Get kids on a dirt bike or ATV?
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Lets start with a Bicycle first, my Dad taught me how to ride on a full size bicycle without training wheels and I have never needed training wheels since and I have been hooked on two wheels eversince
X2^ Both my daughters (5and 10) ride with me!
No there not, what do you base that off of.................more kids die on ATV than Dirt bikes
Haha I guess if you don't have any skills they feel safer lol
Dirtbike for sure. teach them to ride a bike first and they will be able to ride an atv no prob. I've met to many adults that rode atv's and had a hard time transitioning to a bike. The other way around and it seems to be easier. It drives me nuts when people teach kids to drive automatics teach them to drive manuals!!
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milo303
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I knew you didn't have any proof
And I also figured you would try child like tactics of insulting me.
Hope you feel tough, you win the internetz
Hard to find a direct comparison but.......
Safety
The modern breed of ATVs were introduced in the early 1970s and almost immediately realized alarming injury rates for children and adolescents. Based on analysis of the National Trauma Data Bank ATVs are more dangerous than dirt bikes, possibly due to crush injuries and failure to wear safety gear such as helmets
OK, Did some quick research, If you are wearing the proper safety gear and have had the proper training ATVs are no more dangerous than Dirt Bikes and ATVs are not any safer than Dirt Bikes. BUT.............ATV riders are less likely to have training and are less likely to wear proper safety gear so injuries are more common on ATVS than Dirt Bikes.
So take that any way you want.
So take that any way you want.
There are no pros to 4-wheelers unless you're a farmer spraying crops or you have a very large driveway to plow. They are utility vehicles for utilitarian purposes.
Dirt bikes are for FUN like they should be, and are safer than 4-wheelers, period. Anyone who thinks otherwise hasn't ridden a bike much. I have yet to have my bike roll over on top of me and pin me.
Uh is that trail wide enough for my four wheeler? I don't know shoulda bought a dirtbike
Uh is that trail wide enough for my four wheeler? I don't know shoulda bought a dirtbike
They have destroyed all the trails, they fit almost every where now
They have destroyed all the trails, they fit almost every where now
There is a reason they call them quadtards
Wheelers are heavy and roll, roll, roll, roll.
Bikes are light and tip over.
Bikes require skill.
Wheelers require fat asses with BEER.
Bikes are light and tip over.
Bikes require skill.
Wheelers require fat asses with BEER.
I don't have any stats, I don't have enough give a sh!t to bother with that.
Common sense indicates that when you wreck, the weight & size of the wheeler would be more likely to contribute to an injury than a light motorcycle would.
Now I will play the devils advocate & contradict myself....
Once the skill level has advanced & the kid is jumping, one could argue that the bike will jump higher, farther etc.
I personally don't think that offsets the safety disadvantage I explained in the 1st paragraph.
Common sense indicates that when you wreck, the weight & size of the wheeler would be more likely to contribute to an injury than a light motorcycle would.
Now I will play the devils advocate & contradict myself....
Once the skill level has advanced & the kid is jumping, one could argue that the bike will jump higher, farther etc.
I personally don't think that offsets the safety disadvantage I explained in the 1st paragraph.
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