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MidgetTodd

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  1. Fabulous rifle. Keep it unmodified to keep its curio and relics designation and collectibility.

      

    It's your rifle so do as you please, but why would you want to bubba-ize a historical rifle when an AK-47 would be a better platform for an EBR, and you can get them for the same or lower $$ that you'll have in an SKS plus its modifications?

    The SKS isn't really historical or collectible and deff not of high value. Also will not have less in an AK. AKs are pulling very good money, especially now. SKS are cheap, I'm sure he paid 200 or less, the cheapest AK we've sold at the shop lately was 600.

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    Kids don't understand this.  A youngin' will easily understand the fun part, but cannot comprehend the risk until they reach a certain age...and that is going to be a different age for every kid.

    This is true. In my case though, she clearly understands the risks. She has crashed her quad a couple times as well as visited me in the hospital and assisted my recovery from my get offs. On top of that she hears the stories I bring home from work and has been at the station a few times visiting me when a call came in.

    Not all kids get exposure to the bad side but its safe to say mine has seen more of the bad than many adult riders

  3. Slowly around quiet back country roads just a little bit, because it makes me too nervous. Not really expecting danger but its the what if and living with it later if something bad did happen.

      

    Pretty much my thoughts as well.

    I get those thoughts and concerns, I really do. My mom says the same every time she finds out my daughter was on the bike with me.

    Here's the thing though, she's going to do it sooner or later with or without me. I'd rather it be with me because I know my skillset. If not with me she'll get a ride sooner or later from the punk kid at school that thinks he's Matt Maladin or the neighbor boys douche bag father with the Sportster that thinks he's Evil Kanevil.

    She's rode with me for years which in turn has made her a great passenger, there's no one I'd rather have on the back now. She likes to go fast and she knows how to lean. She's been on several of the Coshocton rides and I've passed a number of people here with her on the back because they were going too slow. But again I know my skill and limit as well as her ability.

    Everybody is different and you gotta do what's good for you and your kid but I look at it the same as many do with guns. Expose them to it now under your supervison so there's no urge later when you're not there. Can something happen? Hell yes. I am scared to crash with her but if it happens then atleast we will be together when it happens and we'll go together doing something we love together and I wouldn't want it any other way.

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  4. My daughter has rode with me since she could sit up on her own. In front between me and the tank until she was just too big to fit there anymore then to the back.

    Just around the neighborhood at first then our little town finally longer faster rides when she was good at holding on and leaning and such.

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