Its not a guilt trip your child is on. Its just hes so innocent and he loves his daddy very much. If you grimace in pain they know it hurts, they far from understand the aspect of crashing I can assure you.
I always say I'm a mum first and biker second. My love of riding is always going to be there. I have always ridden, my son knows no different. I fell off, he too didn't like me being hurt, but hes not an adult, so sees things different. He crashed into a slow driving taxi on Sunday, and found out the hard way of falling off a push bike. He got back on, and it'll be used to explain things when I next fall off..if ever again.
I love riding, but I don't and will not get pulled into the arguement of 'ooo you could brush up on your knee down, cornering blah blah blah bullcrap' off people who don't have kids. Until they have them they don't know how it controls your riding sometimes. Better to calm it down a bit and reallly enjoy what you have than nothing at all.
My bike is my selfish pleasure, and it will always stay that way, even if I have a kid on the way and I go round the block every now and again
