All right guys my daughters 10 will be 11 in July. She really wants to start riding more. She has been riding my 85 LT250EF farm quad for awhile. I have an 87 TRX250X in great shape we've owned since 92, I was thinking about her riding it and I think it's too heavy and tippy for her yet. An LT80 seems to small, she's 4'8" 88lbs. I was thinking a blaster, I found a near mint 89 for $800 obo still has the grey plastic and seafoam green seat and hood. What do you guys think for a quad for her?
This is her just after her 8th birthday on the zilla
I had a Moto-4 80 from 4 to about 10 at which point I got a Suzuki 250 Quadsport. Thing was a blast until I got my TRX at 15.
Yamaha blaster 200 s stroke oil injected. Its the motor from the IT200. Nice little air cooled runner in the mid size range.. teaches them to shift and use a clutch and i can actually kick start it with my hand.
I have one my kids rode for a few years when I was first learning but it has literally been in a shed for 17 years. I pulled the covers off it...put the tires on it..added fuel and it started on the 3rd kick. Cant decide if I should sell it as we all grew to bigger more powerful machines......or...I may put it back in storage for 5 more years until my grand kids are old enough to ride......I would recommend a blaster,
+1 on the moto4 80 I ran that thing hard and even went into the lake with it and it still ran good.
Looks like $500.00 of fun to me. Im sure they will drop the price. Nice little bike
That thing looks barely ridden I started riding a blaster when I was 9 I was probably 15 lbs lighter than your daughter. Get her that bike for $650-$700 and its a good deal and she'll likely be able to drive a manual transmission in a car by learning so young how a clutch works that's what taught me.
My wife's cousin had a nice little blaster. One nice upgrade is a rear disk break kit. He changed the kits lines for something more sturdy and ran the hell out of it. The local Amsoil dealer had a big bore kit on his. I think it's a 230 and it will give a stock 250 a run.
I like the blaster for what it is. A great trail toy.
Daughter's cute badmoon. Todd's daughter's are cute and he know what that means.
My daughter is the same age she is on her 2nd chinese quad and out growing it. Last week i was looking at the raptor 125 they look like a nice quad for a kid that age. got to save up some more $$$$$$ though.
Dude, get her a newer blaster with hydraulic disk brakes, they're a little harder to find and a little more expensive, but definitely worth it.
Those crappy bicycle brakes will wear out her hands pretty quick, they're hard to keep adjusted right, and there's no way to take out all the slack.
There are conversions for older blasters, and you can even retrofit banshee brakes to the blaster, but it gets expensive real quick.
Other than that, banshee shocks on the front with the widest a-arms you can find, 250R shock on the rear, banshee axle for +3 width, LT250 carb, and a shearer pipe.
Total for all that stuff on my wife's blaster was extremely cheap compared to doing the same stuff on a 250 or 500, and it made a huge difference...not even the same bike I started out with.
There's a lot more you can do to the engine for more power, but the 250 carb and the shearer pipe made the powerband a lot more consistent and easy to ride.