Why are there no quad bike trail riding experiences?

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Hello! I am trying to find a quad bike trail riding/green landing experience for a stag do, but I can’t find any!

I’m looking for a full day out or even a weekend, not an hour or two around an activity centre.

There are several companies offering motorbike days out where you ride green lanes and cover a long distance, but no quad bike ones why is that, does anyone know?

[matjk]

I would guess you would rapidly run out of space, this country is small and mostly privately owned, 2 hours would cover a decent area in the UK, go to NZ or USA and no one cares about wilderness land, you could go for miles, here you will hit a road, houses, towns, farmland or private woodland pretty rapidly, so you would end up going round in circles, be boring and 2 hours is enough.

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For example there are several companies offering days out like this https://www.trailridinguk.com/the-attic-loft

I’m after the quad bike version (only about half my mates have bike licences but you can ride a quad on a car licence).

[AndrewEH1]

I'd suggest that quads are much more unstable especially went being ridden (or driven? ) by novices so would put a lot of operators off due to risk of injuries/claims etc.

[Rudolph Hart]

^^^this, quads are far too dangerous.

Also country folk wouldn’t welcome stag groups ripping up the environment.

[vrsmxtb]

True Grip off-road in Kent offer quads.

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vrsmxtb said:

True Grip off-road in Kent offer quads.

Thank you for the tip :thumbip: The thing is though that they are offering 1 and 2 hours of riding, which isn’t what we are after.

Perhaps it is simply that quads are too easy to crash. It just seems odd that you can have a day out on motorbikes but no one is offering the same routes but on quads.

[V8RX7]

AndrewEH1 said:

I'd suggest that quads are much more unstable especially went being ridden (or driven? ) by novices so would put a lot of operators off due to risk of injuries/claims etc.

This ^^^

I went on an hour one yesterday with my daughter - I'm experienced off road - she isn't and the other riders were 2 middle aged women.

After 5 mins learning the basics we were on a wet slippery track in the woods - great for me but one of the women crashed into a tree, inside 25 meters and was so scared she walked off.

We continued and I thought it was good for active men but it was pretty challenging for the timid. A couple of times I gave it a bit of throttle, it could easily have slid into a tree - I thought I'd want nothing to do with running one even in an open field !