Same here. I do hope I'm not around if/when the collision occurs. I'm not against the kids riding per se, it's the fact they're riding them up and down the street, don't stop for stop signs, etc..
When I was a lad, we would ride Honda Mini Trail 50's in our friends yard, (we had fairly large lots). That was alot of fun, and you didn't have to worry about traffic.
Then later when we got BIG motocrossers, we used to 'zip' along suburban roads on the way to our big farmland paradise with 60 mph jumps and endless straights and giant hills. I never got caught. We used to park all our 'legal' bikes around back of the 7/11 and skate out front. And yes, we were customers, we bought Icees.
I'm sooooo glad I grew up in the pre nanny state of parenthood. The best Christmas I ever remember was when my parents drove us all the way to the Big City of Little Rock. My sister and I were kinda jealous because we were going to get my big brother a mini bike much like the one pictured above. Now my parents were on the poor side so I knew it was a big thing for my brother. Boy was I surprised when we came home with 3 bikes. It was dark when we got home and my Dad let use ride from the house to the barn in the truck lights. I rode that thing up and down the highway about a mile to my little town of about 75 souls almost eveyday. No helmet. We learned how to rig the governor to make it run faster. It was a blast. Now I guess my wounderful mom and dad would be endangering our lives and taken to jail. Sorry I disagree with this stupidity of our culture. I wounder how many loads of pulp wood my Dad had to slave over to cut and haul at $15.00 a load to buy us kids those bikes.