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Dirt bike

NAS71321

Hello, my son is 23 years old and absolutely loves loves motorcycles. He would like to own a motorcycle and ride a motorcycle. He has autism and his higher functioning but it is my fear that riding a bike on the road is absolutely too much for him to handle especially since he has epilepsy. I would like to make his wish come true by getting him a bike that he can ride on the property but with that being said, I would be looking into a smaller type of dirt bike that can be adjusted to only go no faster than 20 miles per hour.  He loves speed and that scares me.  It breaks my heart that he can't ride his Harley David's dream bike as he wishes.  He even wants to work in a motorcycle shop. 

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  • Hi - This is going to sound terrible - I apologise for that - but how ASD  is your son?   Is he aware of the implications of riding a bike - not only the personal risk and responsibility but all the third-parties he could kill and property he can damage?

    If he was *that* into bikes, I would probably have doing this much sooner where he could have become interested in trialling or quad bikes as a child in a purely off-road, mud-based situation where the sport is all at low-speed.    As he's now an adult, he wants adult things - and that could a huge risk to himself and everyone else.

    You might want to get him some lessons on an off-road riding school (they are usually on airfields or large car parks) and ask them to assess him, his attitude and skills before allowing him anywhere near the public roads.

    As an aside, my brother needed surgery on his hip when he was 11 - he was in the local Victorian hospital with long wards of maybe 20 beds - in every bed was a young man with their right leg in traction after a motorbike accident.     It really put me off bikes from an early age.

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  • Hi - This is going to sound terrible - I apologise for that - but how ASD  is your son?   Is he aware of the implications of riding a bike - not only the personal risk and responsibility but all the third-parties he could kill and property he can damage?

    If he was *that* into bikes, I would probably have doing this much sooner where he could have become interested in trialling or quad bikes as a child in a purely off-road, mud-based situation where the sport is all at low-speed.    As he's now an adult, he wants adult things - and that could a huge risk to himself and everyone else.

    You might want to get him some lessons on an off-road riding school (they are usually on airfields or large car parks) and ask them to assess him, his attitude and skills before allowing him anywhere near the public roads.

    As an aside, my brother needed surgery on his hip when he was 11 - he was in the local Victorian hospital with long wards of maybe 20 beds - in every bed was a young man with their right leg in traction after a motorbike accident.     It really put me off bikes from an early age.

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