Kinda makes ya wonder why our dirtbike cousins never got slapped with lawsuits like we did. Dirtbikes are more dangerous, what with balancing on 2 wheels and all- but no, us 3- wheeler folk get nailed. Surely the 2- wheeled crowd has gotten more banged up than any of us. So whats the deal?

 

I feel like the dirtbike is safer.

Takes alot more skill to ride a dirtbike. I still have a couple of dirtbikes and I am glad thats what I started on in 1969.

 

Boy, they had dirtbikes back in 1969? I thought you had to just run while holding two wagon wheels. j/k [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]

 

yes a dirtbike is not as stable as a quad....BUT that is why you dont hear of any high speed crashes that happen...because there probably isnt alot of them. with a quad it is...sit your a$$ down....punch the gas and shift....turn comes...ohh f#@! there goes the person...set them on a dirt bike...move 10 feet fall over

 

For some reason, it tends to hurt a little more when a 600lb quad falls on you, insted of a 200lb bike! [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

 

i think its a proven fact that quads are 100% harder to ride than a dirtbike. when you get hurt on a qaud, its going to be alot worse than on a dirtbike. quads are definetly going to hurt more because of their weight +it has more of a chance of landing on you because of size. dirtbikes have less of a chance becuase their a hell of alot smaller and weigh a hell of alot less.

 

Are you sure you don't have that backwards?

 

Here we go, comparing apples and oranges again! What comes simple to one may be a bear to another. Been riding bikes since before '69 and guess what! Dirt had already been invented also. The basics of a 2 wheeler are the same as that of a bicycle and even Ray Charles could ride a bicycle. At least until the inevitable. Even Ozzy rode a quad. At least until the inevitable. To get good and stay safe at either one takes the same thing. Experience! You only get experience by doing it and getting older.

 

couldnt say it any better

 

I feel so old...........