To Dirtbike or Not to Dirtbike - City dweller's options

I know I promised the driver's education videos...

I am editing them. Not done yet.

I was running a lot of errands today, and @rx7 was at school. I ran to change out some green paper for orange paper - $ to pesos.
Then I stopped for KFC.

To the clothing store for some sweats.

To see @pdc and chat.

I had bee planning to buy an electric bike later this week, but I was really worried about injuries if I were to get it.

As you can see this might be mistaken for an actual motorcycle and the police might think we should license it or something. Plus, it goes over forty-five miles per hour.

As much as I have always wanted a dirt bike and would like to have my son learn to ride something like this (and they are importing them into this country - first batch arriving now), I had a couple of sleepless nights picturing my sixteen year old in the hospital.

Checking out last minute options before I pull the trigger on the dirt bike / electric bicycle (left), I swung into my favorite electric vehicle store and they had new bikes that look like bikes but act like motorcycles. I asked prices and showed them what I was planning to buy. They put on the hard sell and pushed one of these at me to test drive (never had they done that before). I left my electric wheel there in the store and took of riding - took it all around the pink house and up and down the avenues. Then I though of my son. He would really love this. I went with the safer option (right).

It has fully functional peddles and 20 plus speeds, then the drive motor has a 20 mile range for when peddling is too tiring. Now his vehicle goes faster and longer distance than my wheel. I will be upgrading mine this week in order to keep up with my new twenty-five mile an hour kid.

The brakes are able to haul him down from those speeds quickly as well - and I will sleep better.

We went to the navy industrial park to open her up to see what she can do... See the video.