Got my 15yo son the Wired predator. Did i make a mistake?

[PedalUma]

Giving is part of receiving. And somethings are worth receiving.

 

[sc00ter]

So you purchased a dirt bike originally and never had time to take him out on it. I can see that. Then you replaced it with a ebike that was totally overkill. I can see that as well. If it was me I would have split the difference and gotten him a Honda Ruckus or Yamaha Zuma. Not sure about your local areas minimum age for moped operation, and/or what it entails, but he could learn the rules of the road and you could "borrow" it when needed to do beer runs and such. I've only ever seen a Wired once in the wild and it was beat-up and huge, looked like it was crashed a few times. Also looked kinda cheap up close. I know cheap, I was on RadRunner 2 when I saw it.

I say test him with the Wired. Good way to see how he handles the responsibility and temptation to unlock it! Also 100% ensure he wears a helmet. Kids hate helmets, young adults accept them and wear them.

 

[Underdog]

The bad thing about those bikes is they are in a class by themselves, and in the wrong hands can shed a bad light on the growing popular ebike owners obeying local laws. It may say class 2 but that is an electric motorcycle at best and needs to be classified as such.

 

[PedalUma]

The bad thing about those bikes is they are in a class by themselves, and in the wrong hands can shed a bad light on the growing popular ebike owners obeying local laws. It may say class 2 but that is an electric motorcycle at best and needs to be classified as such.

Yes, what it does is paints all electric bikes with the same crappy junk outlaw danger brush. That is not a bike. That is a Venn Diagram with zero overlap with bicycles and electric bicycles. It is putting a turd in the communal soup pot that spoils the whole thing. It also exploits the good will and favor of bicycles. It is an outlaw motorcycle that has pedals as an exploitive deception.

 

[stompandgo]

Defiance is the neutral state of our society today.

 

[PedalUma]

Defiance is the neutral state of our society today.

I am very much into cooperative collaboration in creating community. Maybe somewhat off topic, for the last couple of days I have been going analog and it is lots of fun. With a really good bike that is perfectly true and tuned it is as fast as my Vado. There is no filter. It is like skinny dipping. Liberating. It was shifting up fine but down it jumped cogs. The DAG took care of that on the horizontal. There is nothing like a totally dialed bike. And so very different than the redneck Bevis and Butthead 9,000W approach.