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.
 
You really wouldn't want to go on a motorway with a quad.

I really see no point in them at all. As said above, all the disadvantages of a bike, without any of the benefits.
 
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.
 
There are a few morons around that I see regularly hooning around, loud stupid things! The people on them seem to think they are more invincible than the on 50cc mopeds that like to "get their knee down".

NS
 
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.
 
Dangerous unsafe unstable .. Yes i have ridden them and if yer any good they can be fun but does nothing a bike or car can do .

You also look a berk .

Persil
 
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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