Junior motocross

[civil]

The trail class is the one for you. Up to 100cc 4 stroke. Big range of abilities in this class. My 12yo daughter has been riding in it for a few years now.

[Nicola W]

OK so i took my Girl Christanna out for her first ride on Sunday.
For someone who has only got on a little pocket bike 3 times i was quite impressed.

We took off down the domain and i got her to put all her gear showed her the controls front brake, back brake, throttle, kill switch.
I showed her how to mount the CRF70 by grabbing both handle bars engaging the front brake all sweet. Without the bike running we went over all the controls again and made sure she could operate them.
I started the bike up and engaged first gear (the bike has a centrafugal clutch so its not going anywhere at idle) after explaining that anything above idle makes the bike go forward i got her to hop on and told her to go for a blat working the front and back brakes.
After about 30minutes of reving the shit out of the bike and gaining confidence in 1st gear she grabs a big gob of front brake loses the front and cans off i see if shes alright and ask her if she wants to keep on practicing "yeah dad" as if its a dumb question shes off again

Long story short, within 3 hrs shes changing gear up and down and tryin to do jumps on the incline between to fields .
To say im a proud dad would be an understatement.

Where do we go from here as far as a club is concerned, i figure theres alot more people that can contribute to her learning good habits and having fun on the dirt than her road racer dad can.

Great news!

Makes you feel really proud doesn’t it?

Make sure she has LOTS of bike time to get used to it and enjoy it. I know of a child who was put into MX racing quite fast after starting to learn to ride and it damaged his confidence a bit. I'm not saying that will happen with your daughter as the trail riding classes are slower paced here but just thought I’d tell you.