How old to ride a quad bike on roads?

You will look a tit, you will crash and you will regret it.

Its so cool to ride a quad on the road in your t shirt and no helmet if you are a gypo!
 
Quads are stupid, you will need a full car licence iirc, they have all the downsides of motorbikes and all the downsides of cars, none of the benefits. And the handle like a pushbike in quicksand i.e. not at all.


EDIT: why would you want to go on motorways with a quad, they go about 60 mph tops, surely off road would be more fun.
 
They look like a bit of fun, two wheeling a roundabout and wheelie into the sunset. That'd get old quick though and I would NEVER use one on a motorway. Better off on two wheels for a cummuting machine.
 
I'm willing to bet that the vast majority of everyone slating road going quads hasn't actually tried it. With the right quad it is immense fun. Bouncing a Banshee 350 into a drift around a roundabout at the top of the rev range, all the while in absolute fear of highsiding and dying is immense fun*. Much more fun than most motorbikes in the same situation.

They're not for doing the bloody commute to work on.

* If you're into that sort of thing. I doubt many of the regulars here are, though.
 
I had a play with one a few weeks back whilst I was on my bike. It sounded fantastic and picked up from a standstill brilliantly, though after 30mph it didn't have much oomph. It was skidding and twisting all over the road though, I was quite surprised the guy didn't smash it into a parked car on a few occasions.

Wouldn't mind doing a bit of goofing around in the fields or something but for the road they have all the downsides of a bike, with none of the benefits imo.
 
If they did proper road biased quads, i can see the appeal, seeing as most of them come with stupid overblown tractor like tyres on, and have no power at all over 30mph, then no, i wouldnt ride one on the road.
An idiot who used to work with me had one, paid 2k for it and used it to commute on, it was a nightmare in the wet, he couldnt squeeze through traffic on it, and on the open road top speed was about 50mph.
Better off with a 125.
 
I have limited experience with quads - ridden a few off-road but never on the street.

The only quads I see on the road are invariably ridden by men in their late 30s/early 40s who spend their whole time riding flat out through town centres on a Saturday afternoon, trying to do wheelies away from Pelican crossings etc.
 
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