--- title: Viral Video: Kid Riding Harley Motorcycle description: The world's bravest elementary schooler canonical: https://time.com/71573/kid-rides-harley-video/ author: Matt Vella article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-22T11:45:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:08:58.729Z og:title: Here's a Terrifying Video of a 6-Year-Old Riding a Harley og:description: File this under "questionable parenting" og:url: https://time.com/71573/kid-rides-harley-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's a Terrifying Video of a 6-Year-Old Riding a Harley twitter:description: File this under "questionable parenting" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's a Terrifying Video of a 6 Year Old Riding a Harley by [Matt Vella](https://time.com/author/matt-vella/) ## Matt Vella Apr 22, 2014 11:45 AM UTC by [Matt Vella](https://time.com/author/matt-vella/) ## Matt Vella Apr 22, 2014 11:45 AM UTC File this one under “questionable parenting.” And “insanity.” And “kinda awesome.” YouTube user Jacob Hughes’ above video apparently shows a father and son motorcycle ride—that long cherished bonding ritual—except the son in question is six years old. Sadly, there’s little context for the clip. Its description only says “6-Year-Old Boy Riding Father’s Harley On An Open Road!” It’s hard to say when or where this actually took place. Either way, it’s almost certainly totally illegal. Then again, the family that gets horribly maimed together stays together. Viral Video: Kid Riding Harley Motorcycle ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/71573/kid-rides-harley-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/71573/kid-rides-harley-video/"},"headline":"Here's a Terrifying Video of a 6 Year Old Riding a Harley","datePublished":"2014-04-22T11:45:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:58.729Z","description":"The world's bravest elementary schooler","url":"https://time.com/71573/kid-rides-harley-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Parenting","Death","viral","Autos","motorcycles"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Matt Vella","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/matt-vella/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/71573/kid-rides-harley-video/","name":"Here's a Terrifying Video of a 6 Year Old Riding a Harley"}}]}] ```