my neighborhood streets are overrun with these 'toys'.

Wired News: Speedy, Tiny and Troublesome

"Whizzing down the street just inches from the pavement, Vincent Walstra looks like a big kid getting away with his little brother's pint-size bike. Arms and legs straddling the shiny yellow two-wheeler, Walstra knows he looks silly, but he's having fun on his new toy -- a shrunken-down motorcycle commonly referred to as a "pocket bike."


i posted a letter to pittsburgh tv station WPXI about this issue just yesterday. this is more dangerous than kids on bicycles