Unsafe at any speed

[smokeyhonda]

I feel like I'm working with Ralph Nader. "Those three wheelers aren't safe" This coming from a kid half my age who was born about the time of the ban and races dirtbikes / rides golfcarts. Drives me NUTS! Can barely get this kid to admit that its the dummy driving not the machine! "well they are stiil unsafe - why do you think they stopped making them?" If he wasn't such a good worker I'd tell him to walk (not really, I need the help) ...anyways just needed to vent a little. How do you all deal with massive ignorance?

[Dan Tenn]

I tell them to ****-off, and stop bitching. Just because they are jealous that a 25+ year old relic can still kick their new quads ass. Tell them the reason they banned them is that they are just two darn fast.

[dreamintheR]

tell him the reason they banned them is because of stupid careless/reckless drivers like him , who cant even site on one without his legs shakin

[1985 200s]

Tell him that it requires a highly talented individual to operate them and evidently there aren't enough of them out there so they had to install training wheels (quads) for the less talented and uncoordinated.

[mr4x42u]

well no atv is safe..Thats the bottom line..According to the transpotation safty board air travel is the safest way to travel so why does he drive..Its unsafe if you look at the numbers,so he had better give up driving..Its funny 3 wheelers are unsafe but back in the day when this was an issue it was young kids with little to no riding experiance on bikes they can't handle..The same goes for today as well..Over the weekend I saw a kid maybe 5 on a banshee??WTF but yea,,,wheelers are unsafe

[deathman53]

I notice the same thing, kids on adult size bikes who can't handle them. there was a guy preaching to me how unsafe trikes were, they flip alot, etc. I told him, and you thing that letting your 12 yr old ride a 250r is safe, he said "its a four wheeler, alot safer". People have this crazy idea that quads are safe and trikes are dangerous, if you look at the numbers accidents went up 5 fold after 88, i guess those numbers get hidden and accident rates from 85 and 86 aren't hidden.

[mr4x42u]

Up 5 fold because the nuber of quads sold after wheelers were baned was off the hook..Pretty much 86was the start of the quad boom.Sure wheelers are tippy,,Can't deny that..But that where adults and parents need to know limits and I think its been forgotten where that line is..stereo types

[3 weelin geezer]

tell em to wear his helmet (on his head not the rack with the net)

[threewheelin-feelin]

i think its all bs ever thing in life is dangerouse breathing is dangerouse why take something away that is fun its retarded

[Beer_Smurf]

..According to the transpotation safty board air travel is the safest way to travel.......

Funny thing is that most planes are trikes.

[dreamintheR]

im 13 and own a 350x i know my limits and what i can and can not do on a trike though , sum kids my age get fast machines and think they can do anything , like there superman cause there fast..well im just sayin ..if you know what your doin , and arent a careless /unresponible ridder you should be ok on a big machine ..just dont test your limits

[yamahaman89]

YES i agree with everything all of u said and at high school i get teased cuz i own trikes and im gettin tired of it even my nieghbor hates them

[Cheap250]

im 14 own a 200S and beat my friends quads all the time they always trailprotrailprotrailprotrailprotrailpro cause i get theyre 2 strokes on take off because im lighter blah blah blah the point is people hate trikes because we dont go around saying how fast they are and they dont know it till we embarass them

[dreamintheR]

tell it like it is bro tell it like it is

[atcpunk107]

im 16 and i ride an 84 big red and i think i can ride pretty good on quads and trikes, i dont think it is so much a matter of age but a matter of maturity, though a 5 yr old on anything larger than a 110 is rediculous, on the trail i can go anywhere that the group i ride can go, they have brand new 4x4 and the place they can pull away from me is on the straits and that is only a couplle because they are mainly autos, they think that i am the best rider in the world because i can keep up with them with an old trike with bald tires, the truth is in trails you dont need to go fast and you dont need alot of power, kids in school brag that thier mommy and daddy just baought them a brangd new quad and then they put everything they see down becaus they think becaus they have a big bike that they know how to ride it, a month later however they are the ones coming into school with a broken wrist because they fliped becaus they dumped the clutchgoing up a hill and they ended up on their back. then they think all atv are dangeouse and think they should be outlawed because they got hurt. damn lil spoiled rich kids ruin it for everyone else, i bet if you look at all the injuries you will find most of them are from inmature kids that just got a R tecate or tri-z and never had a trike before. just my two and a half cents