Should I let my 13 year old son buy a dirt bike?
If your kid has an interest in motorcycles it may never go away. Studies (Hurt report and others) prove that those who ride and live are the ones who start young on small trail bikes and moved up gradually through the ranks. Sadly, if you do not let him learn the right way now, he is several times more likely to suffer serious injury should he get to be 30 and then buy himself a big street bike without having the proper experience. However, with the proper training and gradual steps up in motorcycle size he has a 98% chance of riding for an entire lifetime without a bad accident. I MADE both of my kids ride dirt bikes often at a young age under my watchful eye though neither showed any special desire to do so. I couldn’t live with myself if they died on a Harley 10 years from now and I hadn’t done this. Both are very capable and responsible now and show no tendency towards riding dangerously or taking silly chances. Both now enjoy it and enjoy the time we spend together doing it too. I
