointing things out, and how they work.
Will it have the opposite effect. Will they want new things and turn their back on things that are old?
I grew up without vintage items and had posters of new exotic cars. Only when I got older did I grow to appreciate the vintage bikes.
I started with a 1974 BMW, the a 1968, the a 1953 and now I lust after a pre-war bike.
As every parent I am concerned about so many other things that may or may not influence my children. I want them to do the right thing at the right time. But I also what them to have a sense of the past, its place then and its influence on today. I think that it will give them a greater view of the world.
