New Bike

[motocross3]

1) your physical size (both height and weight are important)
5'7 130 pounds

2) How physical / aggressive are you ?
medium to fully aggressive

3) what do you plan to ride- MX/SX tracks, woods, fields with friends or ?????
a little of everything

4) Do you have any riding experience?
3 years

5) Do you think you will race ?
yes

6) Are you mechanically inclined and will you be doing your own bike work?
yes

7) Do YOU have a preferance to a brand/ motor choice (2 or 4 stroke)?
i would prefer a 4 stroke but will consider 2

8) Do you have a dealer close by your home that you might use and what brand(s) does he carry?
KTM, Yamaha, Kawasaki, Honda everything except suziki

9) How much ($) do you plan to spend on a bike?
2,000 but im want to buy it used

10) Do you live in California?
no

11) Your age?
16

12) anything else that you think would help form an opinion
just coming off of KX80 and would like to upgrade to a bigger bike

 

[XRpredator]

pick your favorite color, and probably start on a 125. Two grand will get you a pretty decent late model 125. When you are confident in your maintenance abilities, then look into a 250F.

Too many people jump to the 250F and complain about how they are expensive to own, mostly because they don't perform normal maintenance and just run them until they blow up real good. You can run the bejeebers out of a 125, seize it up, then let it cool off and start all over again :|