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2007 CRF50f just picked it up for $500. Any advice for teaching a 5 year old how to ride would be a huge help.

Thats awesome man! I wish I some advice, but my son is only 3 and just started riding bicycles and he can beat me! I scared of what will happen when he gets on one of those! Congrats.

My advice would be to let him ride when HE wants to and accept it if it turns out not to be his thing. We ended up selling my son's CRF150F and buying him a guitar, amp, etc, since the bike wasn't for him. He's playing the hell out of the guitar now, so it's all good.

Hopefully, your son loves it and you have some great memories coming your way.

Get a set of the training wheels they make for those. Then when he's ready you can take them off and sell them on Ebay. I think those also have a throttle limiter on them so you can allow jr. to only twist so far.

HrcRacing wrote:................ We ended up selling my son's CRF150F

There was the problem.....you should've gotten him a CR85 instead of a 4-stroke.

medic, the best advice I could give you is to make it as fun as possible for him so he always wants to ride. I also found a video of some little kids racing on the training wheels. The kid on the Honda is 4 yrs. old :

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Thanks TY. Awesome video. Those lil dudes are catchin some air. I got his training wheels ordered today. Next is finding riding and safety gear.

I love it when he went through the whoops and his head went to flopping worse the more he crossed. haha They have a class for the little guys at the local track here. They have to keep people all over the track to push them out of the ruts if one of them get into one. The training wheels will hold their wheels off the ground. Kinda like the loop out in the video when he stopped and leaned back.

YES!!!! TEACH HIM TO STOP BEFORE YOU TEACH HIM TO BURN,HE WILL HAVE MORE CONFIDENCE NOWING HE CAN STOP AT ANY TIME,AND GO SLOW!!!HE'LL PICK IT UP ON HIS OWN!!! NO PRESSURE gOOD MAN ,GOOD PROTECTION ALSO, DONT HURT AS BAD!!! WE KNOW KIDS DONT LIKE HURT!!! I HAVE 3 BOYS!!!

I'm gonna get my boys one next summer,can't wait to see them on it

medic201 wrote: Next is finding riding and safety gear.

Ebay ......and if you can find good used gear get it. As fast as kids grow its not worth buying brand new gear.

TYSTYX wrote:

HrcRacing wrote:................ We ended up selling my son's CRF150F

There was the problem.....you should've gotten him a CR85 instead of a 4-stroke.

Right on there.

ditto to the others, and have him sit forward nearer the tank. That'll help keep from going down on his knee.

bsmith wrote:YES!!!! TEACH HIM TO STOP BEFORE YOU TEACH HIM TO BURN,HE WILL HAVE MORE CONFIDENCE NOWING HE CAN STOP AT ANY TIME,AND GO SLOW!!!HE'LL PICK IT UP ON HIS OWN!!! NO PRESSURE gOOD MAN ,GOOD PROTECTION ALSO, DONT HURT AS BAD!!! WE KNOW KIDS DONT LIKE HURT!!! I HAVE 3 BOYS!!!

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I have seen more kids give up riding, due to Dads pressure....