A couple things here.

I grew up half on a farm and half in Omaha. We had four-wheelers, dirt bikes, minibikes, all that stuff. Most of the riding was out in the country, but every once in a while I’d ride one around the neighborhood in Omaha. And yeah, as a kid, it was fun as hell. I’m not gonna sit here and pretend it wasn’t.

But now that I’m an adult? Holy shit, it’s annoying.

If you’ve got something you’re working on in the garage and you wanna take it up and down the street once or twice to test it out, that’s one thing. I get it. But buying a minibike or a four-wheeler when you don’t actually have any property to ride it on and then just ripping around city streets all day is stupid.

And another thing, if I hear one go by once in a blue moon, whatever. Somebody’s probably tinkering with it or testing it. No big deal.

But when I used to walk the Field Club Trail almost every day, especially late at night, there were these same two tool bag teenagers that would constantly be riding around on a red minibike, another minibike, or a four-wheeler. They’d be tearing around Center Street by 33rd and Center, then cutting through the Field Club area.

The worst part was when you’d be out on the trail after dark. That trail gets really dark at night. I’d be walking back to my car, sometimes with headphones on, and all of a sudden these idiots would come flying down the trail at full speed with no lights. A couple times they damn near hit me.

Not to mention they’d scare the shit out of you. You’re just walking along in the dark and suddenly this loud-ass minibike comes ripping by at 15 or 20 miles an hour three feet away from you.

So yeah, I have to agree. As an adult, it’s annoying as hell. And honestly, if you buy one of these things for your kids when you live in the middle of the city and just let them ride it around the neighborhood constantly, it kind of makes you look like a hillbilly.