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[QUOTE="j_freak, post: 742924, member: 51029"] The kid is 7 and wants to start racing??? I'm sorry but that is way to early for a kid to be racing. Especially on modern minibikes, which have way too much power for a kid that age. I realize that a lot of people here won't agree with me, but I've seen a lot of kids that age getting injured riding LAWN MOWERS and and go-carts (my little brother nearly lost his eye when he ran through an electric fence on a go cart). I'm sixteen and my first "dirtbike" was one of those little 3hp tecumsehs with a centrifigual clutch that I got when I was around 8. Featuring a quality pullstarter that took about 20 pulls to get it started, and a top speed of approximately 12 mph, it was a pain in the butt to ride. Although I have zero experience with modern minibikes, I am sure that they are much easier to ride. But, I can almost guarantee that they are a lot faster and a lot more dangerous (it's rather hard to hurt oneself on a bike that can't make it up medium sized hills, and can't go faster than your average glacier (hmm, now that I think about it, that description matches my current piece of crap too: a 1975 Honda MR175 Elsinore)) My point is that a kid that young is going to get hurt on a racetrack. Mild trail rides and maybe a track in the backyard would be great, but save the racing until he's a teen. [/QUOTE]
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