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kids on bikes

  • 14-04-2011 10:59pm
    #1
    seanybiker
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    So after been on bikes for years or at least long enough to know the dangers. If your son/daughter wanted to get a bike when they are old enough, would you be happy with their choice of transport or to worried to leave them on a bike.


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  • #2
    galwaytt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,822 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    seanybiker wrote: »
    So after been on bikes for years or at least long enough to know the dangers. If your son/daughter wanted to get a bike when they are old enough, would you be happy with their choice of transport or to worried to leave them on a bike.

    I'm for training them as soon as they're able, tbh. Both 7 & 10 yr old currently now on a small Honda crosser, and looking at having them on the road as passengers this summer - looking at the footrest issue, as-is.

    Having people come 'green' to motor transport, at 16/17 is way too late imho.

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



  • #3
    seanybiker
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    7 and 10 is pretty cool. Think I was about 9 or 10 when I used to call down to me mate with his monkey bike. Some laugh.
    Footrest issues shouldn't be to bad at that age.
    My brother has my gsxr down in kerry and my nephew is always saying he is gonna rob it sometime the brother isn't around. Ill bate him haha


  • #4
    honeybadger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 869 ✭✭✭honeybadger


    starting them young is a very good thing as iv seen with 2 of me mates kids and neighbours kids aswell, let them have a feild bike or quad as they wil learn mistakes quicker on mucky grass than they will on concreate or asphalt and also know how to do there own matainence aswell ,,but also i have to say it if it was my kids it has a lot to do with the bike they want aswell and condition of it and if they could be trusted to own such a thing ,,i have a brother who wud go flat out on **** heaps without a helmet and he do have me heart in me mouth over the bollix looking at him :)


  • #5
    seanybiker
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    Yeah but you left him up on you ccm haha.


  • #6
    honeybadger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 869 ✭✭✭honeybadger


    in fairness he was the only one who was able to start it after i broke me left foot and endo it aswell haha,,and that bike nearly wrote a mate off aswell if i wasnt telling ya about it,well it did write him off but hes on the mend now tank fook


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  • #7
    seanybiker
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    Yeah ya told me about that I think haha.
    One of the lads I know used to drive around on his fathers goldwing when he was about 15. The father didn't.give a crap. Was funny looking on fairness


  • #8
    honeybadger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 869 ✭✭✭honeybadger


    im going to have one of them too and im going to replace the luggage with boom boxes and speakers and a big fook awf mp3 player and spin around the town here when the discos are just after closing and see wot kinda reaction il get lol mobile techno its going to be called


  • #9
    seanybiker
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    Dayo a chap that used to live out your direction used to have a scooter with the helmet compartment transferred into a radio and amp.


  • #10
    honeybadger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 869 ✭✭✭honeybadger


    is that the lad who had the speaker in the foot well of the scooter and the radio under the seat ,,and thats going backa few year that aswell i tink


  • #11
    seanybiker
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    honeybadger wrote: »
    is that the lad who had the speaker in the foot well of the scooter and the radio under the seat ,,and thats going backa few year that aswell i tink
    Speaker in boot yeah. Dayo maher


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  • #12
    AgileMyth
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    I'm coming at this from the other direction, both my parents had bikes when I was growing up. We were reared around bikes and from a young age learned to appreciate the danger that exists, as well as the fun that can be had.

    My father being big into bikes has been a huge benefit to me. He advises me when I need it and I know I can trust his opinion 100%. Yeah he probably worries about me, knowing the dangers as he does, but his training and advice is more extensive than you'd get from any instructor.


  • #13
    CJhaughey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,907 ✭✭✭✭CJhaughey


    +1 on getting them started offroading, you learn more in a few weekends drifting a bike around on mud, grass and dirt then months spent riding on tarmac and concrete.
    Most of the time the real ability to ride a bike comes from being able to control it when the SHTF. Highside or lowside crashes are understood as well and with the proper gear it doesn't hurt like the road does.
    When someone pulls out on you and you are skidding and steering on a wet road all that experience on dirt will come back.


  • #14
    Del2005
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    My father got my brother and myself into bikes from about 9 on. Learning off road is so much easier then on road.

    When I have kids they'll most definitely be allowed on bikes, once the boss agress


  • #15
    galwaytt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,822 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    Del2005 wrote: »
    once the boss agress

    glwt :D

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



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