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  • August 24, 2009 at 9:51 am #97061

    corey heather
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    Hey fellas

    Got my son a 2007 JR 50 for his 5th birthday next month.

    He has only just came off training wheels for a pushy and advise in starting them on motorbikes?

    August 24, 2009 at 10:02 am #149919

    Greg
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    When I taught my little bloke he was only four, I just spent time making sure he could work the brake and I had a screw in the throttle to limit the amount of throttle he had. I then had him ride about 3 metres to me and stop and repeated the stop start thing a lot getting further and further apart until he had it down pat. We had one panic when he came to me with dinner plate eyes and panic all over, building speed by the metre I had to grab him and dodge the bike :laugh:

    It seemed to work so I was going to try and teach Moto, but I dont hold much faith :P

    TB

    August 24, 2009 at 10:26 am #149920

    Dean
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    I reckon you would have a better chance with Sam the Labrador:laugh:

    Ollie

    August 24, 2009 at 10:49 am #149928

    corey heather
    Member

    Thanks TB sounds like good advice. Just need to get the little fella a helmet and we are set :)

    August 24, 2009 at 11:04 am #149934

    Bruce Curtis
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    What Tb said, plus both my Kids got the rear wheel up off the ground til they got used to how the throttle works in relation to the engine note, twist =rev noise, roll off = engine slow. Brakes were not a huge issue fortunately both of mine raced club and state BMX at age 4 so brakes were a bit easier, still the front brake was as TB said, then the witches hats in the backyard, with braking points, spend the time and don’t rush them make it fun and you’ll have a better chance of them sticking with it.
    Positive reinforcement works well, unfortunately my daughter prefers Quads, and BMX
    BC

    August 24, 2009 at 11:08 am #149935

    scott bocking
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    My old man made me a rigid, balloon tyre weapon with a 50cc ride-on mower engine mounted to a hand welded cromo frame. Full auto except as soon as you pulled the starter it would move forward:laugh: He gave it to me on 07/07/77. We had a steep grass hill on our property and he said that once I could ride the hill and stop next to a certain tree at the bottom he would start the engine, so I moved further and further up the hill until I could let it run the whole way down and use the brakes to stop next to the marker tree. As soon as I did it once he grabbed the handle and pulled the cord and she fired to life. He explained that the throttle was like a hill, the more you turn it the steeper the hill and off I went. I had a lot of respect for that hill so I had a lot of respect for the throttle. Oh how times have changed.:)

    August 24, 2009 at 11:36 am #149937

    Fez
    Member

    I did a similiar thing as TB with the staight line and stop routine. The only thing I can tell you to look out for is when ya young bloke yells out watch this dad and heads for the slippery dip at full throttle. Not good. But if you look more scared than he is he my be scared off it for good.

    August 24, 2009 at 10:40 pm #149940

    Mick D
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    I used a similar method to STM’s dad. I got them used to the bike first by pushing them around with the engine off,just so as to get used to the controls.Then I let them coast down our drive way and stop.
    Then once they got enough confidence with stopping the bike,I started the engine and made them ride about 3 meters at a time in a straight line and stop,then we kept repeating the process until they were confident to turn the bike around a witch’s hat and return back the 3 meters.

    August 24, 2009 at 11:09 pm #149964

    Anonymous

    All the above sounds like good advice to me. I don’t know where you live Corey but if you could get your nipper to one of Dave’s (Ktmrat’s) schools that may be a big help to too. Learning with some other kiddies might have benefits in itself :)

    August 25, 2009 at 10:56 am #149970

    Eric Smith
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    Moto wrote:

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    All the above sounds like good advice to me. I don’t know where you live Corey but if you could get your nipper to one of Dave’s (Ktmrat’s) schools that may be a big help to too. Learning with some other kiddies might have benefits in itself :)

    :ohmy: :ohmy: :ohmy:

    Moto, you have excelled yourself! There is actually some fairly good advice there! I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit! Sorry, that was unexpected! :laugh: :laugh:

    August 25, 2009 at 11:52 am #150151

    Greg
    Member

    ECKS-Man wrote:

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    Moto wrote:

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    All the above sounds like good advice to me. I don’t know where you live Corey but if you could get your nipper to one of Dave’s (Ktmrat’s) schools that may be a big help to too. Learning with some other kiddies might have benefits in itself :)

    :ohmy: :ohmy: :ohmy:

    Moto, you have excelled yourself! There is actually some fairly good advice there! I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit! Sorry, that was unexpected! :laugh: :laugh:

    Now ECKS that’s hard on Moto :( , for gods sake he has done 5991 posts he was bound to a good caring decent community based post that made sense at some stage :P

    TB

    Hope I can do one soon myself

    August 26, 2009 at 8:37 am #150161

    shane
    Member

    Ah ‘dinner plate eyes’. I’ve looked through them a few times. I got nothing.

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