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Horsepower on a 2001 xr50r?
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[QUOTE="stormer94, post: 125210, member: 23528"] One Dollar, Don't do the PW or the JR. Having experienced both with new riders, the XR is the way to go for fun, and #1 for safety. Here's an example. My daughter had been riding her's for about a day (riding laps around the house). She had mastered the basics, start, stop, shift, even how to choke it, start it, put up the kickstand, etc. We have a small track in the yard and we also live kind of on a hill. I mentioned that she had been improving, and asked if she wanted to just ride around on the track. She said sure, so I put her on the track and let her ride. I told her to give it just a bit more gas going up hills (little 3 foot mounds of dirt) and to let off going down, and she did that just perfect for about 10 minutes. Then all of a sudden I notice her go up one hill, then accelerate down the hill, and you could hear that she wasn't letting off:scream: She rolled over the next 2-3 obsticles gaining speed and finally shot off the track, caught about 2 feet of air and dissapeared down the big hill in the yard that we live on. I heard the engine gain speed and then rap and hold wide open, which is the universal sound for "the bike is laid over and the throttle is jammed into the dirt". I ran over to the hill expecting to see the bike in a heap, daughter in a heap, broken bones, tears in eyes, ranting about never wanting to ride again... I was figuring that I just ruined her for life. I got to the top of the hill, looked down and there she was at the bottom of the hill, still on the bike, sitting there with the bike idling like nothing had happened. I went up to her, pretending nothing was out of the ordinary, no sense spooking her with stories about how she had just missed a 3 foot boulder by about an inch. I asked her, "what are you doing down here". She just looked at the foot peg and brake lever and said, "it wouldn't stop". Seems she temporarily forgot that to slow you let off on the throttle, not pull it harder. I also found out, that she went down the entire hill looking at her foot, making sure she was trying to hit the break, didn't even see where she was going. To make a long story short, she was on the xr50r, and in first gear. This means that in this case, even though she screwed up and forgot how the gas worked, she was not able to go much faster than about 12mph. Had she been on the fully automatic PW or similar, she would have been going 40mph before she got to the bottom of the hill. THAT, would not have ended as positively. Pretty scarey stuff... In my opinion, kids should learn on bikes that require a shift. If you're not ready to shift, you're not ready to go fast, on purpose or accidentally. Worst case scenario, they can only go 12mph in first, and also have the advantage of full power and torque to ride up hills and learn the bike. She rides it in second, never shifting and has a ball. Her skill is up, and now she rides up and down the big hill (for fun) that she nearly crashed on. Bob [/QUOTE]
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