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Yamaha MX & Off-Road Dirt Bikes
1st Bike for a 6-year old? (XR50 or JR50 or PW50)
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[QUOTE="xr400xr50r, post: 457384, member: 25101"] in June of '01 we bought our 4 year old an XR50.....he rode the p!ss outta that bike till August of '02. Now he's 5 and we bought a '00 KX60...bone stock. The bike is too big (he's learned about finding a hill to stop and get a leg down). He's still keeping in the bottom 3 gears unless on a long straight away...then he'll hit 6th. Anyhow, the XR50 is by far the best for any type of trail riding (gobs of low end torque), is almost maint. free (only changing the oil and checking chain tension), teaches the principles of shifting, cost only slightly more than the PW or JR (buy an almost new '02 XR50 for the same price as a new '03 JR or PW), and there are buttloads of mods for the XR...pro MX'ers and BMX'ers race these bikes and they haul. Is it a racing bike? Nope, but i will say that at the local track, a kid on a stock '01 XR is hitting a small 12 foot double like nothin'! All of the above is just my opinion, and you know what they say about opinions..... but, to do it over again, if your kid isn't gonna be racing, i'd get the XR....if racing, I would get Cobra, Polini, KTM, LEM or other ...not a PW or JR....you just don't get enough bang for yer buck (again, imo) here's my kid's XR and KX sites: [url]http://www.81x.com/xr400xr50r/MX[/url] [url]http://www.81x.com/xr400xr50r/kx60[/url] [/QUOTE]
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