Hi,
my boy is 16 in Oct and desperate for a geared bike to use on the road for a year.
The market is small for these and they're limited to 30mph (which seems dangerous??)
The 2 I've been looking at are the Lexmoto Hunter https://www.lexmoto.co.uk/TD50Q-E4.php which is ?1k new, and the Aprilia RS50, which is expensive but available used for 1.5k-?2k with a bit of travel.
I guess my dilemma is the cost and effort to get him set up on this, only for the bike to be redundant in 12 months when he's after a 125.
On the flip side I take opportunities for him to get in to bikes and engines because it's not something I can teach him myself. All I do is ride but for him he's a petrolhead and wants to study mechanical engineering. Riding and maintaining a 50cc for a year then seems like time well spent.
Any opinions either way on these (other than he's spoilt - which he is :encouragement
my boy is 16 in Oct and desperate for a geared bike to use on the road for a year.
The market is small for these and they're limited to 30mph (which seems dangerous??)
The 2 I've been looking at are the Lexmoto Hunter https://www.lexmoto.co.uk/TD50Q-E4.php which is ?1k new, and the Aprilia RS50, which is expensive but available used for 1.5k-?2k with a bit of travel.
I guess my dilemma is the cost and effort to get him set up on this, only for the bike to be redundant in 12 months when he's after a 125.
On the flip side I take opportunities for him to get in to bikes and engines because it's not something I can teach him myself. All I do is ride but for him he's a petrolhead and wants to study mechanical engineering. Riding and maintaining a 50cc for a year then seems like time well spent.
Any opinions either way on these (other than he's spoilt - which he is :encouragement