should your son or daughter get a 50cc when they're 16 when you were 16 I let you have a 50cc
from my point of view it was a good thing what about you was it the right thing to do yeah I've
saved since you've had a 50 is easy I don't drive very far but my petrol bills gone from 6500 a week
in the car and I'm riding the Harley most the time so it's 10 pounds a week so it definitely
saved me some money what about safety there were parents always worried about safety how'd
you feel about the safety yeah I mean you're faster than a bicycle I mean my appointment of
safety is that if you let your son or daughter have a bike when they're 16 they've got a year
to learn Road crafts at 30 miles an hour and then if they're gonna get a 1 to 5 after that
they've already got some sort of skill whereas if they jump straight onto a bigger bike that's
more dangerous if they skip the you know the 17 who start 18 19 they're gonna get onto a bigger
bike and that could be very dangerous so I think that's a good safety thing from that point of view
vote yeah that's true to where we live is pretty quiet so do you think that has an effect I mean
what if people lived in a busier city but they think it was a good idea or a bad idea I mean
there was I had a 50cc and I used to write it in London the traffic's not so fast so in
a way it's okay as long as you do count for other cars but you let your kids go out and
bicycles and that's just as dangerous you can easily get hit on the bicycle a lot of people
say it's not you it's others it's other people what would you say to that also say bringing
kids up I think cuz I always told you you know went from a young lad when I'm driving you know
look out for this and what happened there and should I slow down for this and I explained
to him about road safety so if you're bringing your kids up properly and you've explained all
that to them when you're going on a trip you've covered that so when they put it into action on
their motorbike I mean yeah there's dangerous and there's always dangers even for me or anyone else
who's on the road but you know at some point they're gonna have to do it so why not at 16
if you trust your kids they're gonna be safe is that true um I one thing that's helped me
is that since you've been riding I'm more free I don't have to take him to school or college
or work or whatever you know he can go on his own so I'm free now to go where I want to go
which is a nice thing so I'm not the taxi service anymore so but that's the biggest change for me
what advice would you give anyone thinking of buying a 50cc them well it's best to start off
with a fifty CJ because if you were interested in buying a bike safer to start so why this
particular bike since you've been riding than have you had any near misses but these things
make you learn and I mean if you were doing sixty nine to five that would have been a worse thing
wouldn't it so my point of view is that you learn these things at a speed you can control and then
your Road Safety's better for later in life so obviously I've been writing about motorbikes
for years so it was easy for me to say yes to you but what would you say to people who want
to get a bike and they've got to persuade their parents their parents are not motorcycle riders
one thing I would say about safety around here there's a lot of cyclists as cycling clubs they
have racing and racing bikes and they go off with kids of eight nine ten eleven twelve and
they're on the roads up and down and they're getting everyone's way I think that's really
dangerous so people don't mind that kids doing that and I'd rather him 150cc with the decent
brakes decent suspension and handling at a better speed so I think you know you're happy to let
your kids go on bikes but this is a better way of getting started I think on the road another
thing is a lot of kids do BMX and I can't think of a more dangerous thing to do I've seen kids
break their bones and their wrists and their arms their fingers and parents are quite happy
for them to do that or you could say your kid does gymnastics when they go and break their leg
on the beam so there's danger and everything but you know we all have to get about so my
advice to any parent is just think you know if you brought your kid up properly and they're sensible
you know trust them you used to do PNX didn't you and what do you think's safer BMX or this
you