When considering purchasing an ATV for your child, you need to consider a few factors. If your child is ready for the responsibility and understands the necessity of wearing the correct safety gear to ride an ATV, you need to pick the correct size for your child.
It's very important that your child ride an ATV made for their particular size, and ATV that is too small isn't safe and an ATV that is too powerful can get away from your child and cause injury to themselves or others.
Choosing the correct size ATV for your child isn't rocket science, but takes a little thought. The industry standards are as follows :
If your child is age 6 and older - choose an ATV under 70cc.
If your child is age 12 to 16 - choose an ATV in the range of 70cc-90cc.
If your child is age 16 and older- choose an ATV over 90cc.
It is usually recommended that children under 6 do not participate in the riding of ATVs. Your children should never ride ATVs unsupervised and consider enrolling your children in some ATV safety classes. They will proudly show their Safety Course Diploma to everyone and they will use put the safe ATV riding skills to good use. Additionally, you can use the speed governor and lower the speed of your child's ATV down to 5MPH while they are learning to ride and most models come with a rear tether where an adult can walk behind a young rider and if the ATV starts to be hard to handle for the new rider, the tether can be pulled and the engine will be killed and the ATV stopped.
Riding an ATV is just extremely fun, but safe practices in riding must be learned first and safety must always be a priority. Once your child gets in the habit of being a safe, it will become second nature.
