My Dirt Bike is a Metaphor for (Your) Life

I bought a dirt bike this year after saving up for a while. My son has been riding since he was pretty young and has been anxiously waiting for the day we could both ride together. We eventually landed on a 2001 Suzuki RM125. A 2-stroke, specifically because we wanted a simpler engine we could learn to work on together. Neither of us had a lot of experience working on engines, and that was kind of…