Teaching my boy

[corey heatherMember]

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?

[GregMember]

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

TB

[DeanMember]

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

Ollie

[corey heatherMember]

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

[Bruce CurtisMember]

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

[scott bockingMember]

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.

[FezMember]

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.

[Mick DMember]

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.

[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

[Eric SmithMember]

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

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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:

[GregMember]

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

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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

TB

Hope I can do one soon myself

[shaneMember]

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

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