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Proof-Variation7005 t1_jdf2is4 wrote

Reply to comment by Dopey-NipNips in 2 dead from reckless Dirt Bike riding on city streets by Flashbulb_RI

Even a program where you can ride them on streets with certain safety gear and obeying traffic laws and what not would help too. Enforcement based approaches will only go so far and we've already seen it backfire multiple times.

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Dopey-NipNips t1_jdf3jrh wrote

There's not nearly as much fun in that. Part of the appeal is that it's dangerous outlaw tough guy stuff.

I'm an adult and there's guys in every group who push the limits and do dumb shit on an otherwise legal ride. Speeding and wheelies and weaving

Let em do it in the dirt and make them wear all the gear and do badass outlaw stuff somewhere there's no civilians and an ambulance nearby

It couldn't hurt

I'm really passionate about this idea because this 100% could have been me and will probably be my kids if I don't give them an outlet

I have a shitty beater bike I let the kids at work learn on in the parking lot at work. I bet all of them go and do something retarded when they get their own bike, have a bad accident like all of us do, and then get a full dresser old man bike when it's out of their system

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fishythepete t1_jdgbnj8 wrote

Alternately try nutting up and doing what people who like to play with guns do. Start a club, buy some land, and make and take ownership of a place where you can do your dangerous shit without hurting people just trying to get through the day. Imagine if gun owners were just setting up target practice in the streets because “there’s no place to go.”

Shit there’s a place open in Richmond now, but you gotta pay $40 and not be an asshole - probably too much to ask of these fine folks.

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