On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:15:21 -0600, Joe Pfeiffer
wrote:

A Mini-Bike has the same hazards as a full size motorcycle. Lots of
wonderful ways to get unstable or make a driving error (like too much
front brake or otherwise let the front end wash out) and unload at
speed - and then have the bike land on top of you...

The only minibike I ever rode was very slow and rear-brake only. It had
many fewer hazards compared to a motorcycle, and probably fewer than a
bicycle -- due to the much lower speed and lower center of gravity.

Ill bet it didnt have a McColloch chainsaw engine as the power source.

Gunner, who had the front end come apart at an estimated 60 miles an
hour on such a minibike..and still has gravel imbedded in his hide...40
yrs later


"Lenin called them "useful idiots," those people living in
liberal democracies who by giving moral and material support
to a totalitarian ideology in effect were braiding the rope that
would hang them. Why people who enjoyed freedom and prosperity worked
passionately to destroy both is a fascinating question, one still with us
today. Now the useful idiots can be found in the chorus of appeasement,
reflexive anti-Americanism, and sentimental idealism trying to inhibit
the necessary responses to another freedom-hating ideology, radical Islam"

Bruce C. Thornton, a professor of Classics at American University of Cal State Fresno