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Message: [QUOTE="firecracker22, post: 201751, member: 20316"] No offense taken, we're all entitled to our opinion. I am finding I stand alone on this topic but oh well. I know plenty of girls who hopped on a 125 and (although carefully at first) began riding. Even though I have a 200, I like 125s equally well and may have bought one had I had a chance to ride one before I bought the KTM. They are not as scary as I was led to believe. Everyone told me, and I parroted it back to others when they asked, that 125s are not good trail bikes or beginner bikes. But a beginner isn't going to be riding in the gnarly stuff where a 125 could get out of hand, nor are they going to be pinning the throttle. I am not much more than a beginner--I'm barely at a point where I can let out the throttle without embarrassing myself--and didn't have any more problems handling the YZ and RM 125s I have test ridden than I did my KTM. In fact, the KTM has a gnarly midrange hit that can be deceptive and get you in trouble, where a 125 has to wind up before it wants to run away. I haven't ridden the KDX for comparison but I hear they are smoother, if heavier. An RM and CR 250 were my first two experiences on a two stroke and they didn't scare me, they made me want one. Granted, a 125 isn't for every beginner, or even for very many. But it's an option to be considered. A 125 with shaved seat foam and a flywheel weight would have been great for me to start on looking back but I didn't know that since I had heard so many bad things about them. Oh well, at least I did get started, even if I hated the XR after 4 months. [/QUOTE]

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