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3 wheelers rule
You are right, especially if you consider how often three wheelers sent their riders to the head trauma units. I worked in and around hospitals in Alaska in the late seventies and early eighties and we had thousands of those things running around the state. I lost count of the head cases I saw or heard about from a 3 wheeler flipping over it's front wheel. Kids were the usual victims, although even if you drove one slowly and sanely, they were still prone to go head over tea kettle if you were going downhill and hit a rock that turned the front wheel. If you still have one of those old things, I hope you also own a helmet.
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Yup. Been there, done that.
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So…..JimMO…. Folks on this tractor board are pretty sensible, down to earth folks. Most of us don’t blame the stick when we can see the primate behind it. Those ball caps you wear have adjustments in the back. Maybe you can loosen yours a couple notches and explain to the rest us, who are still bound by the laws of gravity, just how you got face slapping, loony leftist, gun grabbing, savior of mankind and evil four wheeler out of what I wrote above. Just curious.
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Yup, I think it is wise to wear a helmet when riding any atv or bicycle. I will not remove the ROPS from my Deere and after all these years of shooting I even wear ear muffs when I drive my tractor or start a lawn mower. I have lost enough hearing. If I have gone over the edge (to the dark side), please tell me where to turn in my NRA card, my Rush Limbaugh T shirt and my picture of Ronald Reagan.
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At the risk of being called a homosexual nazi again I'll jump back in here. My original post refereed to children. This post from hockeyhead also refers to kids but does not specify ages.
When legal driving age was established years ago, age 16 was not just pulled out of a hat. Studies showed that there is insufficient brain development prior to that age to safely operate a moving vehicle, especially at any sort of speed.
The problem centers around the inability to look forward and anticipate the need to stop or turn in the moments ahead. Instead, life appears to be rushing at the child, especially at any sort of speed, and they simply hit things that are easily avoidable to adults.
How many times have you seen a really small child walk right into a piece of furniture? The brain does not fully develop the ability to avoid that problem until around age sixteen for most kids.
When we as adults drink too much we regress back through those stages of development and at a certain point we start running into walls again. If we keep drinking past that point we end up crawling and soiling our britches too.
So here I go again....... don't put your children on any sort of motorized equipment until they are ready. And even then make sure the speeds at which they ride stay on the low side and make sure they are wearing helmets.
Now I just have to wait for some 40 year old to tell me what a pinko-commie gun grabber a$$#*le I am for pointing out plain facts.
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