Because it's dangerous...?
Oh, exactly.
I didn't-don't want that for my children, thanks. I prefer them undamaged.
Er... no. I'm fraid that it's very much a question of "Do as I say, not as I did when I was 17".
I want my ancestors' genes to pbutt through to untold generations yet to come. Putting my youngest son on a motor-bike might well be the surest-fire way of preventing that. It's just not on.
Serious Road Accident caused by a Dog 1460nonsensical physics No. I build the engines for them and have spent a fair amount of time on or around race tracks but I wouldn't call myself a racing driver. I'd also have to say...
Too many of them fail to learn that lesson and never learn to drive for that reason.
I have never actually known anyone who has been end in a car-crash (leaving out the little girl at nursery school who was end by bus when she ran across the road when we were three, for more than one reason). Or even seriously injured, to speak of. But I have known more than one person end on motor-bikes. And someone else who was seriously injured on one. So, while it may well call for rapid acquisition of traffic and observation skills, perhaps the required rapidity is too much for many motor-bikers to handle. Itwas just too risky for my kids, and it would have been hypocritical of me to support it being made compulsory for other peoples' kids.
The unacceptably high risk of being end (heck, a lot of police traffic bikers get end) makes that academic, I'm afraid.
It' not enough to make me change my mind. And I don't suppose it'll change the minds of many others either.
There are *loads* of things I did as a kid in inner Liverpool that I would not wish my children to do.
