Wow bud, you really need a chill pill. Relax. Someone brought some safety concerns and you took issue with it. I agree with you. I'm sitting here watching the neighborhood kids ride around on bikes with no helmet, but I wont let my kids do it. If those brought up on a forum about what kind of bikes to get their kids, I or someone else might bring up, "don't forget the helmets". It's just something to think about, nothing to get all bi&tchy about.
You know your kid, that's great. You want to get a quad for your kid, that's great. I applaud that you want to spend time with him.
Since its a kid, I would get the cheapest possible one, because like someone mentioned, he may not even like it. I would kind of second the power wheels at that age and maybe keep the quad in mind for around 5ish, but that's me.
Oh btw my name is Rob, nice to meet you "sonic6".
Thats great "Rob", however fortunately for me I've have been riding half my life, on and off road, so I know everything there is to know about the perils of riding a bike or any other powered vehicle. A good give away of that would probably be to look at how long I've been a member here, thats usually a good sign of someone with some common sense, I am still alive, I still ride and I'm injury free. So why start assuming i'm going to let my kid tear up and down my road with no helmet or if im going to get him on a 100+ CC 4 wheeler jumping sand dunes? Just because there are idiots out there, it doesnt mean we all are. So before people want to go giving advice, maybe they should put a little more thought into their posts, by lets see, sitcking to the intended post. But no, everyone has to play wise man and regurgitate the same useless crap that they've heard from someone else. Sorry, but thats just plain annoying to me.
And again, before people just start assuming, if anyone bothered to check, a nice power wheel isnt that much cheaper than a gas powered 4 wheeler. Difference? The 4 wheeler's battery doesnt die after 10mins, and isn't 99% plastic. So thanks, I've done all the research I need to do on power wheels.
My names Jason.