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12/1500Ok, I'm sold. What is it gonna cost me to get a bike?
12/1500Ok, I'm sold. What is it gonna cost me to get a bike?
There's a nice looking yamaha TTR125 on eBay today £1250 but keep it in good nick and it will still be worth that in five years timeAny ideas what cc would be good for his first bike?
Ooooo I remember my first bike..
Suzuki RM80, what a bike, loved it!
If the wife isn't too happy then go down the trials bike route., Slow, skillful sport. Far cheaper. And safer!
Ok, I'm sold. What is it gonna cost me to get a bike?
Could a restrictor be put in, like on the road bikes, and then removed at a later date when more experienced?I’d go for 80cc with big wheels is as opposed to 125 - some 125’s are lethal
Four stroke 125 are about the same size as a big wheel 85 two stroke but tamer. 125 two strokes are not much different power to an 85 but far bigger frame. Too big for a twelve year old unless he's a giantI’d go for 80cc with big wheels is as opposed to 125 - some 125’s are lethal
Trials bikes are available from £500 that will work in a fashion up to £10k for the latest high tech. Buy cheap and you buy trouble. You won't get anything decent under £1.5k really. Spend £3.5k and you get a relatively modern bike that would be good enough to win a trial in the right hands.Ok, I'm sold. What is it gonna cost me to get a bike?
Honda stopped making two stroke motocross bikes in 2008 and now they're really in demand. I got my lad cr85 off eBay for£800,he had it two years until he outgrew it. Put new plastic for £70 and put it on Facebook for £1350 and had forty people after it within three hours. Should have asked more for it,it was gone cash in hand by dinnertimeThe older classics are really making a lot of money nowadays. We have two in now that will of cost towards £8k to be in the condition they are now.
Great idea! Learn good balance before he has ago at the speed bit@Grassman will supply a quality used trials bike
£1500 I could live with, I wouldn't want to be spending a lot more as its his first bike and prangs are bound to happen!Trials bikes are available from £500 that will work in a fashion up to £10k for the latest high tech. Buy cheap and you buy trouble. You won't get anything decent under £1.5k really. Spend £3.5k and you get a relatively modern bike that would be good enough to win a trial in the right hands.
Great advice Rob, cheers!
That's what I'm hoping, a good thing for a father and son outings. Something I yearned for from my old man. He plays rugby so I make time for taking him to practice /games, but I thought it would be good to tinker over engines, ferrings of an evening rather than him being glued on the xbox!
My wife has turned into a proper mama bear over the subject and isn't keen to say the least!
There's a nice looking yamaha TTR125 on eBay today £1250 but keep it in good nick and it will still be worth that in five years time