This incites me. Disgusting...

[scracha]

When I first got my bike, I took the kids down the drive without any gear on them or myself. Pretty dumb in hindsight. Not only could 250+kgs landing on a child if we had a fall cause a

It's all about managed risk. The risk of you falling off whilst pootling along the drive is next to bugger all. The risk of it killing or causing serious injury is less than bugger all. Personally it's halfwits advertising their horses by riding them without helmets on Trademe that gets my goat.

fatality, but also because as my kids grow up, they may not remember the context of my actions. All they may recall is "dad took us riding without gear and we were ok".

C'mon..if it was all about role modelling I'd be drinking 8 whisky's by lunchtime, cooking with lard, smoking 40 fags a day, have 7 kids by 4 different women and be shacked up with my asian secretary before dying in my late 30's*. Give kids a chance to at least prove they're stupid before treating them as such

New Zealand:- You can drive at 15, shoot an automatic weapon, ride a horse without a helmet and ride a motorcycle in shorts but you're a criminal if you ride a pushbike without a helmet.


*Maybe my old boy wasn't so stupid come to think of it.

[98tls]

To be honest i wish i could remember the (apparently) many trips on old Brits when small enough to have a pair of goggles put round my head an stuffed down a Swanni.

[sunhuntin]

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[IMG]snippy pic[/IMG]

boy, i remember those guys. from the gnome books yeh? the little guys with the taaaal read cone hats. i had a little set of the books, they were tiny, about 7cm tall.

[duckonin]

NZ is being fucked up by all those (minority) that want the majority to comform to their ideals, this is the real world let people get on with their eventful lives, and the rest can all go back to bed....

[Street Gerbil]

... I tried it once. After unloading the bike off the trailer and before parking it in the carport. I just could not resist. Down the street, around a cul-de-sac and back. Without a helmet or any body armor. I felt euphoric, from the wind in my face and from realization of my vulnerability too.

[Mully]

Sort of agree, but kids do silly things (like jump off or pull the steering) and a kids head, with no helmet, on concrete can be like dropping an egg.

Well, you aren't allowed to smack them anymore.......

[Laxi]

Well, you aren't allowed to smack them anymore.......

correction! you're not allowed to get caught smackn em

[scumdog]

It "incites" you? To do what, exactly?

Kiwi Biker isn't snapt.co.nz. If the ATGATT loonies want their own web site, they should go and start one.

Damn tootin right H.

Riding pissed with no helmet while standing on the seat use to be my bag back in the '60's!

[kit]

Poor children these days ain't allowed to have fun anymore!!!! I loved pootling round the farm in front of dad on a bike, and kids aren't as stupid as you think they are....(pulling on the handle bars?) No Way! I knew not to do something like that.... kids learn through experence.

[Brett]

... I tried it once. After unloading the bike off the trailer and before parking it in the carport. I just could not resist. Down the street, around a cul-de-sac and back. Without a helmet or any body armor. I felt euphoric, from the wind in my face and from realization of my vulnerability too.

I was naughty once and even did a stoppie with no gear on. All be it from 30 kph on the ZXR 250!

[gatch]

Hmmmm... I can sortta see your point here. It IS slightly dangerous, kid could shift around and slip off, but then again, kid's heads are pretty soft!

I know of a guy who ran his baby's head over, IN HIS CAR, kid is alive and well today


I assure you, this isn't bullshit either. The only thing that saved the kid was the softness of it's head. Oh, and maybe the fact the wheels were not made out of knives.

Bro !

season 3 metalocalypse episode name suggestion "wheels made of knives"

[AllanB]

I sold my Puch moped in my late teens when they brought in compulsory helmet laws for mopeds. Wish I still had it - it was very cool and went bloody well after we made a expansion chamber for it

My kids enjoy the occasional blat up and down the drive on the back of my bike none of us wear helmets during this exercise. I probably should as it would drown out the yells of joy they shout in my ear.

Go and climb a tree or something and gain back a bit of that youthful feeling.

[98tls]

I sold my Puch moped in my late teens when they brought in compulsory helmet laws for mopeds. Wish I still had it - it was very cool and went bloody well after we made a expansion chamber for it

My kids enjoy the occasional blat up and down the drive on the back of my bike none of us wear helmets during this exercise. I probably should as it would drown out the yells of joy they shout in my ear.

Go and climb a tree or something and gain back a bit of that youthful feeling.

Better still fall outta one then get up and laugh about it,yep nothing like being young.

[Timber020]

Lucky kid. Dad shares his passions with him. Great pic. I have more of a problem with a pic of a kid watching TV on a sunny day

[Marmoot]

I would agree if he was pulling a mono or something. It just doesn't look that bad dude.

Bike = 2 wheels.
Mono = 1 wheel.

Half the wheel number, half the risk.