To NOT want my 5 year old to RIDE PILLION ON DH'S MOTORBIKE?

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Please if anyone know any legal material, or minimum age for children to ride motorbikes, let me know asap!

NO of course you are NABU! Christ!

YANBU

He is a pratt (sorry but he is)

F-ing hell no!

OMG!
You are being totally reasonable!!
Unfortunately info here says no legal limit.

Keep putting your foot down

YANBU - I wouldn't like my DP riding on a motorbike let alone a child. No, no, no!

there is not a minimum age, but they must be able to reach the foot rests.

NO!!!!!

No way, never, ever, ever, ever.

We have a dilemma tomorrow morning as our AP is away, and my sons nursery and my oldest sons school are quite a distance from eachother. My husband promised to take one of them, while I take the other. One of us on the bus, and the other by car, I thought.

He wants to take our 5 year old as passenger on his motorbike, riding pillion, on his way to work.

I groan. I think he is only suggesting it so i shall admit defeat and spend my morning going BOTH ways, and getting late to work....
I think he wants to get out of his promise... grr. He CANT be serious. But he has had him out on the motorbike to see that he can reach the passenger pedals, and he can!

5 is way too young!

Better to be late for work than your child on the back of a motorbike. It is crazy. Insane. No way should you allow this to happen. He is 5 FGS.

YANBU
Although... I bet I was on the front of my dad's (very crap/slow) scooter at that age - but only to come up our back lane at 2 mph. God I loved it....

Does he have a properly fitting crash helmet? I would not imagine an adult one would be appropriate.

No of course I wont let it happen! I rather be late for work! I am just so mad that he is using THIS method to get out of a prior arrangement!

I don't think a 5 year old can be trusted/is able to hold on sufficiently well. Your DH is a f-ing lunatic for even considering it.

I know it would be letting Dh have his own way but I would rather deliver both kids myself and be late for work than let my 5yr old on the back of a motorbike.

Tell him he can have the car and you'll use the bus? Surely he can't argue with that. Or do you need to have the car?

My DH is a testosterone bundle, and with very little fear.... He mountain bikes, goes sea rafting, takes his motorbike touring, paragliding, and have sometimes not enough sense of danger.....

Ah, slightly different circumstances. Clearly no.

What does he think would happen to a 5 year old in an adult helmet and (I presume) no protective leathers if he fell off a bike going at (let's say) 30mph??

In a car they have to be strapped into an appropriate child seat FFS!

No, I find it hard to hold on myself when I am on the pillion, I dont think my five your old can get his arms around dh properly sitting on the bike either.

I dont need the car, I can go by bus, but he cant take the car to work, so he would come home with the car and then take the bike, and I dont think he will be up for that...

I shall just get up early and take ds2 to nursery first, and then ds1 to school after... grrr.

Make him take one child on the bus! It won't hurt to not go on his bike for one day. You can't have your own way when you have a child!

I'd suggest that if you talk to these guys it may concentrate his mind

YANBU at all.
and he'd need an age appropriate helmet.

Make it clear in no uncertain terms what you think of him for even suggesting this.