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Anyone have those damn mini-motorcycles?
- Thread starter boyRacer
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HappyPuppy
Lifer
OMG, those things are annoying. I wouldn't mind riding one sometime, though. 😀
Hayabusa Rider
Admin Emeritus & Elite Member
Whoa one for each foot!
Evadman
Administrator Emeritus<br>Elite Member
When you were 10, kids were not as bratty as they are now, getting whatever the hell they want. I would never dream of rising one on the street, for fear I would get my ass whooped by a parent somewhere. And I am only 24.
I went into a Pepboys to get a set of rotors for my zuk, and all the kids were crawling all over the things, some riding them up and down the isles. WTF man? What is with parents. I was so close to clotheslineing one kid as he went by on an electric scooter, screaming his head off for me to "get the fvck out of his way" WTF. Bratty kid, raised wrong by his parents. And WTF was with the employees letting them do it?
So, I think the scooters and bikes are a bad idea uinless the kid is raised right, and uses it correctly, and when it is safe to do so. Not in a store, or out in the street where I have to look every which way. because now, not only can a kid jump out in the street to get a ball, but now they are motorized, and faster than ever. Of course, it would still be my fault for running a kid over when he comes out between 2 houses at 20mph into the street where I promptly run him into the ground.
Brutuskend
Lifer
Me too, if it looked like a Harley!
Hell I'm small, I might look "normal" on one. 😛
Brutuskend
Lifer
Me too Bro!
But now @ 50, I'm starting to shrink. 🙁
The Stigenator
Lifer
the ones being sold are cheap chinese knockoffs.. they retail about 300.. they are slow.. the real ones go about 1000-2000 dollars.
We had a picnic today, a family picnic, and there were a few ppl with these bikes.. giving rides and all. Atleast they wore bicycle helmets and were riding in teh bike lanes of balboa park.
I wouldnt mind getting one but its no use to me, i rather use the real thing, my gs500.
We had a picnic today, a family picnic, and there were a few ppl with these bikes.. giving rides and all. Atleast they wore bicycle helmets and were riding in teh bike lanes of balboa park.
I wouldnt mind getting one but its no use to me, i rather use the real thing, my gs500.
i work at a custom motorcycle shop.... back around november and december we got those in and some of the chopper looking ones... they were kool and we sold a ton because people were buying them for their kids.
we kept a few around thru the end of winter and when spring came all the hood rats bought them... well wasnt long before they tried to ride them in the streets and sidewalks in the city and the cops were taking them left and right
the other thing is they are JUST A TOY
if you fall and break something on it, its a weedwacker motor, so don't expect to do a motor rebuild
and they are imported into the us from china 95% pre-assembled, and parts are not available, so if you crash and break something, you just wasted a few hundred bux
the alternative is to get a real pocket bike, like a blatta, but they start at $2000 - but can be modded to go over 70!
id suggest just buying a honda xr 50 (now called the crf50) and putting a handlebar kit and exhaust on em
we kept a few around thru the end of winter and when spring came all the hood rats bought them... well wasnt long before they tried to ride them in the streets and sidewalks in the city and the cops were taking them left and right
the other thing is they are JUST A TOY
if you fall and break something on it, its a weedwacker motor, so don't expect to do a motor rebuild
and they are imported into the us from china 95% pre-assembled, and parts are not available, so if you crash and break something, you just wasted a few hundred bux
the alternative is to get a real pocket bike, like a blatta, but they start at $2000 - but can be modded to go over 70!
id suggest just buying a honda xr 50 (now called the crf50) and putting a handlebar kit and exhaust on em
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