Most little boys love to ride their bikes and play in the dirt.

Casey Hinson was no different. Well, except for the fact that while most

4-year-olds were trying to negotiate a tricycle or training wheels, he was already squeezing the throttle of a motorcycle.

It was his fourth Christmas when his father bought him his first motorcycle. Most boys his age got a three-wheeler with multi-colored plastic tassels and a bell on the handlebars, but Hinson's father Mike wheeled out a Yamaha PW-50 from under the Christmas tree.

He remembered his son's initial reaction, when the motorcycle was given with training wheels and a helmet.

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