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AIBU?

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

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QuintessentialShadow · 18/11/2007 19:41

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

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hayCHingleBells · 18/11/2007 19:58

My good god.
YANBU!!!

Tell dp/dh that it is going to be nasty weather tomorrow, very wet and possibly icy in places.

Where do you live, check the weather report.

He must be farkin nuts, wanting to take a 5yr old on the back!!!

colditz · 18/11/2007 20:00

Absolutelu NOT

Has he even got protective clothing that fits? I am an avid otorcyclist, but I also have a 4.5 year old boy and no way would I even consider it for the next 5 years at least.

HeadHeartorHormones · 18/11/2007 20:01

Weird - all that new legislation to ensure children use appropriate booster seats etc, and yet a child of any age can apparently hop on the back of a motorbike. Perhaps they thought nobody would be that reckless(?!).

Would he really do this?

SoupDragon · 18/11/2007 20:01

Having googled it to see if there was a minimum age it seems there are very few child deaths from riding pillion. Presumably because very few people are farking stupid enough to try it!

Tortington · 18/11/2007 20:02

i would - in your situation - tell him that there was no way i was going to allow it - and if he took my baby on a motorbike - i wold phone police and tell them he had kidnapped him - and i would tell him so - i would tell my dh that i will make shit up to get him arrested and save my childs life.

PavlovtheCat · 18/11/2007 20:05

Hekete · 18/11/2007 20:05

How manipulative of him.

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QuintessentialShadow · 18/11/2007 20:09

He has backed down. He will take DS2 in the bicycle trailer, leave the trailer at the nursery, and cycle to work.

Thanks for mentioning age appropriate helmet and safety gear....

I have told him in no uncertain terms what I think of him and that halfbaked idea....

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macdoodle · 18/11/2007 20:10

nope YANBU...my H is biker too...DD age 6 has 4 wheel quad..she also has properly fitted crash helmet and leathers and gauntlet even so I don't like it...you can get proper bungee cord things to hold them on as they are not strong enough to hold on riding pillion but I would not let mine even with proper gear sorry ...crazy...he may be safe excellent rider (as my H says and he is) but its the cars on the road that don't see the bikes that are the danger.....

colditz · 18/11/2007 20:10

Excellent. And you get to use the car.

NAB3littlemonkeys · 18/11/2007 20:10

Does your son have a helmet for wearing in the trailer?

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QuintessentialShadow · 18/11/2007 20:12

Yes, we use the cycles a lot, and have all the appropriate gear for that!

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colditz · 18/11/2007 20:12

I am an excellent safe rider but you get those twats with cheap suits hanging in their rear window who just don't see you ('cos they're not fucking looking!) and BAM.

I fell off a moped at 25 miles an hour, dislocated m y hip and damaged two of the discs in my spine. I was 17. A moped, and I wasn't even hit by anything, only the floor.

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QuintessentialShadow · 18/11/2007 20:19

DH crashed his bike two days before DS2 was born. His leathers was ripped to shreds, and he had the most horrible purple bruise along his side. He bounced on the back of this sedan and flew over it. There was a hill, and a traffic light just down on the other side, so when he got to the top, he crashed in stationary traffic jam...

He had to rebuild it from scratch using parts he bought of ebay, as cash was a bit scarce at the time. It took his 6 months. Kept him quiet.

His first bike was scrapped outside Geneva...

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Bouncingturtle · 18/11/2007 20:37

Thank goodness you managed to change his mind. I rode pillion on my dad's bike when I was 9. I was pretty terrified.
5 is way way way too young and your DH was off his trolley even to consider it!!

melpomene · 18/11/2007 20:50

What a crazy idea - glad that he has changed his mind.

A close friend of my dh was riding his motorbike a couple of weeks ago, got hit by a car and was killed, leaving behind a pregnant wife. The driver of the car was only 19 and has been charged with dangerous driving. Motorbike riders are so vulnerable.

lomond · 18/11/2007 20:53

No way in the world I would allow it. Glad he has changed his mind.

SoupDragon · 19/11/2007 09:27

Thank goodness!!

Columbia · 19/11/2007 09:35

I agree with Colditz, it wasn't a very well thought out idea.

I'm a safe rider too, but even so am used to having near misses every time I ride...other vehicles do not see bikes.

I would take a maybe 9 year old round the block, very very slowly, for fun, and once only...but anyone younger than that, no blooming way.

Well done for sticking to your guns! Plenty of time later for your children to get into bikes.

(I had a slow speed crash too and it was very painful - though could have been much worse)

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