roccoracer
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It is a 2006 Yamaha TT-R 50.
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My son's 6th birthday gift.
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It is a 2006 Yamaha TT-R 50.
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Damn! I think I got a glow in the dark yoyo for my 6th. Nice work Dad.
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Romokid
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NICE!! When my boys were 6 & 7 we bought them a CRF50 and a CRF70 for Christmas. The expression on their faces was priceless. Then my wife and I realized that the fat man in the red suit got all the credit until they were old enough to know that we were Santa. Now they have upgraded to a KX250F & CRF250R that they bought and are now looking at trucks. Enjoy them while they are young.
roccoracer
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I am a lucky man. My parents did not have any money growing up so toys like this could not happen. But my parents taught me that hard work and personal responsibility will pay off and I started working at 14. All of the money I earned during the summer could be used on toys etc. I even payed my parents rent 3 or 4 times. Now I am nearly 40 and have an awesome career and the ability to teach my kids (3) that hard work and personal responsibility will pay off and I can get them some of the toys.
It just feels good.
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dcmdon
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Rocco - does that thing really have inverted forks? Or do they just try to make it look that way?
Centrifugal clutch?
I got my first bike when I was 9, an RM80.
My sister wanted to ride realy really bad. So she ended up with a Suzuki JR50. The classic little kid bike. I think they still make it, pretty much unchanged from 20 years ago.
Don
Centrifugal clutch?
I got my first bike when I was 9, an RM80.
My sister wanted to ride realy really bad. So she ended up with a Suzuki JR50. The classic little kid bike. I think they still make it, pretty much unchanged from 20 years ago.
Don
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There's a big age difference between me and my 3 younger brothers. The first mini bike that I got them was to share. The two oldest got the youngest on it, picked up the rear end and told him to crack the throttle. He did. They let the rear end hit the ground and he was off and running. Right in to a tree and broke his arm. Mom was unhappy with me. We went through 4 or 5 mini bikes before they figured out how not to crash into trees and ruin them.
This was my daughters 4th birthday present. Suzuki JR50.
She's 7 now and on a Suzuki quad sport 50. Little better for the rocky trails we ride.
She's 7 now and on a Suzuki quad sport 50. Little better for the rocky trails we ride.
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Those are actual inverted forks but they're oilless. If it's anything like CRf version, it's a 3 speed with an auto clutch.
roccoracer
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It is a 3 speed with an auto clutch.
dcmdon
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Thats very high tech.
I just pulled up pics of a 78 JR50 and a 2006 JR 50 and NOTHING has changed in 28 years except the styling of the plastic.
Yours looks much more modern.
I just pulled up pics of a 78 JR50 and a 2006 JR 50 and NOTHING has changed in 28 years except the styling of the plastic.
Yours looks much more modern.
Dcmdon: Don't make any mistakes.. the TTR50 is a brilliant starter bike, but there is EXACTLY NOTHING even resembling high tech about it! 
You want high tech, for a kids bike, KTM is where you go. My son is 6 and got his first PW50 when he was still 1 (yes, my wife was "thrilled"). He is on KTMs now and his 5 year old KTM 50 SX has disc brakes, an adjustable auto clutch, compression and rebound adjustment. They are basically just big bikes put in to Rick Moranis' shrink ray... though the price escaped the shrink ray.. go figure.
You want high tech, for a kids bike, KTM is where you go. My son is 6 and got his first PW50 when he was still 1 (yes, my wife was "thrilled"). He is on KTMs now and his 5 year old KTM 50 SX has disc brakes, an adjustable auto clutch, compression and rebound adjustment. They are basically just big bikes put in to Rick Moranis' shrink ray... though the price escaped the shrink ray.. go figure.
roccoracer
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Very interesting suspension setup.
By the way Rocco racer.. if you can, save your pennies and get yourself a KLX 110, a tall seat and tall bars and you can ride with your son. I dare you to have more fun. Err.. at least with your kid.
Err.. at least with your kid.
roccoracer
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Awesome!
dcmdon
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Thats awesome.
I was about to write "now I wish I had a son". But damnit. my daughter loves to shoot. Its my parental responsibility to introduce her to motorcycles.
As an aside. I raced dirtbikes from the age of 10, then started roadracing at 16, all with my parents blessing. (my dad raced)
But when I bought a street bike at 18, my parents FREAKED OUT.
"I don't want to find out you died on the hood of a car because some a55h0le isn't paying attention" he'd say.
I agreed to never use it for transportation. What he didn't know was that I was (and still am) deathly afraid of cars.
Don
I was about to write "now I wish I had a son". But damnit. my daughter loves to shoot. Its my parental responsibility to introduce her to motorcycles.
As an aside. I raced dirtbikes from the age of 10, then started roadracing at 16, all with my parents blessing. (my dad raced)
But when I bought a street bike at 18, my parents FREAKED OUT.
"I don't want to find out you died on the hood of a car because some a55h0le isn't paying attention" he'd say.
I agreed to never use it for transportation. What he didn't know was that I was (and still am) deathly afraid of cars.
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Having never ridden before I've been thinking of trying them out for awhile being that I'm not that far from them.
