I know this is a what bike question, but I wanted the opinion of the Mini-Dads.
My son is 12 years old, 5' and 90lbs. He has been riding a 73 GT80 up till now(since March, limited # of rides). He doesn't have any other experience. This past weekend he really got comfortable and was getting some air on it. That's kind of scary on a 30 year old bike with 2 or 3 inches of travel. :eek: I don't have visions of him MX'ing, we just want to trail ride together. We are going to Colorado in August for a family renunion and want to take bikes so I want to get him a TTR125 to make sure he has a reliable bike out there. I had made my mind up to buy the 125L and then they wheeled out the LE(electric start). I not so much interested in the electric start, in fact the 13lbs it adds is a negative, but the LE has compression clickers for both front and rear suspension. He is tiptoe on the 125L and I'm worried about the extra weight making the bike harder to handle. We will probably do some things to shorten either bike at least temporarily. The LE is about $300 extra.
What do you think?
My son is 12 years old, 5' and 90lbs. He has been riding a 73 GT80 up till now(since March, limited # of rides). He doesn't have any other experience. This past weekend he really got comfortable and was getting some air on it. That's kind of scary on a 30 year old bike with 2 or 3 inches of travel. :eek: I don't have visions of him MX'ing, we just want to trail ride together. We are going to Colorado in August for a family renunion and want to take bikes so I want to get him a TTR125 to make sure he has a reliable bike out there. I had made my mind up to buy the 125L and then they wheeled out the LE(electric start). I not so much interested in the electric start, in fact the 13lbs it adds is a negative, but the LE has compression clickers for both front and rear suspension. He is tiptoe on the 125L and I'm worried about the extra weight making the bike harder to handle. We will probably do some things to shorten either bike at least temporarily. The LE is about $300 extra.
What do you think?