The most obvious difference between a kid’s ATV and an adult ATV is size, of course. This is so that children can drive their ATVs comfortably without having to stretch their backs on an adult ATV and their feet can touch the ground. Letting a child or tween drive an adult ATV is dangerous and you, as a parent, should warn children about driving an adult ATV without supervision or permission. It’s dangerous even for tweens, so give them a short tutorial on ATV driving safety guidelines. The rule governing the use of ATVs is that children under the age of 16 should NEVER ride in an adult ATV.
The ATV seems like such an easy machine to ride that there shouldn’t be a big fuss about letting kids ride it, are you saying? No, that’s not true. It takes a lot of skill and physical coordination to drive an adult-sized ATV.
So if your kids are interested, get them their very own kid’s ATV.
In addition to size, the adult-sized ATV is considerably heavier than a child’s ATV. This is partly due to the size of the machine and the difference in the material used when producing the ATVs. Adult ATVs are faster than kid’s ATVs, and it goes without saying that we don’t want our kids speeding over dangerous terrain if they aren’t already trained to do so. Only adults with some kind of education, training and guidance can drive ATVs like that. So please don’t leave our kids in adult size ATVs.
Adult ATVs come with many more cool features that are not present in kids ATVs and just because of this fact our kids might think ours is much cooler and beg us to get them one for adults. But don’t. The features are not present on kids ATVs because these features are not suitable for children.
On the other hand, kids ATVs come with a different set of features: safety features. These features help parents keep tabs on their kids in the midst of all that action. Some children’s ATVs also come with features that ensure that parents can intervene when children are in danger. These are extremely useful. Safety features include larger brake pedals, larger mirrors, smaller handles for smaller hands, etc. some models also come with a remote-controlled emergency brake, which means that if the child is having trouble stopping their kid’s ATV, parents within a certain distance (such as if they were behind their child) can press a button on a remote control to stop the vehicle. This is a very nice feature to have, indeed.