. aparently it was his first and last ride on the mighty yz80 http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=218&ad ... earch=yz80
kid sees god while riding yz80
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kid sees god while riding yz80
whipper snapper experienced the power of the powerband . aparently it was his first and last ride on the mighty yz80
http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=218&ad ... earch=yz80
. aparently it was his first and last ride on the mighty yz80 http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=218&ad ... earch=yz80
kid sees god while riding yz80
Seen this happen first hand . . .
Years ago, a mate at work asked me to find a good YZ80 for his 10 year old son, as Dad thought he was ready to master a manual clutch. This poor kid was gonna get off a PeeWee80, onto a YZ ! I begged my mate to re-think it, get a DT125, or a DS80, or even a 4 stroke God help us, anything excepy a peaky-as-fuck race oriented 80 ! Nah, wouldn't be swayed, so I bought a nice old YZ80, rebuilt it all, and dropped it around to his house. I said, "watch this" before I handed it over, rode down the streeet, then screamed back past him, 6 gears worth with the front wheel airfreighted the whole way ! "Are you sure you want to put your son on that ? Again, he was adamant . . . . .
Kid rode it once, and hasn't ridden a bike since (bought a Chinese quad, if I remember rightly), and Dad rode it once, crashed it through his neighbours fence whilst flapping off the back like laundry on a windy day . . . . . Some people just can't be told what's good for 'em. These things don't have that much power, but they deliver it pretty explosively. Add that to the short wheelbase . . . . .
Years later, I bought myself a KTM SX50 Pro, to ride when we'd had a couple too many beers, and a proper bike was a bit dangerous . . . .Fuck, I lost track of how many times I crashed that bloody thing, still got the scars today !
Years ago, a mate at work asked me to find a good YZ80 for his 10 year old son, as Dad thought he was ready to master a manual clutch. This poor kid was gonna get off a PeeWee80, onto a YZ ! I begged my mate to re-think it, get a DT125, or a DS80, or even a 4 stroke God help us, anything excepy a peaky-as-fuck race oriented 80 ! Nah, wouldn't be swayed, so I bought a nice old YZ80, rebuilt it all, and dropped it around to his house. I said, "watch this" before I handed it over, rode down the streeet, then screamed back past him, 6 gears worth with the front wheel airfreighted the whole way ! "Are you sure you want to put your son on that ? Again, he was adamant . . . . .
Kid rode it once, and hasn't ridden a bike since (bought a Chinese quad, if I remember rightly), and Dad rode it once, crashed it through his neighbours fence whilst flapping off the back like laundry on a windy day . . . . . Some people just can't be told what's good for 'em. These things don't have that much power, but they deliver it pretty explosively. Add that to the short wheelbase . . . . .
Years later, I bought myself a KTM SX50 Pro, to ride when we'd had a couple too many beers, and a proper bike was a bit dangerous . . . .Fuck, I lost track of how many times I crashed that bloody thing, still got the scars today !
