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My Experience With A Bicycle

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I was seven years old, playing on my chalk board in my room when my dad came in and told me he had a surprise for me outside. Baffled and excited as to what it could be I wasted no time and ran outside. Was it an animal? A toy jeep? Or even a bicycle maybe? I had no idea. I got outside and I did not see anything. “What is it daddy?!” He just smiled and went around the corner. My mom came outside smiling as well. I was bursting with anticipation and wonder; I could not wait to see what it was. Finally, he came around the corner. “A bicycle!!” I screamed. He said “no, a dirt bike!” Confused to why it looked like a bicycle and why it had training wheels I wondered why he called it that. I had never even heard of the word dirt bike at seven …show more content…

I got up and tried again. I got better and better and I rode that dirt bike every single day after school. Eventually, I outgrew that dirt bike and we sold it and got a bigger one. My love for dirt bikes continued and I started going to tracks and racing. I was always one out of two girls that would race against the boys. I was intimidated at first and did not know how I was going to beat them because they were boys. My daddy did not let that stay in my mind too long. “You can do anything a boy can, Hannah. If not better, if you put your mind to it.” my parents always told me. My first race I came in fifth place out of twenty-five boys and one girl. I even got my first trophy! So excited I felt like I accomplished the world. I was hooked. And I never wanted to let go. At sixteen, I had a the worst wreck of my dirt bike experience. My dad had just put air in my back tire and I took of riding down a dirt road by my house. Out of nowhere, somehow I lost control and the next thing I knew I was laying on the ground. My dirt bike was about eight feet away from me. My helmet was broke, I was bleeding, I was in pain, my dirt bike was scratched up and bent, and I did not know what had happened. I had no phone at the time, and I was a good ways from my house. I had no choice but to get back on my dirt bike and ride back home. When I got there I ran inside crying, screaming bloody murder. My parents were freaking out. I had road rash really bad and if I

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