AIBU to say no to my 8y.o travelling on the back of a motorbike?

[MissWimpyDimple]

DDs dad has had a change in his working hours that mean that he now can't drive to work.

In turn this means that for his weekly overnights with DD, he wants to collect her on his motorbike.

She is a skinny lightweight 8y.o and we are talking about half an hour in rush hour traffic for each journey.

I have said no. Apparently I am being unreasonable. There are easy alternatives but he doesn't like the thought of them because it would mean he doesn't get home in time to bath his other kids. (But we are talking about once or twice a week at the most).

I'm sick of him bullying me into things I don't think are right- but am I being overprotective here?

Yeah because you often see moped riders fully kitted out.

Was that your point? Perhaps you should have made it more clearly. There are lots of campaigns aimed at encouraging moped riders to wear proper gear.

I was replying to the poster directly above me, it's not rocket science to figure that out surely considering she was asking about mopeds

I'd love to see moped riders kitted out. I doubt it will happen though.

An adult can make an informed choice about the risks involved when they get on a bike, a child is trusting the parent.

My son works in orthopaedic trauma and once told me that none of the team will ever have a motorbike because of their experiences with accident victims.

IMO this is something that is well worth standing up to a bully over, hard though it may be.

lol at no one in the hospital service riding bikes, there are plenty, including lots of women that do. We have quite a few in our, all female, bike club. There are lots of risks, you have to weigh the odds, for lots of us it's worth it, for the majority it isn't. Live and let live but the decision of whether a child should be allowed to ride pillion is their parents alone, after the legalities are satisfied. I decided yes, the OP has decided no....decision made.

I'd like for all cars to be fitted with an outward facing 6" nail in the steering wheel, to concentrate the driver, it won't happen but I can dream.

As parents though, you have an equal right to make a decision for your child.
Legally, this scenario is fine.
So, I don't really get how you could enforce a no.

No, never.

Pantah I didn't say no-one in hospital service riding bikes, I said the surgical team my son is part of say they will never ride a motorbike. Still it gave you a lol.

I'm well aware that various hospital staff ride bikes. My DS, a sister in a city A&E used a moped to commute to work for some years.

No fecking way.

Yaddddnbu

I know Rozalia but it's the general consensus on these threads with quips about organ donors, it gets a bit tiring. No matter, I've just come in from a cracking ride to visit my DGM, it's a tad blowy out there

If it's rush hour traffic I'd be far less concerned than if it was empty country roads.

City riding means going from traffic light to traffic light basically. Not much of an opportunity to get into trouble as long as her dad doesn't take the piss by doing wheelies down the high street. I'd consider rush-hour riding to be one of the safer forms of biking.

Your peace of mind though, so you've a right to say no.